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Image - The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. (Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory) Microscopy image of the SARS-CoV-2 virus Topological Antenna Rendering - At the COSMIC Microscopy beamline, researchers probed the oxidation state of the chemical element cerium using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) under operando conditions. It was a first demonstration of this capability at COSMIC. The results confirmed how cerium particles dictated the size and locations of the reaction sites of platinum particles. In this artistic depiction, hybrid CeOX-TiO2 nanoparticles (silver spheres) are shown evenly covered with platinum and cerium pairs (yellow and blue) while conventional titanium dioxide particles are shown less densely covered with larger platinum clusters (gold). (Credit: Chungnam National University) nanoparticles-cosmetics stock photo of coal-fired power plant Photo – CERN's ATLAS detector undergoes upgrades in preparation for its next round of particle physics experiments, which is scheduled to begin in 2022. Photo - This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. The next step will be to build a meter-long version and install it at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne. (Credit: Ibrahim Kesgin/Argonne National Laboratory) Photo - This BELLA HTT laser system enables multipulse, high-energy-density photon sources for LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Image - An ATLAS particle collision event display from 2018. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration)