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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.

Archive of past publication highlights.

High-energy electrons play an important role in auroras. However, previous dynamical simulations either did not incorporate critical electron
Artist’s depiction of the deuteron, the nuclear bound state of a proton and a neutron, on a backdrop of a computer circuit.
The first-ever computation of an atomic nucleus, the deuteron, on a quantum chip demonstrates that even today’s rudimentary quantum computers can solve nuclear physics questions.