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Argonne has recently become a source of therapeutic radioisotopes for the medical community, enabling novel treatments

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Lin Chen receives Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry

Energy Conversion, Physical Chemistry, Awards and Recognition

David Cook, a recently retired Argonne meteorologist, performs maintenance on an eddy correlation flux measurement tower, operated by the DOE-funded Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program, in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The tower exemplifies one of several types of instrumentation used to generate the data in this study.

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Rising global temperatures turn northern permafrost region into significant carbon source

Comprehensive study highlights the need for more research on CO₂ emissions in the permafrost region.

Environmental and Earth Science, Atmospheric Science, Climate Science

PhD student Paul Jerger adjusts the mount that lets researchers rotate and position their magnet.

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Creating and observing current vortices in 2D materials

Surprise result brings us one step closer to designing more flexible technologies

Scientific Data Management, Quantum Information Science

Neutron detector based on a single crystal of LiInP2Se6 .

Press Release

Scientists pioneer new generation of semiconductor neutron detector

Scientists discover new neutron-detecting material for applications in science and national security

Global Security, Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Argonne scientists, (left to right) Sean Sullivan, Gary Wolfowicz, Joseph Heremans and Alan Dibos, worked on the quantum loop project and demonstrated the operation of the testbed by generating, transmitting, and detecting optical pulses through one and then both fiber loops.

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New quantum loop provides long national testbed for quantum communication technology

Argonne, UChicago scientists perform initial measurements through a 52-mile fiber-optic testbed

Quantum Information Science

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How insects cope with the effects of gravity

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The Big Questions: Ian Foster on High-Performance Computing

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Argonne’s debt to 2019 Nobel Prize for lithium-ion battery

Energy Technology and Storage, ReCell, batteries

Discoverers of the NMC cathode and manufacturing process, left to right: Khalil Amine, Michael Thackeray, and Christopher Johnson. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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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

High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence

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.

Analytical Chemistry

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

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