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Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced June 24 the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. The result is consistent with and significantly constrains a measurement reported 10 days ago by the Japanese T2K experiment, which announced an indication of this type of transformation.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Argonne to host annual Science Careers in Search of Women conference

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

To encourage and inspire more young women to pursue careers in science, Argonne will host its 24th annual Science Careers in Search of Women Conference on April 14, 2011, welcoming approximately 350 high school students from across the Chicago area to experience science and engineering first hand.

GE acquires Argonne-UChicago start-up SmartSignal

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

GE Intelligent Platforms has purchased SmartSignal, a company started by the University of Chicago based on technology developed at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne to hold annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Girls in sixth through eighth grades are invited to learn all about science and engineering during the annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Could 135,000 laptops help solve the energy challenge?

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the largest ever awards of the department's supercomputing time to 57 innovative research projects -- using computer simulations to perform virtual experiments that in most cases would be impossible or impractical in the natural world.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne scientists awarded supercomputing time to enable scientific breakthroughs

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Four researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory lead projects that have been awarded a total of 65 million hours of computing time on Argonne's energy-efficient Blue Gene/P ("Intrepid") supercomputer.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Supercomputing brings the climate picture into focus

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Recent advances in supercomputing have brightened the future of climate modeling, but they also bring to light complicated questions about the fundamental workings of our planet and our atmosphere.

2 Hispanic researchers from Argonne receive national acclaim

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Two researchers from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been recognized for outstanding achievement. Jorge Alvarado was honored by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation, and Monica Regalbuto was named one of the 2010 Powerful Hispanics in Energy by the editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Supercomputers take science by storm

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Five researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded almost 200 million processor-hours of computing time at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility. The ALCF is home to an IBM Blue Gene/P, a supercomputer capable of performing 557 trillion calculations per second, enabling scientists and engineers to conduct cutting-edge research in weeks or months rather than years.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab revealed their latest Higgs search results July 26 at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from July 22-28. Their results rule out a significant fraction of the allowed mass range established by earlier experiments.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Meeting: 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics