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.

January 16, 2024

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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

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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.

January 10, 2024

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Measurement Technique Sheds New Light on Semiconductors for Solar Fuels

A new experiment determines the energy available to drive chemical reactions at the interface between an illuminated semiconductor and a liquid solution.

January 8, 2024

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Testing the Gallium Anomaly

The Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) finds evidence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that interacts only via gravity.

January 5, 2024

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Protein Structures Signal Fresh Targets for Anticancer Drugs

Protein Structures Signal Fresh Targets for Anticancer Drugs

January 4, 2024

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The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams after One Year of Operation

Department of Energy user facility helps probe questions from changes in the structure of nuclei to nuclear reactions that shape the Universe.

January 2, 2024

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Opening the Magnetic Bottle of a Tokamak Causes Particles to Rush Inward

Perturbing the edge magnetic field of a tokamak produces a counterintuitive response: particles entering the confined region rather than escaping it.

December 28, 2023

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A Dense Quark Liquid Is Distinct from a Dense Nucleon Liquid

Matter inside neutron stars can have different forms: a dense liquid of nucleons or a dense liquid of quarks.

December 26, 2023

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Scientists Probe the Emergent Structure of the Carbon Nucleus

Researchers examine the structure of the low-energy nuclear states of carbon-12 using nuclear lattice effective field theory.

December 20, 2023

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How Do Quark-Gluon-Plasma Fireballs Explode into Hadrons?

Scientists translate predictions of hydrodynamics into experimentally observable particle patterns.