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Glass is a mysterious material, but when researchers apply pressure, it reveals secrets. Using a variety of techniques, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory saw for the first time ever, the atomic structure of a dense, purely octahedral glass that has eluded scientists for decades. They also witnessed a continuous structural change in the glass, disproving the theory that tetrahedral glasses go through a distinct transition between low- and high-density phases.

Structural changes in proteins can now be seen in increased detail, using a new application of an existing technique. The application, developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, could help produce lead drugs for disease therapy.

A big project studying the characteristics of the very small will provide insight into new materials with unprecedented properties. These small systems can be only a few atoms wide and are measured in billionths of meters, or nanometers.

The country's best microscopists are teaming up to build the highest resolution microscope in the world. The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences is funding this $100 million microscopy project, called the Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope (TEAM). Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkely and Oak Ridge national laboratories, along with the University of Illinois, make up the TEAM.

A new type of molecular magnet known as a "sandwich cluster" is being studied under a joint research collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and Keio University in Japan. These molecular magnets could be useful for magnetic storage or spintronics, developing technologies that could enable computers to have ultra-small storage capabilities with faster and more energy-efficient systems.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a new way to study individual living bacteria cells and analyze their chemistry. In research published today in Science, the scientists used high-energy X-ray fluorescence measurements for mapping and chemical analyses of single free-floating, or planktonic, and surface-adhered, or biofilm, cells of Pseudomonas fluorescens.

A researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has won the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from an Hispanic engineering organization, the third Argonne researcher – and the second in a row – to do so.

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are presenting new results from experiments performed at the world's highest-energy particle accelerator during the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics in Beijing, China, August 16-22. The physicists from Fermilab and from universities and laboratories around the world traveled to Beijing to present new results from the DZero and CDF experiments.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have determined the crystal structure of sortase B, an enzyme found in the bacteria that cause staph and anthrax. While an antibiotic is probably five to seven years away, the structure could provide the first clue in developing a treatment for the infections. The research is published today in the journal Structure.

Four technologies developed or co-developed at Argonne have been recognized with R&D 100 Awards, which highlight some of the best products and technologies newly available for commercial use from around the world. This is the 41st year the technology awards have been given by R&D magazine to recognize the "100 most technologically significant new products" from the entries the magazine receives.