ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 13, 2008) — The food will be anything but fast as local high school students compete to build a hamburger using at least 20 steps during Argonne National Laboratory’s 13th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Friday, Feb. 22.
ARGONNE, Ill. — Young women from throughout the area will learn about opportunities in science and engineering during the annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Thursday, Feb. 21, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.
ARGONNE, Ill. — A new environmentally friendly technology created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory may revolutionize the production of the world’s most commonly produced organic compound: ethylene.
The conference will open with an evening public lecture, “The Global Energy Perspective,” by Nathan Lewis of Caltech. Other prominent speakers represent Argonne, Northwestern, MIT and the University of Uppsala (Sweden).
ARGONNE, Ill. — Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under pressure.
ARGONNE, Ill. (Jan. 24, 2008) — The discoveries of tomorrow will be made by the students of today, but they first must be exposed to the world of science and technology.
ARGONNE, Ill. — Two physicists at the U.S. Department’s Argonne National Laboratory have been honored for their work in creating one of the nation’s premiere science programs for high school students.
ARGONNE, Ill. — Proteins, the biological molecules that are involved in virtually every action of every organism, may themselves move in surprising ways.
