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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Apr-2025 12:08 ET (19-Apr-2025 16:08 GMT/UTC)

27-Mar-2025

Two Argonne scientists elected American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Two Argonne scientists, Karen Mulfort and Di-Jia Liu, have been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for achievements in their field.

25-Mar-2025

Argonne innovations squeeze more out of used nuclear fuel and rare earth materials

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

New technology could prove effective in nuclear fuel recycling and other metal recovery processes.

24-Mar-2025

Building blocks of innovation: Light-induced symmetry changes in tiny crystals

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers have shown that they can use light to temporarily alter the crystal symmetry within lead sulfide quantum dots. This process reduces the off-centering of lead atoms and affects the electronic properties of the quantum dots.

Journal

Advanced Materials

18-Mar-2025

Argonne team uses Aurora supercomputer to investigate potential dark energy breakthrough

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers used the lab’s Aurora exascale supercomputer to perform large-scale simulations of the universe, providing a testing ground to investigate Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s potentially game-changing observations of dark energy.

17-Mar-2025

1,000 Scientist AI Jam kicks off at Argonne

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The 1,000 Scientist AI Jam brought together DOE researchers at Argonne and eight other labs to explore models from OpenAI and Anthropic and understand AI’s potential to accelerate discoveries in energy, materials science, medicine and more.

13-Mar-2025

Daniel Haskel of Photon Sciences selected for Oppenheimer fellowship program

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Daniel Haskel of the lab’s Photon Sciences directorate has been selected to represent Argonne in the 2025 cohort of DOE’s Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP).

11-Mar-2025

Breaking boundaries in biomedicine: Advanced Photon Source enables protein design

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A team of scientists in the lab of Nobel Prize winner David Baker has created a method for designing proteins that can bind and sense a range of small molecules, with wide applications for biomedicine and environmental protection.

Journal

Science

4-Mar-2025

New HIV vaccine candidate discovered with help from Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Protein crystallization at the SER-CAT beamline at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source proved key to the discovery of a new HIV vaccine candidate.

Journal

Cell

27-Feb-2025

The US Department of Energy announces Xander Newlun as the 2025 Conquer the Hill Command Competition winner

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory announced Xander Newlun from the University of Texas at San Antonio won the 2025 Conquer the Hill® Command competition.

19-Feb-2025

What is quantum coherence?

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

What is of quantum coherence and how it is used for quantum sensing and quantum computing applications?