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Argonne leverages machine learning to adaptively recognize threats

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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.

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A research team led by Princeton University is using supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory to perform large-scale 3D simulations aimed at determining the mechanism of core-collapse supernova explosions.

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Argonne researchers to share scientific computing insights at SC19

Several Argonne researchers will attend the Supercomputing 2019 (SC19) conference to share scientific computing advances and insights with an eye toward the upcoming exascale era.

Computational Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

Group of cross-disciplinary scientists are studying ways in which hackers may target vehicles and electric charging infrastructure.

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Multi-disciplinary Argonne team puts brakes on vehicle hacking

Will hackers target your car with ransomware? Argonne’s cybersecurity experts gauge the risk of cyberattacks on vehicles.

Computational Science, Transportation Systems, Supercomputer

Scanning tunneling microscopy topography of a rippled MoS2 single layer as a result of strain relaxation (bottom). The corresponding dI/dV map at the valence band edge (middle), and the strain map (top) are overlaid.

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Scientists discover “ripple” in flexible material that could improve electronic properties

A newly discovered phenomenon in a flexible semiconductor could affect its promise for electronic devices.

Materials Science and Engineering, Nanomaterials, Semiconductors and Superconductors

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Argonne nuclear engineer J’Tia Hart selected to Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40”

Argonne nuclear engineer honored for her outreach efforts

Global Security, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Engineering

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Argonne lends a hand toward climate and weather understanding

Environmental and Earth Science, Atmospheric Science

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ALCF Selects New Projects for Data Science Program

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New Clues in the Hunt for a Room-Temperature Superconductor

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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.

Accelerator Physics, Physics

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.

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nanofabrication

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