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How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid

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This Ultrathin Sensor Could Save Your Lungs – and the Climate

A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science

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)

A 1-Atom-Deep Look at a Water-Splitting Catalyst

Rendering - This illustration shows two possible types of surface layers for a catalyst that performs the water-splitting reaction, the first step in making hydrogen fuel: The gray surface is lanthanum oxide and the colorful surface is nickel oxide. A rearrangement of nickel oxide’s atoms while carrying out the reaction made it twice as efficient. Researchers hope to harness this phenomenon to make better catalysts. Lanthanum atoms are depicted in green, nickel atoms in blue, and oxygen atoms in red. (Credit: CUBE3D)

Building a Giant 2D Map of the Universe to Prepare for the Largest 3D Map

Screenshot - A spiral galaxy, viewed with the Sky Viewer tool. (Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys)

Aerial Video: Berkeley Lab From Above

Photo - This image, taken from a drone video of the Berkeley Lab site, shows the domed Advanced Light Source building at right, among other buildings at the site. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

New NSF Physics Frontier Center Will Focus on Neutron Star Modeling in ‘Gravitational Wave Era’

Image - This rendering shows the density of matter in the aftermath of two merged neutron stars, resulting in the formation of a black hole. (Credit: David Radice/Pennsylvania State University)

Masks On, Ready to Work: Meet the People Supporting COVID-19 Science

Making Quantum ‘Waves’ in Ultrathin Materials

Illustration: Plasmon waves (shown as concentric red and blue rings), created by an ultrafast laser pulse coupled to an atomic-force microscopy tip, move slowly across a monolayer of tantalum disulfide. (Courtesy of Felipe da Jornada)

Making a Material World Better, Faster Now: Q&A With Materials Project Director Kristin Persson

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How JCAP Is Making Solar Fuels Shine

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Particle Physics Turns to Quantum Computing for Solutions to Tomorrow’s Big-Data Problems

Image - Display of a simulated High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) collision event in an upgraded ATLAS detector. The event has an average of 200 collisions per particle bunch crossing. (Credit: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN)