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Fermilab achieves milestone beam power for neutrino experiments

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has achieved a significant milestone for proton beam power. On Jan. 24, the laboratory's flagship particle accelerator delivered a 700-kilowatt proton beam over one hour at an energy of 120 billion electronvolts.

Hour of Code sends 45 Argonne, Fermilab and UChicago computer scientists to schools

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne's Educational Programs Department coordinated an effort to send computer scientists from Argonne and Fermilab National Laboratory and computer science students from the University of Chicago into schools in the greater Chicago area last December for Hour of Code, a global movement that aims to get everyone, kids to adults, to try computer coding for an hour.

Co-design centers to help make next-generation exascale computing a reality

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As collaborators in four co-design centers created by the Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project (ECP), researchers at Argonne are helping to overcome some of the complex challenges in developing exascale supercomputers.

A rising peptide: Supercomputing helps scientists come closer to tailoring drug molecules

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

With the help of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's Mira supercomputer, scientists have successfully designed and verified stable versions of synthetic peptides, components that join together to form proteins.

Kawtar Hafidi named director of Physics Division

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne associate chief scientist Kawtar Hafidi has been named the laboratory's next physics division director.

For first time ever, X-ray imaging at Argonne captures material defect process

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a new approach to detail the formation of material defects at the atomic scale and in near-real time, an important step that could assist in engineering better and stronger new materials.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Study of microbes reveals new insight about Earth's geology and carbon cycles

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Tiny microbes play a big role in cycling carbon and other key elements through our air, water, soil and sediment. Researchers who study these processes at Argonne National Laboratory have discovered that these microbial communities are significantly affected by the types of carbon 'food' sources available. Their findings reveal that the type of carbon source affects not only the composition and activity of natural microbial communities, but also in turn the types of mineral products that form in their environment.

Fast track control accelerates switching of quantum bits

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

An international collaboration among physicists at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, McGill University and the University of Konstanz recently demonstrated a new framework for faster control of a quantum bit -- the basic unit of information in yet-to-be created quantum computers -- in findings published online Nov. 28 in Nature Physics. Their experiments on a single electron in a diamond chip could create quantum devices less prone to errors when operated at high speeds.

CERN ramps up neutrino program

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

CERN is accelerating its neutrino program by participating for the first time in an experiment (the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by Fermilab) not based at CERN itself.

Anything to declare?

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists at Fermilab and CERN considered several options to transport fragile components of the CMS detector to Geneva. Their answer? Buy seats for the components on commercial airline flights.