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Argonne environmental engineer Gayathri Gopalakrishnan studies potential biofuel crops at Argonne National Laboratory.
 Roadsides, contaminated fields could be unlikely solutions to fuel shortages, water pollution

In a new study, environmental scientists Cristina Negri and Gayathri Gopalakrishnan of Argonne National Laboratory considered a new idea: using contaminated and unused land to grow crops for biofuel.

 August 11, 2009
Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

Argonne National Laboratory will open its gates to the community on Saturday, August 29, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a day of discovery and fun for the whole family. The event is free and open to the public.

 August 3, 2009
Argonne scientists are working to improve techniques for capturing complex visualizations like this astrophysics simulation, which seeks to discover the mechanism behind the violent death of short-lived, massive stars. The image shows entropy values in the core of the supernova; different colors and transparencies are assigned to different values of entropy. By selectively adjusting the color and transparency, the scientist can peel away outer layers and see values in the interior of the 3-D volume.
 Seeking efficiency, scientists run visualizations directly on supercomputers

These days, many scientists generate quadrillions of data points for visualizations of everything from supernovas to protein structures—and they’re quickly overwhelming current computing capabilities. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are exploring other ways to speed up the process, using a technique called software-based parallel volume rendering.

 July 30, 2009
250 interns from all levels of education gather for a seminar at Argonne.
Argonne welcomes summer interns

This summer, 250 students from around the country will work to solve some of the nation’s most pressing scientific issues at Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne's internships encourage students, teachers and postdoctoral researchers to continue to mature as future scientists and engineers who will make tomorrow’s important discoveries.

 July 28, 2009
Argonne attains ISO 9001, 14001 certifications

Argonne National Laboratory has been certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 international standards for business practices and environmental management, respectively, after nearly two years of work on the part of hundreds of employees.

 July 28, 2009
The 1,000th protein structure is a dehydrogenase from the bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea. The enzyme is capable of generating harmful reactive oxygen species and has been implicated in neurodegeneration, ischemia-reperfusion, cancer and several other disorders.
 Argonne's Midwest Center for Structural Genomics determines 1,000th protein structure

For nearly a decade, researchers at the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics, an international consortium led by Andrzej Joachimiak at Argonne National Laboratory, have been patiently cracking the genetic code of important proteins. On Friday, July 17, they deposited their 1,000th protein structure into the Protein Data Bank.

 July 27, 2009
Tijana Rajh won the Association for Women in Science-Chicago chapter's third annual Innovator Award.
 Argonne chemist wins AWIS Innovator Award for nanoparticle research

The Chicago chapter of the Association for Women in Science granted its third annual Innovator Award to Tijana Rajh, group leader of the Nanobio Interfaces research group at Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Nanoscale Materials.

 July 21, 2009
A scientist loads gears for coating with Argonne's superhard and slick material, which increases efficiency and component reliability in engines used in transportation as well as tools used in manufacturing. Argonne won an R&D 100 award for the superhard and slick material.
 Argonne researchers win five R&D 100 awards

Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory received five R&D 100 awards as judged by R&D Magazine.

 July 21, 2009
The graphic illustrates the number of attacks from various countries that Argonne and other national labs receive at any one time and how the new program will allow the labs to be forewarned. If one lab is attacked, the information is relayed to other laboratories so they can put up safeguards.
 Argonne develops program for cyber security “Neighborhood Watch”

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory devised a program that allows for cyber security defense systems to communicate when attacked and transmit that information to cyber systems at other institutions in the hopes of strengthening the overall cyber security posture of the complex.

 July 16, 2009
Crystal structure of the anthrax protein CapD.
 Researchers image crucial anthrax protein

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Chicago, have determined the structure of a protein crucial to the virulence of anthrax bacteria.

 July 14, 2009
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