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Scientists take X-ray aim in effort to discover new fuel catalyst

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

In a new study of a related group of metal oxides made of cobalt, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory sought to determine why two similar water-splitting catalysts with somewhat different domain sizes behaved differently.

Argonne researchers develop new method to reduce quantum noise

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New method for alleviating the effects of "noise" in quantum information systems addresses a challenge that scientists around the globe are working to meet in the race toward a new era of quantum technologies.

Journal: Physical Review A

New tools in transportation

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new version of the AFLEET Tool from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory calculates and compares the costs and environmental benefits of a broad range of alternative fuel technologies. Covering 18 fuel/vehicle technologies, AFLEET Online offers an easy-to-use web-based platform.

Funder: Vehicle Technologies Office, DOE/US Department of Energy

Dark Energy Survey completes six-year mission

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

After scanning in depth about a quarter of the southern skies for six years and cataloguing hundreds of millions of distant galaxies, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) finished taking data on Jan. 9.

Success after a three-year sprint

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The first prototype detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is taking data and producing extraordinary pictures of particle tracks.

Building a foundation

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

On October 24, the Chicago Chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (CHIBPSA) introduced a scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students named after Ralph Muehleisen, a building scientist and engineer at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

Superinsulators to become scientists' quark playgrounds

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists widely accept the existence of quarks, the elusive fundamental particles that make up protons and neutrons. But information about their properties is still lacking.

Journal: Communications Physics

Chicago-area scientists use improv to educate through laughter

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Eleven Chicago scientists-turned-comedians -- many of whom hail from some of the nation's most renowned research institutes, including the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory -- cast aside their lab coats for a chance to educate the public through unconventional means.

Equipping the next generation for a technological revolution

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

How do we prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers for future success when the problems they will solve have yet to be defined?

Stronger, lighter, greener

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A new award-winning magnet technology invented at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory could help drive the nation's transition from gas-powered vehicles to electric and hybrid power more rapidly, at lower cost, and in a more environmentally friendly way.