2008 Argonne News Releases and Features

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ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 19, 2008) — Assistant chemist Yugang Sun and physicist Robin Santra of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory today received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to recognize their contribution to the advancement of science.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 18, 2008) — Based on their potential for breakthroughs in science and engineering research, 28 projects have been awarded 400 million hours of computing time at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility through the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 18, 2008) — Two computational scientists in Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division have been awarded a total of 37,500,000 hours of computing time on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) to investigate safe and cost effective methods for developing nuclear energy.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 17, 2008) — David Baker, University of Washington professor of biochemistry and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute, has been awarded the 2008 Raymond & Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec. 12, 2008) — From Deep Blue, the computer that defeated Garry Kasparov in a 1997 chess match, to the new Blue Gene® line of high-performance computers created by IBM, a single color has traditionally been associated with advanced computing.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 28, 2008) — The basic molecules that make up the essence of life have a predetermined chirality, similar to the way people are right or left handed. Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to induce this "handedness" in pre-biological molecules.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 25, 2008) — Emilio Bunel has been named director of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 19, 2008) — The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been named a winner of the annual High Performance Computing Challenge Award at the SuperComputing 08 Conference in Austin, Texas.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 18, 2008) — Peter Beckman has been named director of the Leadership Computing Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The Leadership Computing Facility operates the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is home to one of the world's fastest computers for open science, the Blue Gene/P, and is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's effort to provide leadership-class computing resources to the scientific community.More...

ARGONNE, Ill, (Nov. 14, 2008) — As the stock market continues its dive, economists and business columnists have spilled a lot of ink assigning responsibility for the ongoing financial calamity. While hindsight might be clear as day, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are trying to create new economic models that will provide policymakers with more realistic pictures of different types of markets so they can better avert future economic catastrophe.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 7, 2008) — Using data collected at Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, researchers at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif., have for the first time solved the structure of a virus that can infect specific cancer cells.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 6, 2008) — A new X-ray technique has enabled scientists to "play detective" and solve the debate about the origins of a three-billion-year-old rock fragment.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 31, 2008) — An ice-slurry technology developed at Argonne National Laboratory promises to give doctors more time to save the lives of emergency patients, as well as to protect the heart, brain, kidneys and spinal cord of patients during planned surgeries.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 30, 2008) – The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has teamed with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University to form the Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology, which will develop solutions to technical issues related to transportation, health and systems that operate in extreme environments.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 24, 2008) — Argonne National Laboratory was awarded a $2.6 million-a-year contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to expand DOE's ability to take the most reliable measurements in and above the Earth's oceans. Such information is critical for advancing scientific knowledge of Earth systems and building climate models that are more accurate, comprehensive and robust.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 17, 2008) — A new environmentally conscious international sports-car racing event has just been given the green flag. As it celebrates its 10th season of world-class sports car racing, the American Le Mans Series debuted its Green Challenge with assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Society of Automotive Engineers International.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Oct. 3, 2008) — From petroleum to food and beverage to pharmaceuticals, most industries use mechanical pumps, and all these pumps rely on seals to reduce leaks and maintenance costs. Argonne researchers, along with industry partners, have developed a new, efficient and cost-effective alternative to conventional seals.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. ( Sept. 26, 2008) – A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and sensors that detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 25, 2008) — Bob Stanek of Argonne's High Energy Physics Division is one of several scientists to be featured in "The Collider," a segment of CBS' "60 Minutes" TV show, scheduled for this Sunday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (September 24, 2008) – Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 10, 2008) — Some of the biggest questions in particle physics could only be worked through on paper – until now.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 5, 2008) — The “omnivorous engine” is no picky eater. Gasoline? Down the hatch. Ethanol? Butanol? It'll slurp those up too. The creators of the omnivorous engine, engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, seek to fashion an engine that can run on just about any type of spark-ignited fuel.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Sept. 3, 2008) — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have won an $800,000 EUREKA award from the National Institutes of Health to develop MADMAX, a precise molecular ruler for measuring distances within a protein.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 27, 2008) — The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will host the 1st International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automotive Applications Sept. 15-17, 2008.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 22, 2008) — A commercial-scale process to extract and reuse pure hydrogen from the hydrogen sulfide that naturally contaminates unrefined oil, including oil sands, is one step closer to reality thanks to a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc. of Kingston, Ontario.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 5, 2008) — The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a grant for a computer system that will enable researchers to store, access and analyze massive datasets.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 4, 2008) – Oxide scales are supposed to protect alloys from extensive corrosion, but scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered metal nanoparticle chinks in this armor.More...

ARGONNE, Ill (Aug. 1, 2008) — When the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote "in vino veritas"– in wine, there is truth – he must not have been drinking from a counterfeit bottle. Researchers Roger Johnston and Jon Warner of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have created a device to ensure that modern wine connoisseurs can have faith that they are drinking what they pay for.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 28, 2008)–Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out. Dynamic frustration has been found to be the cause of glassy behavior in materials that previously had none of the features of a normal glass.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 22, 2008) — Argonne's Blue Gene/P Intrepid supercomputer will soon have the data analytics and visualization capability to complement its distinction as the fastest computer in the world for open science and the third fastest overall computer in the world.More ...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 18, 2008)—At a small site on the Batavia campus of Fermilab, ecologist Julie Jastrow of Argonne National Laboratory pushes the scientific frontier in a new and exciting way: She watches the grass grow.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 17, 2008)—Tom LeCompte of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been tapped to be the physics coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 17, 2008)—Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their industrial partners have won two R&D 100 Awards for innovative fluid sealing and lithium-ion battery technologies.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 15, 2008)—Scientists and researchers have taken a big step closer to a cure for the most common strain of avian influenza, or "bird flu," the potential pandemic that has claimed more than 200 lives and infected nearly 400 people in 14 countries since it was identified in 2003.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 4, 2008)—Analysis and evaluation of plug-in hybrid vehicle performance is faster and better, thanks to a new tool developed by Argonne engineers. Called the Argonne Real-Time Data Acquisition (ARDAQ) system, it provides onboard data collection and diagnostics of PHEVs.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (July 1, 2008)—A new, patented catalyst developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to reliably and economically reduce 95 to 100 percent of the nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel-fueled engines has been licensed to Integrated Fuel Technologies, Inc., a start-up company based in Kirkland, Wash.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 24, 2008) — The Center for Nanoscale Materials' newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful X-ray microscopes.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 23, 2008) — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is providing $1.4 million to a Phase III research project led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to develop high-performance integrated diamond microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices (CMOS) for radar and mobile communications using an Argonne-developed and patented Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD™) film technology.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 23, 2008)—An Illinois Institute of Technology student working on her doctoral thesis at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory Materials Science Division has been accepted to participate in the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 18, 2008) — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual Top500 List of the world's fastest computers.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 12, 2008) – Seungbum Hong, a materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, received the Young Investigator Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics, a prize that recognizes his contributions to the study of a class of materials that could shape the frontier of information technology.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 9, 2008)—The Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, a joint venture of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, has acquired two new instruments that provide an enhanced ability to sequence genomes more quickly and broadly.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 6, 2008)—As the international search for ways to remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the environment intensifies, a team of scientists has identified a process by which marine organisms influence the amount of atmospheric carbon the sea absorbs.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (June 5, 2008)—A new colloidal stabilization method characterized by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may give scientists a new way to control the stability of some colloidal suspensions.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 23, 2008) – More accurate predictions of air-pollution "hot spots" are expected thanks to a new Argonne-developed algorithm that quickly and accurately assimilates observational data into climate models.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 21, 2008) – Scientists have spent 70 years trying to predict the properties of nuclei, but have had to settle for approximate models because computational techniques were not equal to the task. Now they are learning to compute what happens when nuclei collide.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 19, 2008) – Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help with bioremediation of uranium-contaminated land sites.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 16, 2008) – Eric Isaacs, director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, was appointed Argonne's deputy laboratory director for science programs.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 16, 2008) – As the summer travel season begins, many vacation and business travelers will beat jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 15, 2008) – Argonne National Laboratory has signed a memorandum of understanding with Savannah River National Laboratory to collaborate on nuclear energy and environmental management research projects in support of critical U.S. Energy Department needs and other important national priorities.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 13, 2008) – Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have devised a way to eliminate the need for crystallization by using lasers to align large groups of molecules.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 9, 2008) — In their fight against cancer, doctors have just gained an impressive new weapon to add to their arsenal. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a chip that can save lives by diagnosing certain cancers even before patients become symptomatic.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 8, 2008) – The newest version of the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation (GREET) model from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will provide researchers with even more tools to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of new transportation fuels and advanced vehicle technologies.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (May 6, 2008) – The Advanced Photon Source Users Organization has named Oleg G. Shpyrko as the recipient of the 2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 29, 2008) – George W. Crabtree, a senior scientist and administrator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 25, 2008) — When Argonne materials scientists Arun Wagh and Dileep Singh initially developed Ceramicrete®, a novel phosphate cement that stabilizes radioactive waste streams, they did not immediately recognize that with one or two extra ingredients, the cement could solve another problem in the nuclear complex.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 23, 2008) – Argonne Senior Engineer Roger Poeppel recently received the 2008 Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 22, 2008) — For almost half a century, scientists have struggled with plutonium contamination spreading further in groundwater than expected, increasing the risk of sickness in humans and animals.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 21, 2008) – The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory today celebrated the dedication of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility during a ceremony attended by key federal, state and local officials.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 15, 2008) — They may never win an Oscar, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed techniques for creating accurate movies of biological and chemical molecules, a feat only theorized up until now.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 4, 2008) – Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental state of matter created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with several European institutions. This discovery opens new directions of inquiry in condensed matter physics and breaks ground for a new generation of microelectronics.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (April 1, 2008) — As gas prices continue to soar to record highs, motorists are crying out for an alternative that won't cramp their pocketbooks. Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are answering that call by working to chemically manipulate algae for production of the next generation of renewable fuels – hydrogen gas.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 28, 2008) – Independent tests conducted by engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory on the mono-fueled version of the BMW Hydrogen 7 prototype have found that the car's hydrogen-powered engine surpasses the super-ultra low-emission vehicle level, the most stringent emissions performance standard to date.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 25, 2008) — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has announced the opening of the Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center in suburban Chicago.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 22, 2008) — A team from Pekin High School, Pekin, Ill., today won the 10th annual Illinois State Championship Rube Goldberg Machine, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, at the Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 21, 2008) — In Murdock, Neb., a small village south of Omaha, Argonne planted more than 2,000 trees in 2005. These new flora not only improve the wildlife habitat and provide aesthetic recreational value, but they also play a key role in an integrated plan to take up and degrade the carbon tetrachloride that has contaminated the community's water.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 17, 2008) — Students from across the state will flip burgers and toss condiments during the 10th annual Illinois State Championship Rube Goldberg machine contest, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 14, 2008) – Scientists may gain a new insight into the relationship between viruses and their environments thanks to a new computational technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. This technology has already been used to identify subtle differences in the metabolic processes of microbial communities.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 13, 2008) — Strontium 90 is a common radioactive by-product of fission in nuclear power plants. When extracted from the reactor along with other isotopes, a mixture is created made up of the radioactive material and inert ions like sodium and calcium.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 13, 2008) — The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Toda Kogyo Corp. of Japan have reached a world-wide licensing agreement for the commercial production and sales of Argonne's patented composite cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, which result in longer-lasting, safer batteries for hybrid-electric vehicles, cell phones, laptop computers and other applications.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (March 7, 2007) – Researchers at the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics, the Structural Genomics Consortium and the Structural Biology Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique for crystallizing proteins that will ease experimentation into protein structures.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb 29, 2008) — Today, researchers in the U.S. ATLAS collaboration joined colleagues around the world to celebrate a pivotal landmark in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider – the lowering of the final piece of the ATLAS particle detector into the underground collision hall at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 22, 2008) — The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research performed at the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 22, 2008) — A team from Wilmington High School today won Argonne National Laboratory's 13 th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest held at Chicago Children's Museum on Navy Pier.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 21, 2008) –Senior Physicist Robert Von Dreele of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has been voted vice president of the American Crystallographic Association.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 19, 2007) – X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed a lensless X-ray technique that can take images of ultra-small structures buried in nanoparticles and nanomaterials, and features within whole biological cells such as cellular nuclei.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 19, 2008) — Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 14, 2008)—During opening testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Argonne's Don Hillebrand noted that while the United States is the dominant player in the development of battery materials and chemistries for hybrid vehicles and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles with the help of progressive research conducted at U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, including Argonne, the nation lags behind the world in adopting capabilities to make such batteries.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 13, 2008) — The food will be anything but fast as local high school students compete to build a hamburger using at least 20 steps during in Argonne National Laboratory's 13th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Friday, Feb. 22.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 8, 2008) — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed new state-of-the-art techniques that will lead to significant improvements in the performance of superconducting niobium cavities. Argonne's superconducting spoke cavities can operate at lower temperatures and at higher magnetic fields than previous designs, translating into a potential savings in the cost of a heavy-ion linear accelerator, such as that required for the proposed Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 6, 2008)—Young women from throughout the area will learn about opportunities in science and engineering during the annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Thursday, Feb. 21, at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 5, 2008) — A new environmentally friendly technology created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory may revolutionize the production of the world's most commonly produced organic compound, ethylene.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 1, 2008) — The future of global energy, next-generation solar cells, artificial photosynthesis and thermoelectric materials are the central topics at the Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center's (ANSER) inaugural symposium, to be held Feb. 12-13 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 29, 2008)—Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under pressure.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (January 25, 2008) — The most neutron-rich matter that can be made on Earth—the nucleus of the helium-8 atom—has been created, trapped and characterized by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. This new measurement gives rise to several significant consequences in nuclear theory and the study of neutron stars.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 24, 2008) — The discoveries of tomorrow will be made by the students of today, but they first must be exposed to the world of science and technology.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (January 23, 2008) — Two physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been honored for their work in creating one of the nation's premiere science programs for high school students.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 22, 2008) — The American Physical Society (APS) has recently announced new fellows for 2007, and six Argonne scientists have been elected.More ...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 17, 2008) — Twenty research projects have been awarded more than 111 million hours of computing time at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 11, 2008) — Proteins, the biological molecules that are involved in virtually every action of every organism, may themselves move in surprising ways, according to a recent study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory that may shed new light on how proteins interact with drugs and other small molecules.More...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan.7, 2008) – The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory today announced the shutdown of its Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS), one of the most productive neutron scattering facilities in the world, as the result of the fiscal year 2008 spending bill approved by Congress prior to the holidays. Moreover, the lab may have to scale back other operations at its Advanced Photon Source (APS) and High Energy Physics (HEP) Division due to lack of funding.More ...

ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 3, 2008) — CNN's "Situation Room" recently focused on Argonne technologies with anti-terrorism applications. Video clips are available online.More...

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