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Making connections

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

A group of University of Cincinnati physicists braved the freezing Illinois winter of 2001 testing mineral oils for the 40-foot tall MiniBooNE detector at Fermilab.They found the right oil and the MiniBooNE experiment took off without a hitch.

Burning plasma: the future of fusion energy

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Almost all activities on the surface of the earth are ultimately powered by the sun, whether by today's sunshine or by fossil fuels formed millions of years ago.

Argonne research offers clues to Alzheimer's plaques

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have developed methods to directly observe the structure and growth of microscopic filaments that form the characteristic plaques found in the brains of those with Alzheimer's Disease.

Argonne researchers use electric field to manipulate tiny particles

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Intricate patterns formed by granular materials under the influence of electrostatic fields have scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory dreaming of new ways to create smaller structures for nanotechnologies.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Argonne researchers create powerful stem cells from blood

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The particularly powerful – and very scarce – flexible forms of stem cells needed for medical research and treatment may now be both plentiful and simple to produce, with a new technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory – and the source is as close as your own bloodstream.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Tough days ahead with FY04 science funding

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

As Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and chief science advisor to the President of the U.S., John Marburger has fuond that being on the inside doesn't always translate into a comfort zone.

Cracking the neutrino code

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Neutrinos are everywhere. Capable of traversing the entire earth at close to the speed of light, these particles shine no light, and only very rarely does one of them interact with anything at all.

Potomac parley presents particle physics project prioritization panel

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Ray Orbach: "I want [the U.S. program] to be the best high-energy physics program in the world."

A delicate balance

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

DOE review gives high marks to Tevatron improvements, but cites challenges ahead

Meeting on neutral ground

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Neutrinos offer a link between cosmologists and particle physicists.