The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Science has featured our recent paper, “Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction” (Nature 578, pp. 540–544, 2020) as one of its Nuclear Physics Science Highlights. The highlight, titled “Researchers Overcome the Space between Protons and Neutrons to Study the Heart of Matter” recognizes this work as one of the most significant recent achievements from the nuclear physics research sponsored by the Dept. of Energy (DOE). In addition to supporting the research, the experimental data in this paper were collected at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), a DOE-operated facility.