Research Summaries

Integrating machine learning with real-time adaptive control produces high-performance plasmas without edge instabilities, a key for future fusion reactors.

Theorists propose a new approach to electroluminescent cooling that works like inverted solar photovoltaic cells.

Quantum ghost imaging of live plants at light levels lower than starlight gives new perspectives on plant processes.

Ultrafast electron imaging captures never-before-seen nuclear motions in hydrocarbon molecules excited by light.

New theory-based approach gives access to quarks’ tiny transverse motion within protons.

Ultrafast X-ray experiments provide direct evidence that interaction of light with a hydrocarbon molecule produces strained molecular rings.

Nutrients related to vitamin B12 influence microbial growth and reshape soil microbiomes.

New lattice simulations compute the spin and density correlations in neutron matter that affect neutrino heating during core-collapse supernovae.

Copper catalysts play an unexpected oxidizing role during unassisted photocatalysis when coupled with plasmonic light absorbers.

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams enables a high-precision mass measurement at the edge of the nuclear chart.