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Isotopic evidence of acetate turnover in Precambrian continental fracture fluids

Trapped in rock fractures miles below the surface are saline waters that have been isolated for millions of years. In these most remote environments exists an active turnover of dissolved organic molecules, an active carbon cycle.

Elliott P. Mueller
Juliann Panehal
Alex L. Sessions
ResearchOpen Access23 Oct 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-9
⁸⁶Kr excess and other noble gases identify a billion-year-old radiogenically-enriched groundwater system

Noble gases confirm billion-year groundwater residence times and external fluxes in deep crustal settings globally with implications for subsurface habitability and economic reservoir formation over planetary timescales both on Earth and beyond

O. Warr
C. J. Ballentine
B. Sherwood Lollar
ResearchOpen Access30 Jun 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-9
The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

Octupole deformation in nuclei is important to understand nuclear structure and electric dipole moments of heavy atoms. Here the authors measure energies of excited quantum states in radon isotopes and find that these isotopes do not provide favourable conditions in the search for CP-violation.

P. A. Butler
L. P. Gaffney
M. Zielinska
ResearchOpen Access06 Jun 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-6
The low permeability of the Earth’s Precambrian crust

The unexpected low permeability of Precambrian rock may suggest a more isolated hydrological environment for microbial communities in the deep Earth than previously thought, according to hydrological residence times estimated from noble gas analyses

Grant Ferguson
Jennifer McIntosh
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
ResearchOpen Access13 Sept 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-8
Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

The second Global Amphibian Assessment finds that the status of amphibians is continuing to deteriorate globally, driven predominantly by climate change, disease and habitat loss.

Jennifer A. Luedtke
Janice Chanson
Simon N. Stuart
ResearchOpen Access04 Oct 2023
Nature

Volume: 622, P: 308-314
Radiolytically reworked Archean organic matter in a habitable deep ancient high-temperature brine

A deep, ancient, and uranium-rich brine in South Africa reveals evidence of radiolytically oxidized kerogen and C₁–C₃ hydrocarbons with abiotic isotopic signatures that support a low biomass microbial community over time.

Devan M. Nisson
Clifford C. Walters
Tullis C. Onstott
ResearchOpen Access03 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-15
Demonstration of Super-X divertor exhaust control for transient heat load management in compact fusion reactors

Managing power exhaust in fusion reactors is a key challenge, especially in compact designs for cost-effective commercial energy. This study shows how alternative divertor configurations improve exhaust control, enhance stability, absorb transients and enable independent plasma regulation.

B. Kool
K. Verhaegh
V. Zamkovska
ResearchOpen Access05 Sept 2025
Nature Energy

Volume: 10, P: 1116-1131
Deep terrestrial indigenous microbial community dominated by Candidatus Frackibacter

Borehole fluids retrieved from the 2.4 km deep Kidd Creek Subsurface Observatory in Canada contain an indigenous microbial community dominated by Candidatus Frackibacter and represents an uncontaminated sample of the deep subsurface microbiome.

Sian E. Ford
Greg F. Slater
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
ResearchOpen Access29 Dec 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-15
Author Correction: Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

Jennifer A. Luedtke
Janice Chanson
Simon N. Stuart
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access01 Dec 2023
Nature

Volume: 625, P: E2
Studies of pear-shaped nuclei using accelerated radioactive beams

An experimental study of certain short-lived isotopes of radon and radium has found clear octupole deformation in the nuclei of the latter — that is, these nuclei are pear-shaped; the results enable discrimination between differing theoretical approaches to octupole correlations.

L. P. Gaffney
P. A. Butler
M. Zielinska
Research08 May 2013
Nature

Volume: 497, P: 199-204
Publisher Correction: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

P. A. Butler
L. P. Gaffney
M. Zielinska
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access09 Oct 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1
Addendum: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

P. A. Butler
L. P. Gaffney
M. Zielinska
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access13 Jul 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-5
Divertor shaping with neutral baffling as a solution to the tokamak power exhaust challenge

Power exhaust is one of the biggest challenges stopping fusion energy. This article shows experimental evidence for strategically shaping the power exhaust region as a solution to this challenge, utilising physics understanding to strike a balance between engineering complexity and power exhaust benefits, consistent with reduced models and simulations.

Kevin Verhaegh
James Harrison
V. Zamkovska
ResearchOpen Access23 May 2025
Communications Physics

Volume: 8, P: 1-15

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Isotopic evidence of acetate turnover in Precambrian continental fracture fluids

⁸⁶Kr excess and other noble gases identify a billion-year-old radiogenically-enriched groundwater system

The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

The low permeability of the Earth’s Precambrian crust

Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

Radiolytically reworked Archean organic matter in a habitable deep ancient high-temperature brine

Demonstration of Super-X divertor exhaust control for transient heat load management in compact fusion reactors

Deep terrestrial indigenous microbial community dominated by Candidatus Frackibacter

Author Correction: Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

Studies of pear-shaped nuclei using accelerated radioactive beams

Publisher Correction: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

Addendum: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

Divertor shaping with neutral baffling as a solution to the tokamak power exhaust challenge

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