Feature Stories
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Opening windows for new spintronic studies A surprising discovery could potentially offer major advantages in speed, heat dissipation and power consumption in electronic devices. |
February 22, 2018 | |
Regional competition tests knowledge and inspires the next generation to reach towards their future Thirteen middle school teams faced off at Oswego East High School for the 28th annual Department of Energy Regional Science Bowl in January. |
February 9, 2018 | |
Closing the loop on battery recycling Argonne’s closed-loop battery recycling model shows a vivid picture of total costs as well as environmental impacts. |
January 25, 2018 | |
Power hour Argonne’s Education department partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago and sent 50 scientists to Chicago area schools in December as part of the global Hour of Code. |
January 15, 2018 | |
Printing on patrol What if our military could dramatically reduce the amount of materials and equipment held on the front lines by printing only what they need? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are aiming to do this with new advances in 3-D printing. |
January 15, 2018 | |
IME scientists dig deep in soil for data to improve agriculture, pollution Soil is incredibly complex — full of organisms, microbes and chemicals that move and change constantly — and it all feeds into crop health and the Earth’s nutrient cycles in ways that aren’t fully understood. Recent advances in wireless data communications and the growing revolution of portable, cheap sensors have made it possible for scientists, including Profs. Monisha Ghosh and Supratik Guha, to start a pilot program to take real-time soil measurements. |
January 12, 2018 | |
New Argonne decontamination system improves safety and eases complexity Argonne researchers have created a new technique that decontaminates urban areas faster than any other approach. The technology is simple and uses widely available materials and tools to clean and isolate radioactivity quickly, helping to restore basic services and reduce the radiation exposure of emergency personnel. |
January 4, 2018 | |
Reaching the Department of Energy’s ‘Top 40’ The U.S. Department of Energy honors Argonne researchers in top 40 research-paper countdown. |
January 3, 2018 | |
Nine ways Argonne advanced science and technology in 2017 As 2018 approaches, Argonne looks back at nine cool stories that came out of research projects and collaborations at the laboratory. |
December 21, 2017 | |
‘Hot’ electrons heat up solar energy research Argonne research has shown how hybrid nanomaterials may be used to convert light energy more efficiently for applications in photocatalysis, photovoltaics and ultrafast optics. |
December 20, 2017 |