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Argonne welcomes Martian author Andy Weir

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Best-selling science fiction author Andy Weir visited Argonne to give a series of standing-room-only talks, inspiring students and scientists alike.

Realizing a 'pipe dream'

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Transmitting signals through the concrete and steel of a nuclear power plant presents challenges even under normal conditions. But the loss of electric power at a nuclear plant following an accident would leave no way to send vital information into or out of the harsh environment of a containment building. Now, however, research at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory reveals that communicating through a containment building's metal conduits is no pipe dream.

Three Argonne scientists receive DOE early career awards

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Three Argonne researchers have earned the DOE's 2018 Early Career Research Program awards.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

The science behind pickled battery electrolytes

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne material scientists have discovered a reaction that helps explain the behavior of a key electrolyte additive used to boost battery performance.

Training the next generation of entrepreneurs

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne's fellows in the Applied Research Experience program have a front-row view of entrepreneurship as they help the laboratory's Chain Reaction Innovators achieve research goals.

Celebrating 40 years of empowerment in science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Four decades ago, an ambitious group of women scientists at Argonne banded together to help form a group that would empower generations of women to come. In late May, they celebrated the 40th anniversary of that group, the Chicago Area Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS).

Blast from the past

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists recently reexamined data from the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab taken between 2009 and 2011, and they found the first direct evidence of mono-energetic neutrinos, or neutrinos with definite energy, that are energetic enough to produce a muon.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Demystifying the future of connected and autonomous vehicles

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers are deploying advanced modeling and simulation tools to predict the impact of CAVs on energy and mobility in metropolitan areas. Their work, part of a collaborative three-year project, supports DOE's SMART (Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in Transportation) Mobility Consortium.

NOvA experiment sees strong evidence for antineutrino oscillation

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The NOvA collaboration has announced its first results using antineutrinos, and has seen strong evidence of muon antineutrinos oscillating into electron antineutrinos over long distances, a phenomenon that has never been unambiguously observed.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: Neutrino 2018 Conference

Checking the global pulse for electric vehicles

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of Argonne researchers has reviewed 40 automotive market diffusion models from 16 countries to help determine how many plug-in electric vehicles consumers will buy over the next few decades.

Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews