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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.

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: 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: 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: 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-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: 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: 9-Jun-2006 9:00 AM EDT
Protein Structure May Lead to Treatment for Infection Targeting Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers have determined the structure of a key protein believed to play a role in a deadly infection that afflicts the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis. This finding, published in the June 9 issue of Science, may lead to a new drug to treat the bacterial infection.

Released: 11-Jul-2006 9:00 AM EDT
Surprising Discovery May Lead to Better Understanding of Water Quality
Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered new ways that ions interact with mineral surfaces in water, opening a door to new knowledge on how contaminants travel in the environment. The insight, leads to a better understanding of the factors that determine water quality.


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