Science Highlights
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Researchers conduct community climate model simulation Rob Jacob, a computational climate scientist in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, collaborated on a two-decade simulation of a prototype version of the Community Climate System M |
August 1, 2010 | |
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Cementing the structure of concrete Portland cement concrete is one of the most versatile and useful building materials ever created. |
August 1, 2010 | |
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What happens to organic molecules on Mars? The ongoing search for evidence of past or present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds and biomarkers, such as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date remains a |
August 1, 2010 | |
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Mysteries of the nuclear landscape Approximately 3,000 nuclei are already known, and twice as many could, in principle, still be discovered experimentally. |
September 1, 2010 | |
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Argonne researchers show impact of soil vegetation and moisture on carbon recovery Argonne National Laboratory Biosciences Division ecologist Julie Jastrow and colleagues recently published work showing the impact of soil vegetation and moisture on terrestrial carbon recovery. |
September 1, 2010 | |
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A boring material, "stretched", could lead to an electronics revolution The oxide compound europium titanate is fairly boring on its own, but sliced nanometers thin and chemically stretched on a specially-designed template, it takes on properties that could revolutioni |
October 1, 2010 | |
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Spin signatures of photogenerated radical anions Photovoltaic (PV) cells are the most promising man-made devices for direct solar energy utilization. |
October 1, 2010 | |
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Argonne bioremediation effort in Kansas is cleaning up contaminants Last year, a team of Argonne scientists led by Lorraine LaFreniere injected iron microparticles underneath fields polluted with carbon tetrachloride near Centralia, Kansas. |
October 1, 2010 | |
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Magnetic switching under pressure Argonne and Eastern Washington University scientists, working at the Advanced Photon Source, have harnessed the power of extreme high pressure and discovered a novel approach |
December 1, 2010 | |
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Quantum-Dot-Induced Transparency in a Nanoscale Plasmonic Resonator Electrodynamic simulations show that a single semiconductor nanocrystal can induce nearly complete transparency in the optical scattering and extinction of a metal nanostructu |
December 1, 2010 |