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Argonne recently hosted an InnovationXLab Summit on Artificial Intelligence. The event drew approximately 400 scientists, engineers and policymakers to discuss how national laboratories and industry could together reap the potential benefits of AI. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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InnovationXLab Summit brings industry, national laboratories together around artificial intelligence

Summit kicks off the conversation between laboratories, companies about how AI can transform society.

Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science/Data Analysis

Results from a new method for analyzing disordered crystalline materials. Red sites occupied with high probability; blue sites largely unoccupied. Image shows sodium ions conform to zig-zag pattern when intercalated into vanadium oxide. Pattern repeats in all three dimensions over about 10 nm. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Argonne multidisciplinary team develops new probe for battery research: Strength in numbers

Argonne team develops powerful technique for probing in three dimensions the crystalline structure of cathode materials at the nanoscale.

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Scientists at Argonne have used an X-ray technique to discover the properties of chocolate’s microstructure that contribute to a pleasing mouthfeel. (Image by Shutterstock / Africa Studio.)

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How sweet: Researchers find what makes chocolate melt in your mouth

Scientists use X-rays to see the true nature of chocolate.

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Ian Foster (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Argonne’s Ian Foster named SC Distinguished Scientist Fellow

Newly established Department of Energy award will provide $1 million in funding to support Foster’s pioneering research on data, computing and artificial intelligence.

Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science/Data Analysis

The 2019 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) hosted 73 participants for two weeks of instruction on the tools and approaches needed to use the world's most powerful supercomputers for computational science and engineering research. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Argonne training program prepares researchers for scientific computing in the exascale era

Lasting two weeks, the rigorous ATPESC program provides participants with invaluable high-performance computing skills and tools that they can later apply to their home institutions and research projects.

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Genetic differences in the immune system shape the microbiome

UChicago Medicine

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Artificial Intelligence: Transforming science, improving lives

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Peering into batteries: X-rays reveal lithium-ion’s mysteries

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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.

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(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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Unique spectral response in a mechanical device

Using a single actuation signal, a frequency comb is generated in a micromechanical resonator from two vibrational modes, flexural and torsional, whose interactions are responsible for the unique response.

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