We tap it, pump it and draw it from below the surface of every imaginable landscape, from desert to well-manicured suburban yard. It is the one essential ingredient required to sustain life. Water.

When best-selling science fiction author Andy Weir stepped on stage at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory this week, it was like he’d walked into a family reunion.

Transmitting signals through the concrete and steel of a nuclear power plant presents challenges even under normal conditions.

Deep inside the Earth exist pockets of water —but the liquid there isn’t like the water on the surface.

Battery researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered an important chemical reaction that resembles the method used to make pickles.

Nisarg Patel didn’t want to join a startup company.

How will the next generation of scientists overcome challenges in physics and energy storage? How will artificial intelligence transform scientific inquiry?

Storms that cause flooding often catch us by surprise. Fortunately, Argonne researchers are using high-performance computers to better predict which areas are likely to flood.

When Argonne environmental analyst Andrew Orr wants to get away from it all, he thinks BIG.

Four decades ago, an ambitious group of women scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory banded together to help form a group that would empower generations of women to come.

On December 2, 1942, as World War II raged, a small group of scientists gathered beneath the football stands of the University of Chicago for a physics experiment that would very literally change the world.