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Making Every Particle Count: Maximizing Isotope Production for Medicine, National Security, and Beyond Scientists have analyzed secondary neutrons at BLIP to enhance production efficiency for critical isotopes.
Lighting Up PFAS: Rapid Detection with Fluorescent Nanosensors Fluorescent nanosensors enable rapid, one-step detection of dangerous PFAS (per/polyfluoroalkyl) molecules in environmental samples.
Creating Atom-Thin Filters that Separate the Smallest Isotopes Scientists demonstrated that ultra-thin membranes made of 2D materials can act as filters to separate isotopes of hydrogen.
Microbes Turn Hazardous Waste Into Valuable Products Study shows liquid waste from pretreating biomass can be transformed into chemicals used to make plastics and other products

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(a-d) Atomic force microscopy (AFM) images of niobium (Nb) based superconducting qubits at (a,c) room temperature and (b,d) cryogenic temperatures. At low temperatures, the “hills” represent the formation of niobium hydrides.

Spotting a New Culprit in the Hunt for Quantum Noise

Microscopes, x-rays, and spectroscopy tools join forces to identify defects that interfere with delicate superconducting qubit properties.

High-speed X-ray radiography of thin plate laser welding and derived scaling laws demarking process windows for welds with and without humping.

X-rays Reveal Why High-Speed Welding Goes Wrong

Scientists used powerful X-rays and computer models to uncover what causes surface defects in laser welds—and how to stop them.

This illustration shows multilayer Laue lenses within the microscope focusing incoming X-rays on the microelectronics sample. It reveals the sample’s internal, nanoscale structure.

One Day's Work in an Hour: A Versatile, Fast-scanning, X-ray Microscope

Innovative, high-resolution X-ray microscopy system generates 3D images 20 times faster than the previous system.

The diagram shows the evolution of a copper surface from metal through OH adsorption to Cu2O and Cu(OH). Modulating the voltage enables the X-ray to reveal the surface chemistry as the reaction occurs.

Accessing Dynamic Electrochemical Interfaces

A new technique reveals ultrafast processes in electrode-electrolyte interfaces under operating conditions.

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Artist impression of a trapped radioactive vapor decaying into a coherently-beamed stream of neutrinos (symbolized by v).

Physicists Propose a New Kind of Laser That Would Fire Neutrinos

KATRIN scientists test the system of magnets that control the fields inside the spectrometer.

KATRIN Narrows Down the Range of Neutrinos’ Mass

A 3D view of the energy densities of electron neutrinos, electron anti-neutrinos, heavy-lepton neutrinos and heavy-lepton anti-neutrinos about five milliseconds after neutron stars collide.

When Neutron Stars Collide, Neutrinos Change Flavors

Left: X-ray tomography (XRT) image of a miniature sandstone sample. Right: A diffraction microscopy reconstruction of each grain’s compressive stress magnitude and orientation (portrayed as lines with length proportional to magnitude) during deformation.

Revealing Rock Stresses and Fractures in 3D

The QUANT-NET research team has designed a two-level control framework for quantum networks. This two-level control framework and scheduler are being deployed and evaluated in the QUANT-NET testbed.

Building a Flexible Control Framework for Quantum Networks

The final version of the redesigned drug binds tightly to the main COVID-19 protease, an enzyme the virus needs to multiply. The drug’s structure is effective even against mutated forms that resist other treatments.

Redesigned Hepatitis C Drug Becomes a Powerful New Treatment for COVID-19

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Uncertainty Toolbox: A Software Toolbox for Quantifying Uncertainty and More

Images showing mice injected with radioactive antimony. Left panel with TREN-CAM shows how the radioactive antimony will be active longer in the treatment areas. The right panel shows that the antimony without TREN-CAM doesn’t stay in the desired areas.

Progress Towards Unlocking Antimony’s Cancer Treatment Potential

Scientists used a new method to create 3D metallic and semiconductor nanostructures. The scale bar represents one micrometer. The graphics show how the researchers combined multiple techniques to layer materials on top of a 3D DNA framework "scaffolding."

Building 3D Nanoscale Structures Through DNA-Assembly and Templating

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