Ian Foster, Argonne Distinguished Fellow and director of the Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute, has been named this year’s winner of the IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing.
Argonne, Ill. – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have revealed previously unobserved behaviors that show how details of the transfer of heat at the nanoscale cause nanoparticles to change shape in ensembles.
On Dec. 11, 2014, Argonne Environmental Microbiologist Jack Gilbert gave a talk titled “Invisible Influence: A Bacterial Guide to Your Health” at the lab as part of the Argonne OutLoud free public lecture series.
In 2005, a semi truck hauling 35,000 pounds of explosives through the Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah crashed and caught fire, causing a dramatic explosion that left a 30- by-70-foot crater in the highway.
In any given year, workers in artisanal and small-scale gold mining shops in remote locales like Brazil and Peru release an estimated 700 tons of airborne mercury from their rooftops.
As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory’s support for its Integrated Imaging Initiative (I3), the Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program has funded three new programs.