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Hoffman Estates Team #1 poses with the people's choice trophy as well as the overall first place trophy. The team will compete in the Rube Goldberg national finals on Saturday in Pewaukee, Wis. To view the entire photo gallery, click on the image.
 Hoffman Estates wins Argonne's Rube Goldberg Contest

A team from Hoffman Estates High School in Hoffman Estates, Ill., dropped the hammer on the competition at Argonne National Laboratory's 18th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, held today at Argonne.

 March 11, 2013
This wafer of nanocrystalline diamond provides one example of the technology that AKHAN Technologies has licensed from Argonne. To view a larger version of the image, click on it. Photo courtesy Ani Sumant.
 Argonne licenses diamond semiconductor discoveries to AKHAN Technologies

Argonne announced today that the laboratory has granted AKHAN Technologies exclusive diamond semiconductor application licensing rights to breakthrough low-temperature diamond deposition technology developed by the lab's Center for Nanoscale Materials.

 March 4, 2013
NDM-1, present in a number of pathogenic bacteria, including Klebsiella pneumonia and Escherichia coli, is able to defeat many of the world’s most widely used antibiotics, including penicillin derivatives, cephalosporins, monobactams and carbapenems.
 Breakthrough could lead to drugs that better combat 'superbugs'

In the never-ending battle between antibiotic developers and the bacteria they fight, scientists at Argonne have made a key breakthrough that could allow for the development of new drugs to more effectively combat antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.”

 February 28, 2013
CalBattery has worked with Argonne for more than a year under a Work for Others agreement to develop the technology under the Department of Energy's Startup America program, which is part of a White House initiative to inspire and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship.
 Argonne and CalBattery strike deal for silicon-graphene anode material

Argonne and California Lithium Battery, Inc., a Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator portfolio company, announced that they have signed a licensing agreement for an Argonne-developed, silicon-graphene composite anode material for high-energy lithium batteries.

 February 25, 2013
The crowd looks on as a machine is tested during the 2012 Rube Goldberg Contest at Navy Pier in Chicago. To view a larger version of the image, click on it.
Argonne sponsors 2013 Rube Goldberg Contest for local high schoolers

It'll sound like a construction site at the 18th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest when Chicago-area high schools compete to see who built the wackiest machines to hammer a nail into a board in 20 or more steps.

 February 18, 2013
The Argus II can partially restore the sight of blind individuals after surgical implantation. Clinical trials demonstrated that totally blind individuals could safely use the device to successfully identify the position and approximate size of objects and detect movement of nearby objects and people. Photo courtesy Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
 FDA approves first bionic eye for the blind

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today the approval of the first bionic eye for use in the United States. The creation of this retinal prosthesis stems, in part, from DOE support for a decade of revolutionary research with Argonne and several other national labs, universities and companies.

 February 14, 2013
Roosevelt Middle School of River Forest, Ill., competed against 14 other teams in one of the nation’s regional competitions of the 23rd Annual U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl. To view a larger version of the photo as well as more photos from the competition, click on the image. Photo courtesy Argonne National Laboratory
 Roosevelt Middle School wins Argonne Regional Science Bowl and spot in National Finals

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Illinois Representative Danny Davis announced today that Roosevelt Middle School of River Forest, Ill., won the Argonne Regional Science Bowl on Saturday.

 February 12, 2013
This mosaic represents the distribution of superconductivity around holes (white) in a thin sheet of superconducting film. Green indicates strong superconductivity. Further away from the holes, the superconductivity decreases (yellow, red and finally black, where the material is densely populated with vortices that interfere with superconductivity.
 Vortex pinning could lead to superconducting breakthroughs

A team of researchers from Russia, Spain, Belgium, the U.K. and Argonne announced findings last week that may represent a breakthrough in applications of superconductivity.

 February 12, 2013
An illustration of a titanium-europium oxide cage lattice studied in the experiment. To view a larger version of the image, click on it. Image by Renee Carlson.
 New classes of magnetoelectric materials promise advances in computing technology

Thanks to new research by an international team of researchers led by Argonne, physicists have developed new methods for controlling magnetic order in a particular class of materials known as “magnetoelectrics.”

 February 7, 2013
Among the Picasso paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago collection, The Red Armchair is the most emblematic of his Ripolin usage and is the painting that was examined with APS X-rays at Argonne National Laboratory. To view a larger version of the image, click on it. Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg (AIC 1957.72) © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
 High-energy X-rays shine light on mystery of Picasso’s paints

The Art Institute of Chicago teamed up with Argonne National Laboratory to unravel a decades-long debate among art scholars about what kind of paint Picasso used to create his masterpieces.

 February 6, 2013
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