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Released: 23-Mar-2006 1:45 PM EST
New Sensor Technology Detects NBC Materials
Argonne National Laboratory

Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, using an emerging sensing technology, have developed a suite of sensors for national security applications that can quickly and effectively detect chemical, biological, nuclear and explosive materials.

Released: 30-Jan-2006 1:45 PM EST
Argonne Researchers Contribute 1000th Structure to Protein Data Bank
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the Structural Biology Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have contributed their 1,000th structure to the Protein Data Bank. The data bank houses the molecular structures of all proteins characterized so far and makes them available to researchers worldwide to study.

Released: 18-Jan-2006 1:30 PM EST
Magnetic Vortices Discovery May Lead to New Devices
Argonne National Laboratory

An unusual pool of scientific talent at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, combined with new nanofabrication and nanocharacterization instruments, is helping to open a new frontier in electronics, to be made up of very small and very fast devices.

Released: 7-Dec-2005 2:40 PM EST
Argonne Researchers Confirm Lead in Beethoven's Illness
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found elevated amounts of lead in bone fragments belonging to 19th Century composer Ludwig von Beethoven, consistent with their earlier finding of massive amounts of lead found in his hair.

Released: 18-Nov-2005 1:50 PM EST
Argonne Researchers Discover Keys to Magnet Technology
Argonne National Laboratory

Permanent magnets are important in a broad variety of commercial technologies, from car starters to alternators for wind power generation to computer hard drives. Researchers have found new clues into ways to make those magnets longer-lasting and more powerful.

Released: 9-Sep-2005 3:45 PM EDT
Argonne Theorist Gains New Insight Into the Nature of Nanodiamond
Argonne National Laboratory

The newest promising material for advanced technology applications is diamond nanotubes, and research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is giving new insight into the nature of nanodiamond.

Released: 30-Aug-2005 2:45 PM EDT
New Diamond-Nanotube Composite Material
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have combined the world's hardest known material "“ diamond "“ with the world's strongest structural form "“ carbon nanotubes. This new process for "growing" diamond and carbon nanotubes together opens the way for its use in a number of energy-related applications.

Released: 6-Jul-2005 11:50 AM EDT
Argonne, All Hazards Management Announce Licensing Agreement
Argonne National Laboratory

All Hazards Management, LLC has obtained worldwide exclusive rights to the Sync Matrix technology portfolio, a unique toolset of emergency preparedness software and systematic, structured services developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Released: 1-Jul-2005 1:20 PM EDT
Argonne Receives $50 Million NIH Grant for Protein Structures
Argonne National Laboratory

Proteins are the molecular machines that make growth possible, and understanding their structure is key to developing pharmaceuticals. A new window to that understanding is being made possible under a $50 million grant to Argonne National Laboratory.

Released: 21-Jun-2005 10:50 AM EDT
DISSCO Makes 'Music' for Argonne, UIUC Researchers
Argonne National Laboratory

A mathematician and a musician have teamed up to create a new computer program that both composes music and creates the instrumentation to play it. The software is available for free from SourceForge.net.



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