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World's biggest neutrino experiment moves one step closer

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

On June 21, a prototype detector at CERN for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment recorded its first particle tracks. So begins the largest ever test of an extremely precise method for measuring elusive particles called neutrinos, which may hold the key to why our universe looks the way it does and how it came into being.

Chicago Quantum Exchange to create technologically transformative ecosystem

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The University of Chicago is collaborating with the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to launch an intellectual hub for advancing academic, industrial and governmental efforts in the science and engineering of quantum information.

New prototypes for superconducting undulators show promise for more powerful, versatile X-ray beams

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Argonne National Laboratory have collaborated to design, build and test two devices that utilize different superconducting materials and could make X-ray lasers more powerful, versatile, compact and durable.

Nickel for thought: Compound shows potential for high-temperature superconductivity

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers have identified a nickel oxide compound as an unconventional but promising candidate material for high-temperature superconductivity. The project combined crystal growth, X-ray spectroscopy and computational theory.

Journal: Nature Physics

How to build software for a computer 50 times faster than anything in the world

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at Argonne are working to create new and adapt existing software technologies to operate at exascale by overcoming challenges found in several key areas, such as resiliency, data reduction, software libraries and the management of memory, power and computational resources.

Argonne hosts Battery Industry Day to boost collaboration

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne will highlight its array of innovative battery work -- including its revolutionary Nickel Manganese Cobalt blended cathode structure -- during Battery Industry Day on Wednesday, June 14.

Argonne X-rays used to help identify a key Lassa virus structure

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research done at Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source was vital to the process of identifying the structure, which provides a guide for designing a Lassa virus vaccine. Lassa virus is endemic to Africa and kills thousands of people a year; it is particularly deadly for pregnant women.

Journal: Science

Cynthia Jenks named director of Argonne's Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne has named Cynthia Jenks the next director of the laboratory's Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division. Jenks currently serves as the assistant director for scientific planning and the director of the Chemical and Biological Sciences Division at Ames Laboratory.

Argonne-developed technology for producing graphene wins TechConnect National Innovation Award

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A method that significantly cuts the time and cost needed to grow graphene has won a 2017 TechConnect National Innovation Award. This is the second year in a row that a team at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials has received this award.

The world's most powerful X-ray laser beam creates 'molecular black hole'

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With the most highly focused power of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, scientists from a number of institutions around the world -- including Argonne National Laboratory -- have conducted a new experiment that takes apart molecules electron by electron.

Journal: Nature