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    A battery's hopping ions remember where they've been

    A battery's hopping ions remember where they've been

    Scientists discover that ions hopping through a battery electrolyte can reverse direction in response to a jolt of voltage and briefly return to their previous positions - .the first indication that the ions remembered, in a sense, where they had just been.

    Methane Emissions from Wetlands Increase Significantly over High Latitudes

    Methane Emissions from Wetlands Increase Significantly over High Latitudes

    Wetlands are Earth's largest natural source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is about 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere. A research team analyzed wetland methane emissions data across the entire Boreal-Arctic region and found that these emissions have increased approximately nine percent since 2002.

    Scientists Locate the Missing Mass Inside the Proton

    Scientists Locate the Missing Mass Inside the Proton

    A proton's core consists of three valence quarks, but they contribute only a small fraction of the proton's mass. Most of the mass emerges from intricate quark dynamics and is primarily governed by the strong force mediated by gluons.

    Argonne scientists use AI  to identify new materials for carbon capture

    Argonne scientists use AI to identify new materials for carbon capture

    Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used new generative AI techniques to propose new metal-organic framework materials that could offer enhanced abilities to capture carbon

    Uncovering insights about prostate cancer risk and genetic ancestry

    Uncovering insights about prostate cancer risk and genetic ancestry

    Argonne National Laboratory researchers have made new discoveries about the risks of prostate cancer in people with different genetic backgrounds.

    Researchers Directly Detect Interactions Between Viruses and their Bacterial Hosts in Soils

    Researchers Directly Detect Interactions Between Viruses and their Bacterial Hosts in Soils

    Bacteriophages are common in soil ecosystems, but many of these phages and the bacteria they target have not been identified.

    CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards

    CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards

    Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational models running on high-performance computing systems at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team's findings will provide a better understanding of seismic hazards in the Golden State.

    How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology

    How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology

    By studying how CRISPR-Cas works, scientists can predict and design where these tools modify DNA.

    Results from South Pole Telescope's new camera emerge

    Results from South Pole Telescope's new camera emerge

    A newly published study led by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory details early measurements from a new camera at the South Pole Telescope.

    New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites

    New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites

    In a win for chemistry, inventors at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing an exceptionally tough carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer and later recovering all of its starting materials.

    Protecting the Protector Boosts Plant Oil Content

    Protecting the Protector Boosts Plant Oil Content

    Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new way to boost the oil content of plant leaves and seeds.

    Gluon Spins Align with the Proton They're In

    Gluon Spins Align with the Proton They're In

    Scientists have new evidence that gluons have a positive spin polarization, meaning the spins of individual gluons are aligned in the same direction as the spin of the proton they are in.

    Getting to know the  ​'ghost' inside batteries

    Getting to know the ​'ghost' inside batteries

    Argonne researchers have shed important new light on what the early signs of battery failure look like.

    Artificially intelligent software provides a detailed look at jets of plasma used to treat cancer

    Artificially intelligent software provides a detailed look at jets of plasma used to treat cancer

    Artificially intelligent software has been developed to enhance medical treatments that use jets of electrified gas known as plasma. Developed by researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the George Washington University, the computer code predicts the chemicals emitted by cold atmospheric plasma devices, which can be used to treat cancer and sterilize surfaces.

    Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome

    Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome

    To improve bioproducts productivity, researchers have engineered the genome of E. coli to make it immune to viral infections.

    In a Warming World, Climate Scientists Consider Category 6 Hurricanes

    In a Warming World, Climate Scientists Consider Category 6 Hurricanes

    For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74 - 95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of 158 mph or greater). But as increasing ocean temperatures contribute to ever more intense and destructive hurricanes, climate scientists wondered whether the open-ended Category 5 is sufficient to communicate the risk of hurricane damage in a warming climate.

    Magnesium Protects Tantalum, a Promising Material for Making Qubits

    Magnesium Protects Tantalum, a Promising Material for Making Qubits

    Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that adding a layer of magnesium improves the properties of tantalum, a superconducting material that shows great promise for building qubits, the basis of quantum computers.

    Watching the Enzymes that Convert Plant Fiber into Simple Sugars

    Watching the Enzymes that Convert Plant Fiber into Simple Sugars

    Research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and UC Davis sheds new light on how to access the sugars locked up in plants to produce petroleum-free fuels, chemicals, and medicines.

    Direct View of Tantalum Oxidation that Impedes Qubit Coherence

    Direct View of Tantalum Oxidation that Impedes Qubit Coherence

    Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have used a combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and computational modeling to get a closer look and deeper understanding of tantalum oxide.

    Improving Climate Predictions by Unlocking the Secrets of Soil Microbes

    Improving Climate Predictions by Unlocking the Secrets of Soil Microbes

    A team of scientists led by Berkeley Lab has developed a new model that incorporates genetic information from microbes.

    Machine Learning Techniques Enhance the Discovery of Excited Nuclear Levels in Sulfur-38

    Machine Learning Techniques Enhance the Discovery of Excited Nuclear Levels in Sulfur-38

    Fixed numbers of protons and neutrons can rearrange themselves within a nucleus. The gamma ray transitions from this reshuffling connect excited quantum energy levels, and the pattern in these connections provide a unique "fingerprint" for each isotope.

    Proteins Suggest a Path to Reduce Drug Resistance in a Form of Cancer

    Proteins Suggest a Path to Reduce Drug Resistance in a Form of Cancer

    Scientists have learned more about how drug resistance develops in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and how the process might be slowed, thanks to a study of proteins and other molecular players.

    Reaping agricultural emissions solutions

    Reaping agricultural emissions solutions

    ORNL climate modeling expertise contributed to a project that assessed global emissions of ammonia from croplands now and in a warmer future, while also identifying solutions tuned to local growing conditions.

    Beyond Ice Cubes: Researchers Bring Complex Shapes to Sea-Ice Dynamics Models

    Beyond Ice Cubes: Researchers Bring Complex Shapes to Sea-Ice Dynamics Models

    Researchers model sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics to understand its role in global climate.

    Deglaciated Soils: Microorganisms Emerging From Melting Glaciers

    Deglaciated Soils: Microorganisms Emerging From Melting Glaciers

    As global temperatures continue to rise, glaciers are melting, and soils with communities of microorganisms are now exposed. Researchers are studying the microorganisms in these soils to determine how they influence carbon flux and climate change.