Research Summaries

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.

A comparison of throughput measurements and analytical capacity estimates for quantum networks finds surprising patterns.

Ultrafast electron diffraction imaging reveals atomic rearrangements long suspected to be crucial in the photochemistry of bromoform.

Nuclear theorists reveal mass distribution within the pion and the proton from first principle numerical calculations.

Excess oxygen on the surface of the metal oxide catalyst copper oxide promotes hydrogen oxidation but suppresses carbon monoxide oxidation.

Scientists find evidence of superfluidity in low-density neutron matter by using highly flexible neural-network representations of quantum wave functions.