Feature Stories
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Blood vessel simulation probes secrets of brain Zoom down to one artery in your body, and the commotion is constant: blood cells hurtle down the passage with hundreds of their kin, bumping against other cells and the walls as they go. The many variables—and the sheer immensity of the human circulatory system—have kept scientists from closely documenting the rough-and-tumble life inside blood vessels. |
April 13, 2011 |
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Model Fuel Cell Car Competition: Fueling future scientists and engineers Fuel cells have been used to power spacecrafts for years and on Saturday, April 16, 2011, Chicago-area middle school students will use fuel cells to power model cars at equipment manufacturer Case New Holland in Burr Ridge, Ill., as part of the Chicago Regional Science Bowl, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory. |
April 11, 2011 |
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The magnetism—and mystery—of superconductors Superconductors have already given us MRIs, particle accelerators and better cell phone reception, but further improvements could revolutionize technology as we know it. The trouble is, they still hold some of the greatest mysteries in physics. |
April 8, 2011 |
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10 things you may not know about superconductivity 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity, the ability of some materials to conduct electricity with zero energy loss when cooled to extremely low temperatures. Here are 10 things you may not know about superconductivity. |
April 8, 2011 | |
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Argonne Researcher named top five materials scientist of 2000s Argonne scientist Yugang Sun has been recognized as the one of the five top materials scientists in the world over the past decade, according to a new ranking recently released by Thomson Reuters. |
April 1, 2011 |
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Argonne's CARIBU facility opens to study rare nuclei Last week, a stream of highly unusual ions shot through a tiny nozzle at 76 million miles per hour—and CARIBU, a facility designed to study special nuclei normally only created in stars, officially opened for business. |
March 31, 2011 |
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Protein biologists find new chink in staph's armor Using powerful X-ray beams from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign documented how a key enzyme enables staph to make a coating that protects the bacteria from human white blood cells. |
March 24, 2011 | |
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This Thursday, Jeopardy! champions Argonne This national laboratory is a category on the game show Jeopardy! this week. If you answered "What is Argonne National Laboratory?" you'd have buzzed in correctly! |
March 8, 2011 |
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Matthew Tirrell named founding director of UChicago Institute for Molecular Engineering Matthew Tirrell, a pioneering researcher in the fields of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, has been appointed founding Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s new Institute for Molecular Engineering, effective July 1. |
March 7, 2011 |
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Brookings Institution Panel Discussion Argonne director Eric Isaacs and Energy Storage Initiative head Jeff Chamberlain spoke at a panel hosted by the Brookings Institution on February 8, 2011. |
February 8, 2011 |