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New lens could help find cancer tumors earlier

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The new lens technology, developed by scientists at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source, uses gamma rays diffracted by a set of 828 copper crystal cubes arranged in 13 concentric rings in a disk slightly smaller than a dinner plate. The lens focuses the gamma radiation emitted from a small radioactive source in the body of a patient into a small, well-shielded detector.

Faster, lighter computers possible with nanotechnology

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Smaller, lighter computers and an end to worries about electrical failures sending hours of on-screen work into an inaccessible limbo mark the potential result of Argonne research on tiny ferroelectric crystals.

Argonne Wakefield Accelerator supplies more Big Bang for buck

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have demonstrated a technique — called wakefield acceleration — that can power a linear, high-energy particle accelerator by using a low-energy particle accelerator like a booster in a multistage rocket. This could make possible collisions powerful enough to generate particles not seen since the Big Bang.

The stuff that came in from the cold

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Despite the best efforts of particle physicists and astrophysicists, most of the Universe is still missing. We know where it is, but we don't know what it is. It is all around us, but we can only see it by looking far, far away. That is the challenge for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS).

Argonne leads new Midwest Center for Structural Genomics

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A quicker and more efficient method to determine protein structures is the goal of a new research center based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The Midwest Center for Structural Genomics (MCSG), funded by the National Institutes of Health, will receive approximately $4 million each year for five years. The center is part of an initiative to determine the structures of thousands of proteins over the next decade.

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Looking for an atom?

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new ultrasensitive trace analysis technique — able to detect single atoms in a large sample — has been developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory. Called Atom Trap Trace Analysis, the technology holds promise in many fields, from solar-neutrino research to groundwater studies and environmental monitoring.

Argonne, IBM, VA Linux team for testbed

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne National Laboratory, IBM and VA Linux have teamed to develop "Chiba City," the largest supercomputing cluster ever dedicated to highly scalable open source software development. The resource will be open to the U.S. research community, including universities, laboratories and industry.

Meeting: Supercomputing '99

Argonne biochips may halt tuberculosis epidemic

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new biochip technology developed by Russian and American scientists may help stem the global resurgence of tuberculosis. The technology is expected to help health organizations deal with the new variety of drug-resistant strains of the disease found in Russian prisoners.

Neutrino hunters break ground underground

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

A former iron mine --now a Minnesota state park-- will soon be neutrino detector. A groundbreaking ceremony is set for today, July 20 at 1pm.

NuMI detector cavern groundbreaking July 20 at Soudan Mine

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

Scientists and officials of the U.S. Department of Energy, the State of Minnesota, DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Minnesota will break ground in a former iron mine, now a Minnesota state park, to house a new detector to study the subatomic particles called neutrinos.