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 7, 2024

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Gluon Spins Align with the Proton They’re In

A measurement tracking ‘direct’ photons from polarized proton collisions points to positive gluon polarization.

February 5, 2024

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Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome

Scientists engineered a model bacterium's genetic code to make it virus-resistant and unable to exchange genetic material or grow without special media.

February 2, 2024

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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

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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

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Antihydrogen Falls Downward!

Settling a long-standing question, scientists have proven that antihydrogen falls downward in a first-ever direct experiment.

January 26, 2024

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Revealed: Quantum Entanglement among Quarks

Quantum simulations reveal the presence of entanglement among the quarks produced in high energy collisions.

January 24, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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.