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The arrangement of electrons in an exotic human-made element shows that certain properties of heavy elements cannot be predicted using lighter ones.

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Modifying the internal structure of 2-D hybrid perovskite materials causes them to emit white light.

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A new shape measurement of unstable ruthenium-110 has found this nucleus to be similar to a squashed football.

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Exploiting reversible solubility allows for direct, optical patterning of unprecedentedly small features.

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Researchers discover the secret behind the third way living organisms extract energy from their environment.

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Scientists achieved thin films with structures virtually impossible via traditional methods.

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Novel spin-polarized surface states may guide the search for materials that host Majorana fermions, unusual particles that act as their own antimatter, and could revolutionize quantum computers.

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The Molecular Foundry and aBeam Technologies bring mass fabrication to nano-optical devices.

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In hybrid materials, “hot” electrons live longer, producing electricity, not heat, in solar cells.

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Defects in liquid crystals act as guides in tiny oceans, directing particle traffic.

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Built from the bottom up, nanoribbons can be semiconducting, enabling broad electronic applications.

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Scientists reveal structural, chemical changes as nickel-cobalt particles donate electrons, vital for making better batteries, fuel cells.

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Stress-induced embolisms that interrupt water transport are a universal component of tree mortality.

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Wide metastable composition ranges are possible in alloys of semiconductors with different crystal structures.

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Scientists combine biology, nanotechnology into composites that light up upon chemical stimulation.

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Swirling soup of matter’s fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado, setting new record for “vorticity.”

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Direct writing of pure-metal structures may advance novel light sources, sensors and information storage technologies.

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New studies of behaviors of particles containing heavy quarks shed light into what the early universe looked like in its first microseconds.

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To celebrate DOE's 40th anniversary, the Office of Science has collected 40 major papers from the past 40 years that we've supported via research through our national labs, user facilities, and grants programs.

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To celebrate DOE's 40th anniversary, the Office of Science has collected 40 major papers from the past 40 years that we've supported via research through our national labs, user facilities, and grants programs.

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A new class of plant-specific genes required for flowering control in temperate grasses is found.

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Demonstrating the microfluidic-based, mini-metagenomics approach on samples from hot springs shows how scientists can delve into microbes that can’t be cultivated in a laboratory.

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First complete picture of genetic variations in a natural algal population could help explain how environmental changes affect global carbon cycles.

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The genetic material of Porphyra umbilicalis reveals the mechanisms by which it thrives in the stressful intertidal zone at the edge of the ocean.

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Simultaneous measurements of x-rays and gamma rays emitted in radioactive nuclear decays show that the vacancy left by an electron’s departure, not the atomic structure, influences whether gamma rays are released.

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Seven-year study explains how packets of light are exchanged when protons meet electrons.

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The newly upgraded CEBAF Accelerator opens door to strong force studies.

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Genome-wide rice studies yield first major, large-scale collection of mutations for grass model crops, vital to boosting biofuel production.

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Scientists create widely controllable ultrathin optical components that allow virtual objects to be projected in real environments.

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In just two years, a process that was developed by Molecular Foundry staff and users has nearly doubled the number of materials with the potential for using sunlight to produce fuel.

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Confined within tiny carbon nanotubes, extremely cold water molecules line up in a highly ordered chain.

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Scientists design outstanding catalysts by controlling the composition and shape of these tiny plate-like structures on the nanoscale.

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Scientists set record resolution for patterning materials at sizes as small as a single nanometer using microscope-based lithography.

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Big impacts on crystal formation result from small changes and reveal design principles for new materials for solar cells, more.

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For the first time, self-organized, soft machines powered by molecular motors propelled fluid for hours across meters.

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Specific modifications to fungi DNA may hold the secret to turning common plant degradation agents into biofuel producers.

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Neutrons provide the solution to nanoscale examination of living cell membrane and confirm the existence of lipid rafts.

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Researchers convert 80 percent of biomass into high-value products with strategy that's ready for commercialization.

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Switchgrass cultivated during a year of severe drought inhibited microbial fermentation and resulting biofuel production.

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Montmorillonite clays prevent uranium from precipitating from liquids, letting it travel with groundwater.

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Seven-year-study shows plant growth does not sustainably balance carbon losses from solar warming and permafrost thaw.

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Van der Waals force, which that enables tiny crystals to grow, could be used to design new materials.

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Scarce compound, vitamin B12, is key for cellular metabolism and may help shape microbial communities that affect environmental cycles and bioenergy production.

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Microbes leave a large fraction of carbon in anoxic sediments untouched, a key finding for understanding how watersheds influence Earth’s ecosystem.

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New strategy greatly increases the production and secretion of biofuel building block lipids in bacteria able to grow at industrial scales.

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Graphene’s remarkable electronic properties have surprised scientists for years. But electrons move through it too easily to use it in everyday electronics. Scientists are researching a variety of ways to direct its electron traffic: creating nanoribbons of it, stretching it, using it with boron nitride, and even making “artificial atoms” in it.

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Scientists capture excess light energy to produce fuel, essentially storing sunlight’s energy for a rainy day.

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The quest for solar cell materials that are inexpensive, stable, and efficient leads to a breakthrough in thin film organic-inorganic perovskites.

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New supercomputing capabilities help understand how to cope with large-scale instabilities in tokamaks.

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For the first time, scientists modeled the spontaneous bifurcation of turbulence to high-confinement mode, solving a 35-year-old mystery.