Feature Stories
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Songs in the key of sea Soft horns and a tinkling piano form the backbone of “Fifty Degrees North, Four Degrees West,” a jazz number with two interesting twists: it has no composer and no actual musicians. Unless you count bacteria, that is. |
September 27, 2012 | |
Dark energy: Q&A with Steve Kuhlmann Why do we care about dark energy in the first place? |
September 17, 2012 | |
No magic show: Real-world levitation to inspire better pharmaceuticals It’s not a magic trick and it’s not sleight of hand – scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug development process, eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects. |
September 12, 2012 | |
Finding a palate for the science palette Like art, science expands our notion of the universe.It takes us from microcosms to the cosmos. It lets us envision how our planet was born, and how it might eventually die. No wonder, then, that science can beget compelling art — which is what Argonne National Laboratory’s annual “Art of Science” contest is all about. |
September 11, 2012 | |
New boriding technique coats metal workpieces in minutes Growing up in Turkey, Ali Erdemir and Osman Eryilmaz would sometimes play with the borax deposits near the mountains by their homes — but only later would they discover that borax would underlie one of their crowning achievements as scientists. |
September 5, 2012 | |
Turning up the heat: Argonne’s thermal cell facility puts vehicles to the test Argonne’s world-class Advanced Powertrain Research Facility now includes a thermal chamber that can deliver temperatures ranging from frigid cold to sweltering heat. |
August 30, 2012 | |
Sterling science: Strain in silver nanoparticles creates unusual “twinning” When twins are forced to share, it can put a significant strain on their relationship. While this observation is perhaps unsurprising in the behavior of children, it is less obvious when it comes to nanoparticles. |
August 27, 2012 | |
The research bench meets industry: New facility scales up production of battery materials The path between technology discovery and commercialization can be so treacherous that it has been dubbed the “Valley of Death.” Not all products survive the test — and batteries are no exception. Cue Argonne’s new Materials Engineering Research Facility, which allows researchers to safely determine fast and economical ways of producing large quantities of advanced battery materials for commercial testing. |
August 21, 2012 | |
Scientists create new diamond-denting carbon A new super-hard form of carbon has been created by an international team of scientists working with X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. |
August 20, 2012 | |
Mobile climate observatory prepares for campaign aboard ship Following a six-month land-based campaign in the Maldives to study tropical convective clouds, the Department of Energy’s second Atmospheric Radiation Measurement mobile facility is being readied for a research campaign aboard a cargo container ship in the Pacific Ocean. |
August 16, 2012 |