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

December 09, 2019

Research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source Leads to New Ebola Drug

December 09, 2019

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Argonne launches First Look@Argonne: A minorities STEM conference

Argonne’s launch of First Look@Argonne helps minority undergrads learn how to apply for internships.

December 03, 2019 | STEM Outreach, Undergraduate Programs, Undergraduate Employment Opportunities

Argonne Laboratory Director Paul Kearns speaking at First Look@Argonne.

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Argonne collaboration shows benefits of better corn residue management strategies

Sustainable corn stover removal can maintain soil carbon stock, according a new Argonne-led study.

December 02, 2019 | Environmental and Earth Science, Climate Science, Land Management

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Argonne and TAE Technologies heating up plasma energy research

Fusion power researchers at TAE Technologies employ Argonne supercomputers to develop magnetic fusion plasma confinement devices as a means to generate unlimited electricity.

November 25, 2019 | Computational Physics, Modeling and Simulation, Multiscale Modeling

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Batteries beyond the Nobel Prize: Q&A with the directors of the national laboratory battery hub

What’s next for batteries? Directors of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research share perspectives on the future of energy storage.

November 20, 2019 | Batteries and Fuel Cells

George Crabtree and Venkat Srinivasan chat with 2019 Nobel laureate John Goodenough

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Argonne researchers team up with local colleagues to develop sub-Saharan energy transition strategies

Argonne engineer helps global research group host workshops in Ghana to launch long-term plan of expanding electrical access in Ghana and other countries.

November 18, 2019 | Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, energy usage

Argonne’s Todd Levin and Carnegie Mellon’s Destenie Nock helped SEN-Africa colleagues from University of Ghana, the University of Cape Town and the University of Nairobi host two workshops to learn about tradeoffs involved with sporadic electrical access. (Image by SEN-Africa.)

New Argonne model helps decision makers predict and plan for the future of electrified transportation

November 18, 2019

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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.

November 15, 2019 | Computational Science, Transportation Systems, Intersections Winter 2020

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

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Automating the development of deep-learning-based predictive models for cancer research

Argonne researchers have created a neural architecture search that automates the development of deep-learning-based predictive models for cancer data.

November 15, 2019 | High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Predicting cancer type and drug response using histopathology images from the National Cancer Institute’s Patient-Derived Models Repository.

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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.

November 15, 2019 | Computational Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence