Each year, scientists with the Office of Science, at our national laboratories, and supported by the Office of Science at the nation’s colleges and universities, publish thousands of research findings in the scientific literature. About 200 of these are selected annually by their respective program areas in the Office of Science as publication highlights of special note.
For the archive of past publication highlights, click here.
April 5, 2022
Cancer Countermeasures on a Column
University researchers produce a novel method of shipping the promising medical isotope Astatine-211
March 30, 2022
Taming the Plasma Edge: Reducing Instabilities in Tokamaks
An operating mode called wide pedestal quiescent H-mode allows tokamak operation without detrimental edge instabilities.
March 28, 2022
Remote-Sensing Observations in the Arctic Offer New Insights Into Ice Particles
Six years of radar data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility site in Utqiaġvik, Alaska provide important details on how secondary ice particles form in Arctic clouds.
March 24, 2022
Probing the Inner Workings of High-Fidelity Quantum Processors
Scientists use gate set tomography to discover and validate a silicon qubit breakthrough.
March 22, 2022
Searching for Mach Waves Inside a Perfect Liquid
Researchers develop a 2D tomography technique that will enable the search for Mach waves in the smallest droplets of quark-gluon plasma.
March 18, 2022
Collisions of “Isobars” Produce Surprising Result
The search for “broken symmetry” may offer new insight into nuclear structure.
March 16, 2022
Arsenic Makes Black Phosphorus Hop for Energy Efficiency
Arsenic doping dramatically improves the ability of black phosphorous to convert heat into electricity.
March 14, 2022
New Genome Editing Tools Can Edit Within Microbial Communities
Two new technologies allow scientists to edit specific species and genes within complex laboratory bacterial communities.
March 11, 2022
Anyons Found! Best Evidence Yet for these Long-Sought Quasi-Particles
New experiment finds evidence of a collective behavior of electrons to form particle-like quantum objects called “anyons.”
March 9, 2022
Spotting Accelerator-Produced Neutrinos in a Cosmic Haystack
Ground-breaking image reconstruction and analysis algorithms filter out cosmic rays to pinpoint elusive neutrinos.