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Battery researcher wins Argonne-Northwestern Early Career Award

Materials scientist Lynn Trahey of Argonne has received the 2012 Northwestern-Argonne Early Career Investigator Award for Energy Research for her proposal to investigate new materials to improve the performance of anodes in lithium-ion batteries.

 June 7, 2012
To test how wind energy affects carbon dioxide emissions, Argonne scientists modeled the Illinois electric grid to test how more wind power would affect the system. Image courtesy Sharon Loxton.
 Grid realities cancel out some of wind power’s carbon savings

Wind energy lowers carbon emissions, but adding turbines to the current grid system does not eliminate emissions proportionally, according to a report by researchers at Argonne.

 May 29, 2012
Pete Beckman, Director, Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne has been appointed co-director of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering
 Joint initiative expands focus to materials design

Argonne and Northwestern University have appointed Pete Beckman, Director, Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne, and Peter W. Voorhees, Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern, as co-directors of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering.

 May 16, 2012
At a White House meeting of science and technology leaders, Argonne Director Eric Isaacs today announced the laboratory's major new efforts with Northwestern University and the University of Chicago to advance the research and development of new materials to help solve the nation’s challenges in the fields of energy, health and security.
 Argonne, Universities partner to design advanced materials

Argonne today announced major new efforts with Northwestern University and the University of Chicago to advance the research and development of new materials to help solve the nation’s challenges in the fields of energy, health and security.

 May 14, 2012
Four Argonne National Laboratory scientists receive Early Career Research Program awards

Four researchers at Argonne have received 2012 Early Career Research Program awards, granted to exceptional researchers beginning their careers.

 May 10, 2012
A Nephila clavipes female spider in the center of her web. The radial strands and scaffolding of her web is composed of major and minor ampullate spider silk fibers. Commonly referred to as dragline silk, this substance was imaged at the nanoscale at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. Image by Jeff Yarger.
Untangling the mysteries of spider silk

Spiders weave a web even more tangled than originally thought – at least on the nanoscale level, according to a new study performed at Argonne National Laboratory.

 May 2, 2012
Crystal structure of the mu-opioid receptor bound to a morphinan antagonist. Image courtesy of Aashish Manglik, Andrew C. Kruse, Tong Sun Kobilka, Foon Sun Thian, Jesper M. Mathiesen, Roger K. Sunahara, Leonardo Pardo, William I. Weis, Brian K. Kobilka & Sébastien Granier
 How heroin works: Imaging opioid receptors in the brain

Researchers and doctors have gleaned new clues to the molecular mechanisms behind some of the most addictive substances in the world, thanks to two new studies that uncovered the structures of some of the most intricate and challenging proteins ever analyzed on the atomic level.

 April 24, 2012
A new institute will help scientists process data from complex simulations. Above: a simulation of a complete helicopter combustion chamber, performed on the IBM Blue Gene/P at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Image courtesy Pierre Wolf, Turbomeca and CERFACS.
 New institute to tackle "data tsunami" challenge

A new institute will help scientists process data from complex simulations. Above: a simulation of a complete helicopter combustion chamber, performed on the IBM Blue Gene/P at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Image courtesy Pierre Wolf, Turbomeca and CERFACS.

 April 18, 2012
Microbes live everywhere, including this community living on a Maine beach and photographed with a scanning electron microscope. Image courtesy of the Lewis Lab at Northeastern University. Image created by Anthony D'Onofrio, William H. Fowle, Eric J. Stewart and Kim Lewis.
Predicting the microbial “weather”

Environmental microbiologist Jack Gilbert heads the Earth Microbiome Project, an initiative to sample and analyze DNA from bacteria, viruses, algae and fungi across the world. Our environment is full of microbes that affect everything from human health to climate change, and these microbes are constantly in flux. One of the project’s goals is to develop models that can predict fluctuations in advance.

 April 16, 2012
Scientists have calculated a new value for the half-life of samarium, an isotope used to track how our solar system came into being. Above: Superheated plasma loops following a solar flare eruption. (Photo credit NASA/GSFC/SDO.)
 New isotope measurement could alter history of early solar system

The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according to research at Argonne published in Science. The study used more sensitive instruments to find a different half-life for samarium, one of the isotopes used to chart the evolution of the solar system.

 April 2, 2012
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