Research Summaries

New measurements provide insights for geochronology and reactor design.

Researchers address the challenge of integrating the hot core and the cooler edge of a fusion plasma.

A newly designed X-ray oscillator may enable atomic level precision with intense X-ray pulses.

Nuclear physicists narrow the search for a rare nuclear decay that can explain the origin of matter in the universe.

Microbial populations trade places to satisfy their nitrogen nutritional needs.

A new quantitative understanding of how, at what distance, and in what shape zinc oxide nanoparticles come together while separated by liquid.

Scientists use a machine learning algorithm to reduce tuning time of a dozen instruments at once.

A novel terahertz laser achieves the performance goals critical for new applications in sensing and imaging.

An X-ray image taken with a novel X-ray wavefront imager results in high precision measurements of intensity and direction of the X-ray beam.

Tracking particles containing charm quarks offers insight into how quarks combine.