Starving the Oceans
Nutrients increasingly moving to the deep ocean with strong climate warming could lead to drastic drops in surface ocean life and fishery yields.
MicroBooNE, Machine Learning, and Liquid Argon
The MicroBooNE experiment demonstrates the use of machine learning to interpret images made by a liquid-argon particle detector.
ArgoNeuT Hits a Home Run with Measurements of Neutrinos in Liquid Argon
Scientists developed a method to better distinguish the tracks that particles leave behind in liquid argon.
Observing Clouds in Four Dimensions
Six cameras are revolutionizing observations of shallow cumulus clouds.
Rapid Lake Draining on Ice Sheets Changes How Water Moves in Unexpected Ways
Widespread fracturing during lake drainage triggers vertical shafts to form that affect the Greenland Ice Sheet.
New Historical Emissions Trends Estimated with the Community Emissions Data System
The data system will allow for more detailed, consistent, and up-to-date global emissions trends that will aid in understanding aerosol effects.
New Method Knocks Out Yeast Genes with Single-Point Precision
Researchers can precisely study how different genes affect key properties in a yeast used industrially to produce fuel and chemicals.
Deep Learning for Electron Microscopy
Artificial intelligence on Summit to discover atomic-scale structures.
Clarifying Rates of Methylmercury Production
New model provides more accurate estimates of how fast microbes produce a mercury-based neurotoxin.
How to Best Predict Chemical Reactions of Contaminants in Water
Scientists determine the accuracy of computational methods used to study the sulfate radical approach to purifying water.
Small Particles Play Large Role in Tropical Thunderstorms
Ultrafine aerosol particles produce bigger storm clouds and more precipitation than larger aerosols in pristine conditions.
Ice Formed by Contact Freezing: Pressure Matters, Not Just Temperature
Distortion of water droplet surface may increase the likelihood of the droplet freezing.
Subtlety and the Selective Art of Separating Lanthanides
Unexpected molecular interactions involving water clusters have a subtle, yet profound, effect on extractants picking their targets.
Review Examines the Science and Needs of Nitrogen-Based Transformations
Advances in biochemistry and catalysis could lead to faster, greener nitrogen-rich fertilizer.
New Technology Consistently Identifies Proteins from a Dozen Cells
A new platform melding microfluidics and robotics allows more in-depth bioanalysis with fewer cells than ever before.
Optimal Foraging: How Soil Microbes Adapt to Nutrient Constraints
How microbial communities adjust to nutrient-poor soils at the genomic and proteomic level gives scientists insights into land use.
Rising Stars Seek to Learn from the Master: Mother Nature
A trio of scientists was recognized for their early career successes in uncovering how microbes produce fuel, insights that could change our energy portfolio
How Plant Cells Decide When to Make Oil
Signaling mechanism details discovered, potentially leading to strategies to engineer plants that make more bio-oil.
Cryocooler Cools an Accelerator Cavity
Researchers demonstrated cryogen-free operation of a superconducting radio-frequency cavity that might ease barriers to its use in societal applications.
Shining Light on the Separation of Rare Earth Metals
New studies identify key molecular characteristics to potentially separate rare earth metals cleanly and efficiently with light.
Placing Atoms for Optimum Catalysts
Precise positioning of oxygens could help engineer faster, more efficient energy-relevant chemical transformations.
How to Make Soot and Stardust
Scientists unlock mystery that could help reduce emissions of fine particles from combustion engines and other sources.
Discovered: Optimal Magnetic Fields Suppress Instabilities in Tokamak Plasmas
U.S. and Korean scientists show how to find and use beneficial 3-D field perturbations to stabilize dangerous edge-localized modes in plasma.
Carbon Nanotubes Give Two Excitons for the Price of One
Efficient generation of photon pairs from modified carbon nanotubes shows path to new types of light sources.
Beautiful Higgs Decays
CMS observes Higgs boson decays into bottom quarks, furthering our knowledge of how the particles that make up matter behave.