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ARGONNE, Ill. (December 26, 2007) — Thanks to an innovative, non-invasive imaging technique, patients with head-and-neck cancers may soon be able to anticipate how severe their reaction to treatment will be.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 19, 2007) – Recently published research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, and academic institutions has shed light on a semiconducting material with zero thermal expansion.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 7, 2007) — Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago have dug up some interesting dirt on prairie soil and certain crops and grasses common to the central Midwest.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 4, 2007) – The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory announced today that a new Theory and Computing Sciences Building will be constructed at the laboratory, solidifying the fastest growing research program in its history.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 30, 2007) – Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory's Transportation Technology R&D Center (TTRDC) will present 11 papers during the Electric Vehicle Symposium-23 that will be held in Anaheim, Calif., from Dec. 2-5.More...

ARGONNE, IL — (Nov. 28, 2007) The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has expanded its capabilities to protect U.S. interests at home and abroad.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 27, 2007) — The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is taking its nuclear energy research into new territory – virtual territory, that is.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 23, 2007) — Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But "T-rays", a completely safe form of electromagnetic radiation, may reshape not only airport screening procedures but also medical imaging practices.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 21, 2007) – A new high-performance computer cluster at the Center for Nanoscale Material at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is number 150 on the list of the world's 500 fastest computers.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 12, 2007) — The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has teamed up with several industrial partners, including some of America's largest automakers, to promote research and development of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 9, 2007) — One of the world's fastest supercomputers will soon reside at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, thanks to a recently completed contract for the acquisition of a 445-teraflops IBM Blue Gene/P cluster.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 9, 2007) – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used a uniquely constructed perforated diamond cell to investigate oxide glass structures at high pressures in unprecedented detail.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 9, 2007) – Breakthrough astrophysics research may have established the hitherto mysterious source of exceptionally high-energy cosmic ray emissions, according to recently published research that culminates a project developed by a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 7, 2007) – Joe V. Michael, a senior chemist at Argonne National Laboratory, has been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by their peers.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 2, 2007) — Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Houston and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 2, 2007) — How big does a cluster of metal atoms actually have to be before it starts acting like a metal: ductile, malleable and a conductor?More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 1, 2007) – IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory today announced completion of a contract for a 445-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 29, 2007) – Argonne National Laboratory will be abuzz November 2 and 3 with 500 to 600 university students and faculty members, and computer information sciences professionals engaged in science and technology education during a joint meeting of the 18th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics; The Central States Universities, Inc., Research Conference; and the Computer Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Stakeholders Summit.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 26, 2007) — A new ultra-high resolution mammography system that detects cancerous tumors with higher-quality images, more efficient radiation exposures and lower cost has been developed by a team of U.S. and German scientists.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 25, 2007) – Noted physicist Walter F. Henning of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has received a prestigious award from the president of Germany in recognition of Henning's contributions to physics research in that country.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 25, 2007) — PBS' Nightly Business Report (NBR) has plans to air a segment about Argonne National Laboratory as part of a series on the "nuclear renaissance," the potential comeback of nuclear energy in this country as a source for electrical power. The segment featuring Argonne is scheduled to air at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday,  Oct. 31, on WTTW-TV Channel 11 in Chicago.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 19, 2007) – As previously announced in July 2007, Argonne National Laboratory ceased experimental work at one of its nuclear facilities pending evaluation of operational issues. Based on comprehensive cost/benefit analyses, Argonne has made a decision not to pursue necessary upgrades required for resumption of experimental work at these facilities.More...

Maynard, Mass. (Oct. 16, 2007) — SiCortex, the first company to engineer a Linux® cluster from the silicon up, today announced that the first production model of an SC5832, its flagship 5.8 teraflop system, will be installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont, Ill.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 12, 2007) — To build a treehouse, you'll need a hammer, some nails, and a tolerance for splinters. Toprinttreehouses, however, you'll probably need a Fab Lab.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (October 11, 2007) – Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified an unusual variation in the compressibility of an unusual class of metals in research that may shed light on the electrodynamics of amorphous materials.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 9, 2007) — Peter Grünberg, who shares the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics, conducted part of his groundbreaking research on magnetoresistive materials at Argonne in 1984 and 1985. Grünberg visited Argonne while a research scientist at the Institute of Solid State Research at Research Centre Jülich, Germany.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 8, 2007) – The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is working closely with Chinese scientists and policy makers toward the goal of creating a cleaner Beijing and developing sustainable technologies for the 2008 Olympic Games and beyond.More...

Argonne, Ill. (Oct. 3, 2007) – In their normal state, electrons repel each other because of their charge, but in the state of superconductivity, electrons pair up. John Schlueter, a chemist from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, collaborated with a team of researchers from the University of Oxford to better understand how this unlikely courtship occurs.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 2, 2007) – The Center for Nanoscale Materials at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, one of the premier nanoscience research facilities in the world, has been declared fully operational.More...

Argonne, Ill. (Oct. 1, 2007) – In order to learn more about the origins of quantum dot blinking, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology have developed a method to characterize it on faster time scales than have previously been accessed.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 28, 2007) — “Magnetic snakes” with unique dynamic and magnetic properties that may usher in new generations of recording media, conductors and microfluidic devices have been created by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 28, 2007) — A particular class of hydrogen atoms may prove ideal for the study of one of the four fundamental forces of physics, according to research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 14, 2007) — The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Group works on particle accelerators in much the same way that horsepower junkies work on muscle cars. Although their research doesn't involve turbochargers, stall torque converters or cat back exhaust systems, the AWA group obsesses over the power of their machine.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 13, 2007) – New research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory physicist Matthias Bode provides a more thorough understanding of new mechanisms, which makes it possible to switch a magnetic nanoparticle without any magnetic field and may enable computers to more accurately write and store information.More...

Argonne, Ill. (Sept. 6, 2007) – Two new scientists have joined the Center for Nanoscale Materi at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko are contributing their expertise to the NanoBio Interfaces Group.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (August 31, 2007) – A new award-winning innovation developed at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory can covertly detect chemical plumes at great distances and may help thwart future chemical or nuclear-based terrorist attacks. The technology has a number of other uses, as well, from detecting environmental pollution to determining the extent of tissue damage in burn victims without physical contact.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (August 30, 2007) – Two Argonne-based research-and-development projects have been selected to receive grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of an effort to improve the fuel efficiency of light-duty vehicle engines while promoting collaboration between researchers in government labs, universities and industry.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 29, 2007) – Developing good predictive powers of how all nuclei work is critical to advance our understanding of the universe. The vast nuclear landscape, which is thought to consist of about 6,000 isotopes is not well charted and half the nuclei remain unknown.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 27, 2007) – Two researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory won coveted 2007 achievement awards from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation (HENAAC).More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (August 24, 2007) – Argonne computer scientist Ian Foster has been recognized as one of the top three most influential computer scientists worldwide, according to a new formula that measures the impact of a scientist's work.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 23, 2007) – Julius Jellinek, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, will deliver the plenary talk of the Faraday Discussion Meeting 138 on Nanoalloys: From Theory to Application, to be held on September 3-5, at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 22, 2007) — Computer scientists from the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory joined with economists from the University of Chicago earlier this month for a conference designed to bridge the existing gulf between these two fields and teach young economists how to use state-of-the-art software and computational methods.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 20, 2007) – A new class of catalysts created at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may help scientists and engineers overcome some of the hurdles that have inhibited the production of hydrogen for use in fuel cells.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 17, 2007) — After a vision nearly 10 years ago to build a system to enable group-to-group collaboration using scalable computing and networking technology, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been honored with an R&D 100 Award for their resulting product, Access Grid 3.0.More...

Argonne, Ill. (Aug. 15, 2007) – Twenty Argonne scientists will present their research at the 234th national meeting and exposition of the American Chemical Society, to be held in Boston from Aug. 19-23.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 9, 2007) – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have cast new light on why the giant insects that lived millions of years ago disappeared.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 7, 2007) – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised three of the world's top 100 scientific and technological innovations during 2006, as judged by R&D magazine.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 3, 2007) — One key to saving the environment, improving our economy and reducing our dependence on foreign oil might just be sitting in your mother's medicine cabinet.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 31, 2007) — In recent years, Americans have been intrigued by the promise of hydrogen-powered vehicles. But experts have judged that several technology problems must be resolved before they are more than a novelty. Recently, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used their insights into nanomaterials to create bendy hydrogen sensors, which are at the heart of hydrogen fuel cells used in hydrogen vehicles.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 27, 2007) — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new technique for cleansing contaminated water and potentially purifying hydrogen for use in fuel cells, thanks to the discovery of a innovative type of porous material.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 25, 2007) — A new book,Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation,has been referred to as a must read for anyone considering applications of agent-based modeling for solving real world problems.More...

Chicago, Ill. (July 22, 2007) — Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just 50 atoms in thickness.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 20, 2007) — More efficient and less costly solar cells, solid-state lighting and industrial catalysts are potential applications of atomic layer deposition (ALD), a technique that researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are working to perfect. Other potential applications are improved superconductors and separation membranes.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 17, 2007) — Optimization technology is essential to engineers, scientists, businesses and even students. Optimization programs provide the answers to questions ranging from creating the most efficient allocation of resources to finding the healthiest meal at a fast food restaurant. But writing program after program to solve one optimization problem after another or even using an existing optimization library is often time-consuming or tedious.More...

ARGONNE, Ill (July 16, 2007) — Jaydeep Bardhan of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been named a Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science for 2007.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 13, 2007) — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory Director Robert Rosner has ordered suspension of work using nuclear materials in two labs in one building on site effective July 3, 2007.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 10, 2007) – A detailed understanding of key chemical reactions that take place in interstellar space has been provided by groundbreaking research at two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories and two European universities.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 9, 2007) — Gian Piero Felcher, retired senior physicist in the Materials Science Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has been named an inaugural fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 6, 2007) — The story of Eichrom Technologies, founded in 1990 to commercialize chemical separation technology developed at Argonne, provides insight into key issues facing high-tech start-ups and illustrates resources available through U.S. Department of Energy laboratories that can help smooth some of the bumps.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 28, 2007) – The UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory today honored 20 Argonne employees and two children of Argonne employees at its 2007 awards program.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 26, 2007) — Argonne National Laboratory, IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science announced today that IBM will soon ship its first external Blue Gene/P system to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 22, 2007) — Argonne reached another milestone in the design and construction of the Linac Coherent Light Source undulator system.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 20, 2007) – World-renowned physicist Walter F. Henning is joining the scientific staff at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to head up Argonne's efforts to build a proposed exotic beam facility for nuclear physics research, which will revolutionize our understanding of nuclei, the core of matter and the fuel of stars.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 19, 2007) — Solving one of the biggest problems in commercialization of fuel-cell-powered automobiles is the goal of a new $1.88 million research project on on-board hydrogen storage at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 18, 2007) — Materials that change temperature in magnetic fields could lead to new refrigeration technologies that reduce the use of greenhouse gases, thanks to new research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Ames National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 14, 2007) – A new Internet-based information system that will help oil and gas producers find technical solutions to problems has been developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory with funding through the National Energy Technology Laboratory, provided by the Office of Fossil Energy's Oil and Natural Gas Program.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 12, 2007) — A computer software program that helps developers of alternative vehicles, developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has won a national award for technology development.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 8, 2007) — With an eye toward learning more about the elements that make up the universe and everything in it, Argonne scientists have reached the latest milestone in an upgrade of ATLAS, a leading facility for nuclear structure research in the United States.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 8, 2007) — Argonne National Laboratory will be host on Saturday to a multiple-agency emergency drill that will take place along South Cass Avenue near the Argonne site next to Darien.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 1, 2007) – Robin Santra has been selected as the winner of the first 2007 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 31, 2007) — With the summer travel season beginning, many travelers are beating jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 28, 2007) — The New York Times web site features an animated video, developed by Argonne researcher Paul Fischer in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago as part of a story about the causes and treatment of stroke.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 25, 2007) – Better magnetic storage devices for computers and other electronics could result from new work by researchers in the United States and Germany.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 14, 2007) — Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory signed an agreement today that promises to speed the delivery of technological advances to American military forces while saving taxpayer dollars.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 11, 2007) – Emergency preparedness planners will be able to better prepare individuals with special needs thanks to new open-source software developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 10, 2007) — More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new findings by researchers from the United States, Norway and Russia.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 8, 2007) — Helping the world meet increasing energy needs through solar energy will be the goal of a new research center established by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 8, 2007) — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new approach to increasing the capacity and stability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 7, 2007) — The Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the APS Users Organization have announced that the 2007 Arthur H. Compton Award will be presented jointly to Andrzej Joachimiak and Gerold Rosenbaum of Argonne National Laboratory for pioneering advances and leadership that helped to establish the APS as a premier location worldwide for protein crystallography research.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 3, 2007) — Today's edition ofNaturejournal reveals how collaboration between scientists in the USA and the UK has led to a major breakthrough in the understanding of antiferromagnets.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 1, 2007) — Argonne researchers have successfully laser-cooled and trapped atoms of radium — the first time this rare element has been captured in a magneto-optical trap — with an assist from an unexpected source.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 1, 2007) – Argonne National Laboratory has named Charlie Catlett Chief Information Officer and Division Director of Argonne's Computing and Information Systems Division. He will assume these responsibilities effective May 1, 2007.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 30, 2007) — Scientists in the Northern Hemisphere have opened a new window on the universe allowing them to explore and understand the cosmos at a much higher level of precision than was previously available.More...

ARGONNE, Ill., (April 28, 2007) — A team from Roosevelt Middle School, River Forest, has advanced to the National Middle School Science Bowl after achieving the best overall performance in the 17th annual fuel cell car competition.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 27, 2007) — A catalyst developed by Argonne researchers could help diesel truck manufacturers eliminate harmful nitrogen-oxide emissions from diesel exhausts.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 25, 2007) — Robert Rosner, director of Argonne National Laboratory, discussed the range of technologies available to combat global warming and the expected role of nuclear energy in meeting the challenge.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 21, 2007) — A team of students from Wilmington High School, Wilmington, today won the 9th annual Illinois Rube Goldberg Machine Championship, sponsored jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.More...

CHICAGO, Ill. (April 20, 2007) — In celebration of Particle Accelerator Day this weekend in Illinois, two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have planned events at their respective accelerator facilities. This is the second year that the two labs are celebrating “Particle Accelerator Day”– a celebration that follows Gov. Rod Blagojevich's proclamation of April 21 as Particle Accelerator Day in Illinois.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 19, 2007) — The University of Chicago Press has publishedThe Scientific Literature: A Guided Tourby Joseph E. Harmon of Argonne National Laboratory and Alan G. Gross of the University of Minnesota.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 16, 2007) — Argonne National Laboratory Director Robert Rosner has appointed Renee Carder as the Deputy to the Lab Director.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 16, 2007) – A surprising technique to concentrate, manipulate and separate a wide class of swimming bacteria has been identified through a collaboration between researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of technology, University of Arizona at Tucson and Cambridge University, U.K. This device could have enormous applications in biotechnology and biomedical engineering, including use in miniaturized medical diagnostic kits and bioanalysis.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 13, 2007) — To improve the air quality of Beijing and ensure a healthy atmosphere for athletes and spectators at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been working with leading institutions in the United States and China.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 12, 2007) — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame have successfully applied X-ray scattering techniques to determine how dissolved metal ions interact in solution.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 11, 2007) — Argonne National Laboratory Director Robert Rosner was interviewed by several radio stations, including CNN Radio; WTOP, the CBS Affiliate in Washington . D.C.; and WDIS, Boston.  His topic was the "green economy."More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 11, 2007) — Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago were featured on the Washington , D.C. , cable TV show "International Definition."More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 10, 2007) — Chicago-area middle school students will race to see who has built the best hydrogen-fueled model car at the 17th annual model car competition Saturday, April 28, at the Museum of Science and Industry, 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 2, 2007) — Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These flexible structures could find useful applications as sensors and as electronic devices that can be integrated into artificial muscles or biological tissues.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 30, 2007) — When a prestigious art institute owns a precious, ancient artifact and wants to know more about its origin, special non-destructive tools are needed.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 30, 2007) — A team from Maine Township South High School today won Argonne National Laboratory's 12th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest held at Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 29, 2007) — Illinois has more nuclear reactors than any other state in the union, and as concerns about global warming grow, governments and energy companies are investing more and more in nuclear power. Mark Peters, deputy to the associate laboratory director for applied science and technology at Argonne National Laboratory, joins host Steve Edwards of WBEZ Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight show to discuss the advantages of nuclear energy.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 26, 2007) – In an agreement signed today, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology are joining with the Korea Power Exchange to establish a joint training program combining training and research at Argonne with formal academic education at IIT.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 21, 2007) — Argonne director Robert (Bob) Rosner discusses science and accelerators with host Chris Clark on the "Conversation Hour" on 774 ABC radio in Melbourne, Australia.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 20, 2007) — Argonne scientists helped lead the superconducting revolution 20 years ago this month with their landmark solution of the structure of the most widely known high-temperature superconductor YBa₂Cu₃O₇. Now, they have solved another tantalizing superconductivity mystery: how a subtle change in the structure of so-called electron-doped superconductors switches the phenomenon of superconductivity on and off.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 16, 2007) — Students who participate in Argonne's 12th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Friday, March 30, will need creativity, concentration and perhaps some vitamin C to demonstrate complicated machines that juice an orange and pour the juice from a pitcher into a cup in 10 or more steps.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 7, 2007) — The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the United States Council for Automotive Research's Vehicle Recycling Partnership and the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council have been awarded the Plastics Recycling and Sustainability Award in Enabling Technologies by the Society of Plastics Engineers for their work in the optimum recycling of plastics and other materials from end-of-life vehicles.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Mar. 6, 2007) — Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and provide increased energy efficiency, says a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in a report published in the March issue ofPhysics Today.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 2, 2007) — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed an advanced concept in nanoscale catalyst engineering – a combination of experiments and simulations that will bring polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells for hydrogen-powered vehicles closer to massive commercialization.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 27, 2007) — Better treatment for infections, breast and prostate cancer, and certain brain injuries, as well as improved detection developing tumors, are the focus of new joint research by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 26, 2007) — New information about a link between the growth of blood vessels critical to the spread of cancer and the copper in our bodies has been discovered by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, using a beamline at the Advanced Photon Source.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 23, 2007) — President Bush invited Michael Thackeray of Argonne National Laboratory to the White House on February 23, 2007 for a round table discussion on the role of lithium-ion batteries for transportation, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 22, 2007) — Michael E. Papka has been named deputy associate director for Computing and Life Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 16, 2007) — The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will host the 20th annual Science Careers in Search of Women conference, Thursday, March 8.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 15, 2007) — The Model Coupling Toolkit created by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory played a key role in the climate simulations used to prepare the new U.N. report "Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis."More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 8, 2007) – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered new information on the behavior of nano-engineered platinum surfaces – information that may bring polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells for hydrogen-powered vehicles another step closer to full development.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 2, 2007) — Three young scientists with promising careers ahead of them have been appointed as postdoctoral fellows at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 1, 2007) — Nine computing projects ranging from predicting protein structure to simulating the formation of foams have been awarded large amounts of time on IBM Blue Gene/L computer systems at the U. S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The computer time is available to researchers through the Department of Energy's INCITE program – Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 24, 2007) — Zheng-Tian Lu of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 24, 2007) — Don Schmitt has been named the director of Human Resources Division (HR) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 24, 2007) — Paul Clark has been appointed Director of the Nuclear Operations Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 22, 2007) – William J. Shack, a senior engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has been named chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 19, 2007) — A new report prepared by the Environmental Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory has the potential for far-reaching impacts on the electric utility industry. It concludes there has been improved management of coal combustion wastes (CCWs) in landfills and surface impoundments over the past decade.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 18, 2007) — Girls in sixth through eighth grade are invited to participate in Argonne National Laboratory's Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day to be held on Thursday, February 22.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 5, 2007) — Researchers from the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics, located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, have deposited their 500th structure to the Protein Data Bank – identifying the structure of an enzyme in the key bacterium for modifying and improving crop production.More...

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