Argonne Press Room

Recent News Releases and Feature Stories

• Feature: Argonne scientists discover novel materials approach to fighting cancer (Feb. 8, 2010)
• Argonne scientists awarded supercomputing time to accelerate discoveries (Jan. 26, 2010)
• Argonne scientist awarded $2.5 million for Early Career Research Program (Jan. 22, 2010)
• Feature: Using supercomputers to explore nuclear energy (Jan. 21, 2010)
• Feature: Funding to push battery technology from Argonne Laboratory to marketplace (Jan. 19, 2010)
• Argonne scientists squeeze more out of metal-organic framework (Jan. 12, 2010)
• Feature: Argonne gets wind of new energy models (Jan. 11, 2010)
• Argonne National Laboratory to host annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (Jan. 7, 2010)
• Argonne researcher named 2009 AAAS Fellow (Jan. 6, 2010)
• Feature: Argonne streaming visualization sends images across the world (Jan. 4, 2010)
• Feature: Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline (Dec. 18, 2009)

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• User Facilities — Attracting great minds to solve scientific problems (PDF)
• Advanced Photon Source — The Western Hemisphere's most brilliant X-rays for research (PDF)
• Center for Nanoscale Materials — A new center for the study of nano-sized materials (PDF)

Computing Science

• Computing Science — Developing new computing technologies for the new millenium (PDF)
• Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (PDF)
• Bioinformatics — Biologists and computer scientists join forces to lead biology revolution (PDF)
• Digital Bacteria — AgentCell software simulates cell populations as they sense, respond to their environment (PDF)

Energy and Environmental Research

• Sustainable Nuclear Energy — Disposing of nuclear waste and making future reactors safer, more economical (PDF)
• Transportation Research — Argonne's transportation research focuses on DOE goals (PDF

Life Sciences and Medicine

• Bioscience — A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the fundamental mechanisms of life (PDF)
• Midwest Center for Structural Genomics — Cutting the time and cost of solving protein structures (PDF)
• Pharmaceutical research at the Advanced Photon Source (PDF)
• Rapid cooling technology could aid surgery patients, heart attack victims (PDF)
• Structural Biology Center — The world's most productive and efficient facility for solving the structure of proteins (PDF)

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DOE Pulse

DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Departmentof Energy's national laboratories. DOE's laboratories house world-class facilities where more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research spanning DOE's science, energy, national security and environmental quality missions. DOE Pulse is distributed twice each month. Each issue will include research highlights, updates on collaborations among laboratories and profiles of individual researchers.

Internships

The Communications & Public Affairs Division is offering a full-time science-writing internship for Summer 2009. More information, including requirements, can be found here.