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Argonne researchers contribute 1000th structure

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the Structural Biology Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have contributed their 1,000th structure to the Protein Data Bank. This structure – and its 999 predecessors determined with data obtained at Argonne's SBC – provides important pieces to the puzzle of understanding human and environmental health by imaging the molecules that control and regulate it.

Funder: Department of Engery's Office of Science

eco-science

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

Stepping onto the site of a physics laboratory, you might expect to see enormous accelerators, ultra-powerful supercomputers, or scientists in lab coats racing between experiments. At one lab, however, what you will actually see are goats. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, goats roam through the hills, push over fences, and climb trees.

Magnetic spin details may lead to new devices

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An unusual pool of scientific talent at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, combined with new nanofabrication and nanocharacterization instruments, is helping to open a new frontier in electronics, to be made up of very small and very fast devices. A new discovery by this group opens a path to new computer and related devices, and could be driving entire industries into the future, the researchers say.

Journal: Nature Physics

The search for extra dimensions

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

Although we now think of the universe as three bulky, nearly-flat dimensions, we might soon discover that the fabric of space-time consists of many more dimensions than we ever dreamed.

Gold 'glitters' in new ways at the nanoscale

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found that gold "shines" in a different way at the nanoscale, and the insights may lead to new optical chips for computers or for switches and routers in fiber networks.

Argonne researchers confirm lead in Beethoven's illness

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found elevated amounts of lead in bone fragments belonging to 19th Century composer Ludwig von Beethoven, consistent with their earlier finding of massive amounts of lead found in his hair. These results confirm the cause of his years of chronic debilitating illness.

High energy physics team captures network prize at SC|05

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers from the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center recently joined an international team in shattering the world network speed record. To capture first place in the SC|05 Bandwidth Challenge, the team of high energy physicists, computer scientists and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology transferred physics data at a rate of over 150 gigabits per second.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne researchers discover keys to improving commerical magnet technology

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Permanent magnets are important in a broad variety of commercial technologies, from car starters to alternators for wind power generation to computer hard drives. Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found new clues into ways to make those magnets longer-lasting and more powerful.

Pierre Auger Observatory celebrates progress on detector array and presents first science results

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists of the Pierre Auger Observatory, a project to discover the origins of rare and mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays, began a celebration today (November 10) in Malargüe, Argentina, to mark the progress on installation of the Observatory's detectors on the Argentina Pampas, and the presentation of the first physics results.

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

Meet the grid

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

Today's cutting-edge scientific projects are larger, more complex, and more expensive than ever. Grid computing provides the resources that allow researchers to share knowledge, data, and computer processing power across boundaries.