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Asymmetric insight

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

Like climbers assessing a new route before making the ascent, physicists have been looking for footholds on a vertiginous new terrain. These footholds contain important information for trekking to TeV heights (the lofty trillion electron volts energy scales of future colliders).

Super-fast super-sensitive detectors

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

Only detectors with the greatest precision capabilities will measure up to the machine seeking to explore supersymmetry, dark matter, the Higgs mechanism, and new physics that hasn't yet been imagined. Their shapes and configurations might be familiar, but their inner workings–the materials and electronics charged with creating views of new physics–will carry a symbolic branding: "Product of the 21st century."

Argonne theorist gains new insight into the nature of nanodiamond

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The newest promising material for advanced technology applications is diamond nanotubes, and research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is giving new insight into the nature of nanodiamond.

Fermilab and Caltech successfully use UltraScience Net

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Preparing for an onslaught of data to be processed and distributed in the upcoming years, scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the California Institute of Technology successfully tested a new ultrafast data transfer connection developed by the Office of Science of the Department of Energy.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne researchers create new diamond-nanotube composite material

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have combined the world's hardest known material – diamond – with the world's strongest structural form – carbon nanotubes. This new process for "growing" diamond and carbon nanotubes together opens the way for its use in a number of energy-related applications.

Journal: Advanced Materials

In their hands: The future of particle physics

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

Particle physics is at a critical time, and its future depends on how well scientists can make their case to a diverse National Academy of Sciences panel.

The compact linear collider

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

As the Global Design Effort for the proposed International Linear Collider starts to take shape, an international collaboration of scientists simultaneously works on an alternative linear collider technology that pushes physics and engineering to the edge.

Argonne, All Hazards Management announce largest technology license

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

All Hazards Management, LLC, of Denver, Colorado has obtained worldwide exclusive rights to the Sync Matrix technology portfolio, a unique toolset of emergency preparedness software and systematic, structured services developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. This toolset enables the development of completely integrated, coordinated and synchronized emergency plans.

Argonne receives $50 million NIH grant

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Proteins are the molecular machines that make growth possible, and understanding their structure is key to developing pharmaceuticals. A new window to that understanding is being made possible under a $50 million grant to the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

DISSCO makes 'music' for Argonne, UIUC researchers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A mathematician and a musician have teamed up to create a new computer program that both composes music and creates the instrumentation to play it. The software is available for free from SourceForge.net.