Research Summaries

Scientists characterize a promethium coordination complex for the first time, furthering the understanding of difficult-to-study lanthanide elements.

Inorganic precursors chosen based on new criteria led to higher phase purity for 32 out of 35 target materials synthesized in a robotic laboratory.

Theorists identify new effects needed to compute the nuclear beta decay rate with a precision of a few parts in ten thousand.

Strange metals defy the 60-year-old understanding of electric current as a flow of discrete charges.

Scientists are closing in on a major cornerstone of nuclear physics, Tin-100.

Researchers developed and executed algorithms for preparing the quantum vacuum and hadrons on more than 100 qubits of IBM quantum computers.

Heavy ligands, like polyoxometalates, open a new frontier in the chemistry of actinide elements.

A new framework for quantifying uncertainties increases the predictive power of analog quantum simulations.

Public researchers partner with a private company to improve simulations key to controlling plasma heat in a fusion energy power plant.

Experiments show that applied voltage can dramatically alter the magnetic properties of quantum materials.