Research Summaries

New measurements at RHIC provide evidence for quark ‘deconfinement’ and insight into the unimaginable temperature of the hottest matter on Earth.

The National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s community learning program trains early-career researchers.

Breakthrough will accelerate efforts to tap the potential of this important perennial grass, a promising crop for sustainable bioenergy production.

Calculations predict the temperature at which bottomonium melts in the hot matter created in heavy ion collisions.

Research advances the chemistry and improves the purity of isotopes for targeted alpha therapy used in the treatment of cancers.

Data on protons emitted from wide range of gold-gold collision energies shows absence of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at the lowest energy.

Researchers have resolved a longstanding puzzle in theoretical calculations for heavy ion and electron-ion collision experiments.

Scientists can tune the strength of astatine-211 bonds with chemicals called ketones, laying the groundwork for a new class of radiopharmaceuticals.

Scientists test nuclear theory models in mid-sized nuclei using high resolution Indium-115 decay data.

A newly proposed approach aids chemical studies of rare, toxic, radioactive, and precious isotopes by requiring 1,000 times less material.