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Argonne engineers are making new rocket and aircraft engines easier and cheaper to design and test

Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar discusses quantum on Argonne’s quantum loop.

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Argonne and UChicago scientists take important step in developing national quantum internet

Real-world experiment in Chicago suburbs achieves quantum entanglement across 52-mile fiber network

Quantum Computing, quantum networks, Quantum Information Science

Argonne National Laboratory Director Paul K. Kearns (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

Awards and Recognition

Paul K. Kearns named 2020 FLC Laboratory Director of the Year

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has selected Paul Kearns, Argonne National Laboratory director, as Laboratory Director of the Year.

Awards and Recognition, Leadership

Azucena Rodriguez, Argonne Learning Lab Instructor, leads a classroom of Kenwood Academy high school students on how to teach IBM Watson to determine the difference between a red and green light. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Chicago Public School students go beyond coding and explore artificial intelligence with Argonne National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory’s Educational Programs and Outreach department hosted Computer Science for All — Coding and Beyond, in December as a part of the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, initiative.

Computational Science, Computational Methods, Computer Science and Engineering

Hydropower could be a clutch player in helping global energy markets integrate solar and wind energy into the power grid.

Feature Story

Utility player: How hydropower can help get more wind and solar on the grid

A white paper from the International Energy Agency details how hydropower can help ease the global addition of wind and solar to the resource mix on power grids. Argonne’s Audun Botterud offered his expertise as a co-author.

Hydrology, Hydropower, Water Power Technologies

R&D 100 award winners, Guojun Hu, Rui Hu, and Ling Zou.

Press Release

Argonne leads award-winning collaboration with Kairos Power that unveils new simulation of nuclear power plants

Argonne scientists won a 2019 R&D 100 award for collaborating with Kairos Power to create software that simulates entire nuclear power plants.

Computational Science, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Physics

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Site Access Protocol Changed Due to Coronavirus

Coronavirus

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Creating the Heart of a Quantum Computer: Developing Qubits

Energy.gov

Feature Story

Argonne’s Mira supercomputer set to retire after years of enabling groundbreaking science

High Performance Computing, Modeling and Simulation, Computational Science

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Advanced Photon Source Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Research Facility - Southern Great Plains Center for Nanoscale Materials

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Argonne Research Facilities

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Argonne fosters innovation by uniting teams of researchers on challenges to overcome scientific barriers. Our collaborative centers and institutes bring together the best minds from academia, industry, and the national labs.

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Research Highlights

Our scientists conduct research that advances the frontiers of science and creates new knowledge. Here you will find some of our most recent research highlights.

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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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Seminar

Examining Lanthanide Production in Merger Accretion Disk Winds: Nuclear Masses and the Rare-Earth Peak

Physics Seminar

February 24, 2020|3:30 PM | Building 203

Colloquium

Making Qubits Out of Molecules, and Studying Molecules Using Qubits

February 25, 2020|11:00 AM | Building 241

Seminar

Machine-Learned Reduced-Order Models for Advective Partial Differential Equations

February 26, 2020|10:30 AM | Building 240

Seminar

A Study of Biosensors Based on Layered Semiconductors: from Characteristics to Nanofabrication Approaches

February 27, 2020|11:00 AM | Building 241

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