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Walter Massey meets former President Jimmy Carter. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Argonne’s first Black director reflects on science, inequality and a new honor

Walter Massey, the lab’s first Black director, looks back on his time at Argonne and talks about the inequities of minorities in science in light of a new Argonne Fellowship named for him.

Nuclear Reactors, X-Ray Science and Technology, STEM Outreach

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Argonne climate model helps Pacific Gas and Electric Company combat climate change impacts, including wildfires

Argonne is providing data from its high-resolution climate model to help a major U.S. utility safeguard its current infrastructure and better plan for the future in a changing climate.

Computational Science, Modeling and Simulation, Environmental and Earth Science

Graphical representation of the proton. The large spheres represent the three valence quarks, the small spheres represent the other quarks that make up the proton, and the springs represent the nuclear force holding them together. (Image by Brookhaven National Laboratory.)

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Nature’s funhouse mirror: understanding asymmetry in the proton

Asymmetry in the proton confounds physicists, but a new discovery may bring back old theories to explain it.

Medium Energy Physics, Particle Physics, Theory

3D image of neurons in the brain of a schizophrenia patient

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Seeing schizophrenia: X-rays shed light on neural differences, point toward treatment

An international research team used the ultrabright X-rays of the Advanced Photon Source to examine neurons in the brains of schizophrenia patients. What they learned may help neurologists treat this harmful brain disorder.

Biology, Animal Biology, Neuroscience

UC San Diego researchers Haodong Liu and Ping Liu hold batteries made with the disordered rocksalt anode material they discovered, standing in front of a device used to fabricate battery pouch cells. (Image by University of California San Diego.)

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Worth their salt: New battery anodes use salt for energy, stability

New lithium battery components could use a form of salt for greater stability and activity.

Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, X-Ray Science and Technology

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UChicago, Argonne scientists zero in on molecules that could fight COVID-19

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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.

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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

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