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Argonne helps improve air quality for 2008 Beijing Olympics

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To improve the air quality of Beijing and ensure a healthy atmosphere for athletes and spectators at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been working with leading institutions, including the US Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Tennessee, Tsinghua University, Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Funder: US Environmental Protection Agency

MiniBooNE opens the box

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists of the MiniBooNE experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermilab today announced their first findings.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Flexible electronics could find applications as sensors, artificial muscles

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These flexible structures could find useful applications as sensors and as electronic devices that can be integrated into artificial muscles or biological tissues.

Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Crada team recognized for award-winning collaboration in environmental innovation

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the United States Council for Automotive Research's Vehicle Recycling Partnership and the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council have been awarded the Plastics Recycling and Sustainability Award in Enabling Technologies by the Society of Plastics Engineers for their work in the optimum recycling of plastics and other materials from end-of-life vehicles.

Funder: the ACC-PD, US Department of Energy Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies, United States Council for Automotive Research
Meeting: Global Plastics Environmental Conference

Solar energy conversion offers a solution to help mitigate global warming

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and provide increased energy efficiency, says a scientist at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in a report (view it online) published in the March issue of Physics Today. Last month, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations released a report confirming global warming is upon us and attributing the growing threat to the man-made burning of fossil fuels.

Journal: Physics Today
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New nanoscale engineering breakthrough points to hydrogen-powered vehicles

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed an advanced concept in nanoscale catalyst engineering -- a combination of experiments and simulations that will bring polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells for hydrogen-powered vehicles closer to massive commercialization.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, General Motors

Down with physics: Giant CMS magnet goes underground at CERN

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists of the US-CMS collaboration joined colleagues around the world in announcing today, Feb. 28, that the heaviest piece of the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector has begun the momentous journey into its experimental cavern 100 meters underground.

Cancer cells forming blood vessels send their copper to the edge

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New information about a link between the growth of blood vessels critical to the spread of cancer and the copper in our bodies has been discovered by researchers from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, using a beamline at the Advanced Photon Source.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne National Laboratory plays key role in new climate simulations

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Model Coupling Toolkit created by the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory played a key role in the climate simulations used in preparing the new U.N. report "Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis." The report, a summary of which was issued February 2, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, presents a comprehensive assessment of the world's knowledge about climate change and its potential impacts on society.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Cutting-edge projects awarded computing time on Blue Gene/L

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Nine computing projects ranging from predicting protein structure to simulating the formation of foams have been awarded large amounts of time on IBM Blue Gene/L computer systems at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The computer time is available to researchers through the Department of Energy's INCITE program -- Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy