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Scientists in Microsoft Quantum Lab Delft conducting research in pursuit of a topologically protected qubit. Microsoft is one of seven new computing, tech and finance companies to join the Chicago Quantum Exchange. (Image by Microsoft.)

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Chicago Quantum Exchange welcomes seven new partners in tech, computing and finance, to advance research and training

The Chicago-based research hub expands to include 13 total industry leaders in tech, computing, finance.

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Department of Energy awards $3.15 million to Argonne to support collaborations with industry

Awards come from DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund.

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Members of the collaboration that built the new instrument at the APS. From left: Michael Sangid, Purdue University; Aaron Stebner, Colorado School of Mines; Bob Suter, Carnegie Mellon University; Ashley Spear, University of Utah; and Jonathan Almer, X-ray Science Division, Argonne. Photo taken Dec. 2019.

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High-throughput X-ray diffraction instrument comes to Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source

A consortium of institutions has joined with Argonne to build a new X-ray diffraction instrument for users of the APS, one that will enable materials research and clear the way for improvements in advance of the APS Upgrade.

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Argonne scientists will apply their expertise in offshore natural gas safety and to the Eastern Mediterranean’s Levant Basin. The five-year collaborative project is one of three recent awards given by U.S.-Israel Energy Center. (Image by Shutterstock / Xmentoys.)

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Argonne to advance energy security and safety with funds from U.S.-Israel Energy Center

Researchers at Argonne will share advances in offshore drilling safety and technology in the Eastern Mediterranean with a new five-year grant from the U.S.-Israel Energy Center.

This artist’s concept shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B. The composition of such water worlds has fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists for years. (Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech.)

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Beneath the surface of our galaxy’s water worlds

A team of researchers simulated conditions on water-rich exoplanets in the laboratory and learned something surprising about their geological composition.

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Argonne National Laboratory Deploys Cerebras CS-1, the World’s Fastest Artificial Intelligence Computer

U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory Leverages Unprecedented Performance from Cerebras CS-1 to Solve Deep Learning Computational and Science Problems

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Analytical Chemist Yifen Tsai prepares a sample for analysis on the high-resolution ICP-Mass Spectrometer.

Correcting nonlinearity and mass-bias in measurements by ICP quadrupole mass spectrometry

Argonne scientists have demonstrated a technique that can improve the relative standard deviation in the measurement of inorganic isotopes by ICP-QMS by an order of magnitude or more.

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MOFs for Methane Manipulation

Researchers using the Advanced Photon Source have found a way to “activate” methane so that it can be converted into products like liquid fuels, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers, and much more.

Analytical Chemistry, X-Ray Science and Technology

(Left) Electrons transiting the 80 mm long metamaterial structure generate high power microwaves. (Right) Photo of the beam line at the ANL Wakefield Test Accelerator

Metamaterials for next-generation accelerators

An experiment at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator demonstrates the potential of a novel metamaterial structure to yield higher accelerating gradients than current particle accelerator technology provides.

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