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Each year, scientists with the Office of Science, at our national laboratories, and supported by the Office of Science at the nation’s colleges and universities, publish thousands of research findings in the scientific literature. About 200 of these are selected annually by their respective program areas in the Office of Science as publication highlights of special note.
Gaps or broken trees, known as windthrows, are a common form of tree mortality in Amazonia. Windthrows affect forest dynamics and carbon storage,
Almost all life on Earth relies directly or indirectly on the conversion of inorganic compounds in the environment into organic compounds that
Boron is widely known as an element with unique chemistry, often in regards to the octet rule. However, boron is also of great interest to many
New battery electrodes based on nanostructured molybdenum disulfide combine the ability to charge in seconds with high capacity and long cycle life
It is rare to find materials that operate at room temperature and display strong “multiferroic coupling” — a property that allows
Scientists at the University of Michigan overcame several long-standing technical challenges by developing custom-nanofabricated calorimeters (an
A critical property of any material used in solar cells, cell phones, or other electronics that are exposed to sunlight is photostability, a
Platinum is an essential element for catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction critical for fuel cell operations, a technology that generates
An important obstacle to realizing spintronics is the amplification of small spin signals. In conventional electronics, amplification of an
The big bang should have yielded equal amounts of matter and antimatter, yet observations suggest that there is very little antimatter in the