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Argonne researchers focus on grid cybersecurity to pave the way for a clean energy future

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Distributed energy resources use electronics to communicate with each other or with a control center. Yet this presents opportunities for cyber attacks that could become real threats to the electric power system. Argonne experts are developing ways to protect power systems from these threats before they can occur.

A joint venture at the nanoscale

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory report fabricating and testing a superconducting nanowire device applicable to high-speed photon counting. This pivotal invention will allow nuclear physics experiments that were previously thought impossible.

Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

New version of Earth model captures detailed climate dynamics

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

DOE laboratories are collaborating on a new high-resolution Earth systems model to predict climate trends into the next century. The model will provide the scientific basis by which to mitigate the effects of extreme climate on energy and other essential services.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Twenty-five years ago, scientists on the CDF and DZero particle physics experiments at Fermilab announced one of history's biggest breakthroughs in particle physics: the discovery of the long-sought top quark. The collaborations on the two experiments jointly made the announcement on March 2, 1995, to much fanfare. We take a look back on this day in Fermilab history a quarter-century ago.

They are there and they are gone: ICARUS chases a fourth neutrino

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists have begun filling the ICARUS detector at Fermilab with liquid argon, moving one step closer toward neutrino oscillation measurements and the potential discovery of sterile neutrinos.

Scientists pair machine learning with tomography to learn about material interfaces

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have put a new technique based on machine learning to work uncovering the secrets of buried interfaces and edges in a material.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Particle accelerator technology could solve vexing problem in building quantum computers

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

One of the most difficult problems to overcome in developing a quantum computer is finding a way to maintain the lifespan of information held in quantum bits, called qubits. Researchers at Fermilab and Argonne are working to determine whether devices used in particle accelerators can help solve the problem. By running simulations on high-performance computers, they can predict the lifespan of information held within these qubits using smaller versions of these devices.

'Flash photography' at the LHC

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

An extremely fast new detector inside the CMS detector will allow physicists to get a sharper image of particle collisions.

University of Toledo engineering students as future STEM leaders

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

On Monday, January 13, engineering students from the University of Toledo's Roy and Marcia Armes Engineering Leaderships Institute (ELI) visited Argonne National Laboratory to prepare themselves for the leadership challenges facing engineers.

Predicting persistent cold pool events

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a multi-institutional field campaign with NOAA and other laboratories, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are working to better identify and forecast the occurrence of cold pool events.

Journal: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology