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Mar 19 | News
Scientists already know that some types of bacteria can alter uranium (VI)—a radioactive, toxic, and water-soluble relic of the Cold War era—into uranium (IV)—insoluble, stationary, and less harmful. Argonne Lab studies are beginning to unlock this pathway, but because bacteria interact with so many other elements, harnessing their abilities will prove difficult.
Feb 24 | News
Peter Behr of ClimateWire wrote yesterday about a new type of nuclear reactor pioneered by a former Bechtel Corp. physicist John Gilleland. He and his company, TerraPower LLC, have developed the traveling wave reactor concept, which has now attracted DOE attention. The venture already has help from Argonne Lab and MIT.
Jan 27 | News
The INCITE program is designed to distribute valuable time on America’s most powerful computers to worthy projects. This week, Secretary Chu announced the 69 projects to be awarded 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours. This research includes lithium air batteries, fusion energy, nuclear power, combustion, DNA sequencing and nanostructure superconductors.
Jan 26 | News
A team of Northwestern Univ. researchers has discovered that X-rays can trigger the formation of a new type of crystal: charged cylindrical filaments ordered like a bundle of pencils experiencing repulsive forces, which is unknown in crystals.
Jan 25 | News
Ever wanted to see a nuclear reactor core in action? A new computer algorithm developed by researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory allows scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail than ever before.
Jan 13 | News
What’s an MOF? It’s a metal-organic framework--a combination of metal and organic materials with molecular-scale pores that boast a high surface area and great potential for catalytic activity. Argonne Lab research into one promising example, ZIF-8, shows that such structures can be tailored to specific purposes by exerting industrially-accessible high pressure, changing the compound’s structure.
Jan 11 | News
Consisting of hundreds of thousands of plastic tubes filled with mineral water, the NOvA detector—positioned near Fermilab—will begin life as 220-ton detector that will form the basis for a later 14,000-ton detector that may be the first device that will capture the elusive oscillations of the fundamental subatomic neutrino particle.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
To say that the outlook for government R&D laboratory executives is brighter for 2010 than 2009 would be a great understatement. At this time last year most laboratories were scrambling to adjust to a short-term financial upheaval brought about by an across-the-board freeze on budgets until March 2009.
12/17/2009 | News
Why rely on electricity when bacteria will do the job with oxygen? Scientists at Argonne Lab and Northwestern University have harnessed a certain type of aerobic bacteria that, swimming in groups of several hundred, predictably turn toothed microgears in solution.
12/15/2009 | News
Certain materials can completely block the flow of electric current at low temperatures, but like superconductors, the fundamental reasons are poorly understood. Careful studies of the interaction between free electrons and holes in a plasma cloud have now shown that below certain temperatures, these form pairs, turning the conductivity to zero.