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.
For the archive of past publication highlights, click here.
February 2, 2024
Machine Learning Techniques Enhance the Discovery of Excited Nuclear Levels in Sulfur-38
Forefront nuclear physics capabilities and machine-learning data analyses combine to generate new information on quantum energy levels in sulfur-38.
January 31, 2024
Beyond Ice Cubes: Researchers Bring Complex Shapes to Sea-Ice Dynamics Models
Voronoi tessellation meshes focus on sea ice areas of interest and reduce computer resource needs.
January 29, 2024
Antihydrogen Falls Downward!
Settling a long-standing question, scientists have proven that antihydrogen falls downward in a first-ever direct experiment.
January 26, 2024
Revealed: Quantum Entanglement among Quarks
Quantum simulations reveal the presence of entanglement among the quarks produced in high energy collisions.
January 24, 2024
Islands That Move Together, Disrupt Together
Small rotating magnetic islands in tokamaks flowing at the same speed can couple together to cause disruptive islands that reduce plasma confinement.
January 22, 2024
Long-Lived State in Radioactive Sodium Discovered at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
A newly discovered excited state in radioactive sodium-32 has an unusually long lifetime, and its shape dynamics could be the cause.
January 19, 2024
Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe through Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Scientists investigate neutrinoless double beta decay through neutrino mass and the nuclear structure of germanium-76.
January 17, 2024
Seeing the Shape of Atomic Nuclei
New theoretical work indicates that the future Electron Ion Collider can be used to measure the shape of atomic nuclei.
January 16, 2024
Discovery of Low-lying Isomeric States in Cesium-136 Has Applications in Particle Astrophysics
Measurements of the nuclear structure of cesium-136 open a new channel for measurements of astrophysical neutrinos and searches for dark matter.
January 11, 2024
Researchers Visualize Energetic Ion Flow in Fusion Devices
For the first time, scientists successfully track energetic ion flow through space and energy driven by electromagnetic waves in fusion plasmas.