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Argonne scientists are building artificial intelligence systems to streamline operations and maintenance at advanced nuclear reactors.

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Argonne nuclear engineer Yung Liu was honored by RFID Journal for his work creating RFID technologies to track nuclear material shipments.

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s CyberForce Program hosts competitions such as Conquer the Hill – Reign Edition to help the energy sector develop a pipeline of skilled cyber defenders who can counteract ever-evolving cyber threats.

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The production of ammonia, a major ingredient in fertilizers, involves greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists at Argonne have quantified ways to reduce carbon impacts in this process.

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New climate models of the Great Lakes region reveal that warming water temperatures will have a significant impact on summer climate. Understanding these risks could help the region predict extreme weather and prepare to become climate resilient.

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Sage, a new sensing and computing platform based on Argonne’s Waggle technology, has been deployed at a controlled burn site in Kansas.

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The technology housed in the new Long Beamline Building will lead to more efficient solar cells, longer-lasting batteries, more durable materials for airplanes and much more.

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A research team led by Caltech spent nearly 20 years determining X-ray structures, one by one, to create a map of the nuclear pore complex, one of the largest and most complex pieces of cellular machinery.

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Designed to detect the oldest light in the universe, the South Pole Telescope is helping researchers at Argonne and around the world to learn about the beginnings of the universe.

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The first-ever Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) Summit on July 12 will showcase the program's science-based climate solutions and innovators, highlighting their regional and national impacts.

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In a pioneering partnership, Argonne, the DOE Packaging Certification Program, the University of Nevada, Reno, and other DOE national labs are helping to meet demand for new expertise in nuclear packaging by offering a novel graduate certificates program that trains future leaders in the field.

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Scientists uncover a new crystal structure of a mineral in extrasolar planets using Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source.

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A multi-institutional team, including Argonne National Laboratory, has developed a material with which computer chips can be designed to reconfigure their circuits when presented with new information. It does so by mimicking functions in the human brain.

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The first Safe Zone Project workshop at Argonne focuses on allyship with more vital topics to help increase communication, safety and bias-free inclusion in the workplace for LGBTQIA+ employees.

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American farms produce food, animal feed and biofuel for the world. Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory are providing valuable tools to help big agriculture make decisions that maximize potential but cancel out greenhouse gas emissions.

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A profile of Bo Peng, a scientist at PNNL working on error correction for quantum computing. He is a collaborator with Q-NEXT, one of the DOE National QIS Research Centers.

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Argonne's Michael Thackeray has been named Fellow of the Royal Society for his pivotal research on lithium-ion batteries.

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The Early Career Research Program Awards are a prestigious funding opportunity for early career researchers. Only 83 researchers have received funding of hundreds of applications, and only 27 of those are national laboratory researchers. Four scientists from Argonne have received funding.

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Argonne hosted a sustainable aviation fuels workshop, bringing together over 100 leaders in the U.S. aviation industry to discuss their mutual goals of achieving a greener future for commercial aviation.

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Argonne is working with local jurisdictions to develop dam-related emergency action plans through FEMA’s Collaborative Technical Assistance (CTA) program.

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Tiny antibodies in sharks have dexterity and flexibility that human antibodies do not. They can bind tightly to the spike proteins of coronaviruses and neutralize the virus. This could help researchers develop new vaccines and therapies for COVID-19.

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Sheets of pure diamond with tiny imperfections could hold promise for being controllable materials platform for quantum technology.

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Seven new innovators representing five clean energy startups will join Chain Reaction Innovations, Argonne National Laboratory’s entrepreneurship program, as part of the elite program’s sixth cohort.

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Argonne researchers have used quantum computers to simulate spin defects, an important material property for the next generation of quantum computers.

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At the quantum mechanics level, the mystery of what happens when electrons transition between metallic and insulator states has intrigued physicists for nearly 60 years. Modern instrumentation has provided a fascinating glimpse at the answer.

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AWS joins Q-NEXT as an institutional partner. Q-NEXT is a DOE National QIS Research Center led by Argonne.

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Knowing variants of concern can spike rates of illness and death around the globe, scientists using the APS are concentrating efforts on mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Pivotal discoveries at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source make the world better every day. Here are six that help us, inspire us and add to the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

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Researchers at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research have invented a wide and diverse range of technologies in the “beyond lithium-ion” space, including 30-plus patents now available for licensing.

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Research data management platform Globus took home the Best Integrated Software Experience Award at the 2021 Data Mover Challenge.

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Paul Benioff, an Argonne emeritus scientist, helped pave the way for the field of quantum computing that is now being intensely pursued throughout the world. He passed away on March 29, leaving a legacy of intellectual courage and collaboration.

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Scientists at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source have created a new method using artificial intelligence to speed up the analysis of X-ray diffraction data.

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From simulating climate to creating more fuel-efficient vehicles, Argonne is home to many teams that tackle different aspects of climate change. Here are a few of those innovators.

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Scientists at Argonne have used machine learning algorithms to predict how long a lithium-ion battery will last.

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Scientists have developed a qubit platform formed by freezing neon gas into a solid, spraying electrons from a light bulb’s filament onto it, and trapping a single electron there. This system shows great promise as an ideal building block for quantum computers.

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Scientists have developed a groundbreaking AI-based algorithm for modeling the properties of materials at the atomic and molecular scale. It should greatly speed up materials discovery.

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Wet electrolyte could be a key to inexpensive energy storage.

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The U.S. has great potential to become a global leader in battery manufacturing, but critical challenges still need to be addressed to realize that potential. This was a key takeaway of Bridging the Gap, a recent two-day workshop hosted by Li-Bridge.

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Large ion clusters known as aggregates are an important emerging topic for research on electrolytes in batteries. The research indicates that aggregates can affect electrolyte properties, including stability and ion transport.

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The INCITE program is aimed at large-scale scientific computing projects that require the power and scale of DOE’s leadership-class supercomputers.

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Argonne National Laboratory and Parallel Works, Inc., won the 2022 Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) National Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for their effort to bring Machine Learning–Genetic Algorithm software to commercialization.

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A chemical reaction that causes concrete to crack and deteriorate can now be identified without harm, according to Argonne scientists.

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Earth Day presents a good opportunity to help clear up some essential questions about climate change; what it is, what is responsible and how we know it’s real.

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Argonne physicist Karen Byrum has been named a deputy project manager for the Mu2e experiment, an expansion of her current role.

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Argonne has announced a new set of Maria Goeppert Mayer and Walter Massey fellows, supporting early career researchers.

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Argonne’s Alfred P. Sattelberger received a distinguished service award from the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes Sattelberger’s career-spanning contributions to inorganic chemistry. It was presented at the ACS Spring 2022 conference in San Diego.

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Update on a DOE-funded Argonne database tracking Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) projects for transportation, which are rapidly increasing. Projects involve landfills, dairy/agriculture, waste-water and food processing.

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Intel's quantum test bed will be installed at Argonne in partnership with the Q-NEXT quantum research center. Intel's Jeanette Roberts is leading the installation.

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Researchers are coupling the ancient and the modern to tackle problems in materials science.

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Argonne scientists have used artificial intelligence to enhance hypersonic combustion.