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Study in Science finds missing piece of biogeochemical puzzle in aquifers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study published today in Science by researchers from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may dramatically shift our understanding of the complex dance of microbes and minerals that takes place in aquifers deep underground. This dance affects groundwater quality, the fate of contaminants in the ground and the emerging science of carbon sequestration.

Journal: Science
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Is the universe balanced on a pinhead?

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists have known the mass of the heaviest fundamental particle, the top quark, since 1995. But recent, more precise measurements of this mass have revived an old question: Why is it so huge? No one is sure, but it might be a sign that our universe is inherently unstable. Or it might be a sign that some factor we don't yet understand is keeping us in balance.

The instrumentation frontier

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Devices designed for science can open both the wonders of the cosmos and new possibilities in everyday life.

International team of LHC and Tevatron scientists announces first joint result

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists on four major experiments on the Tevatron and Large Hadron Collider have pooled their data to arrive at the most precise measurement of the top quark.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: Recontres de Moriond 2014

CDMS result covers new ground in search for dark matter

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists looking for dark matter face a serious challenge: No one knows what dark matter particles look like. So their search covers a wide range of possible traits -- different masses, different probabilities of interacting with regular matter. Today, scientists on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, or CDMS, announced they have shifted the border of this search down to a dark-matter particle mass and rate of interaction that has never been probed.

New perspective on a corrosive problem

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at Argonne Lab took a peek at the problem of corrosion from the perspective of the water, and found a critical transition that drives the creation of corrosive conditions.

Nanoscale freezing leads to better imaging

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New X-ray tool allows for more sensitivity to trace metals, such as those that cause cancer, in whole cells and tissues.

Journal: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Funder: Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

Scientists complete the top quark puzzle

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers on the two main Tevatron experiments, CDF and DZero, have discovered the final predicted way of producing top quarks.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Good hair day: New technique grows tiny 'hairy' materials at the microscale

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory attacked a tangled problem by developing a new technique to grow tiny "hairy" materials that assemble themselves at the microscale.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Russian Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Tracking Asian air pollution aids policymakers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from a team of scientists, that included Argonne's David Streets, a senior energy and environmental policy scientist, showed that several different air pollutants from China reach the shores of the western United States. The Chinese-led international research team found that the export of air pollution is tied directly to China's production of consumer goods for export to the United States.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NASA, DOE/US Department of Energy