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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-Jul-2025 11:10 ET (5-Jul-2025 15:10 GMT/UTC)

11-Jul-2023

Argonne receives inaugural Green Fleet Award from Department of Energy

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne was honored with the first Green Fleet Award as the laboratory continues to purchase zero-emissions vehicles.

6-Jul-2023

Argonne researcher Khalil Amine elected as a Fellow for the European Academy of Sciences

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Khalil Amine, a researcher in PSE’s Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division (CSE), was recently elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of the Sciences. This article highlights this Fellowship and Amine’s research in CSE.

5-Jul-2023

Speaking my language: Robert Winarski’s background helps him coordinate beamline installation for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

With the year-long shutdown underway, the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade project is in the midst of building seven new beamlines, constructing the infrastructure for two more, and updating several more existing beamlines. Robert Winarski is coordinating all of this work, and his background as a scientist who has constructed beamlines is key to his success.

5-Jul-2023

Ready, set, upgrade: Advanced Photon Source’s overhaul is underway

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory is beginning the installation phase of an upgrade that will enable new breakthroughs in a variety of sciences.

29-Jun-2023

5 ways Argonne entangled with Ant-Man to get people to geek out about quantum science

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Whether Ant-Man is shrinking between atoms or communicating through entangled particles, his true superpower is his ability to excite people about quantum science. Argonne assembled experts to spread the word about the real science of the quantum realm.

27-Jun-2023

Tips for future Argonne interns, from past Argonne interns

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Several members of Argonne’s Student STEM Ambassadors program, having interned at Argonne before, gave future and current interns key suggestions on how to have successful, fulfilling internships.

21-Jun-2023

Study reveals workings of promising Copper deficiency drug

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Research at Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source has revealed a key mechanism behind a promising drug for copper deficiency disorders.

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

19-Jun-2023

Scientists use Argonne supercomputer to detail HIV protein mechanism crucial for drug development

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago used the Theta supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to run simulations on and determine the molecular mechanisms behind the ways that new HIV antivirals could work.

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

14-Jun-2023

Historic Advanced Photon Source magnet sees the light of day for the first time in 29 years

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

In 1994, one of the last magnets produced for the Advanced Photon Source was signed by many who worked on the facility’s construction. That magnet was recently removed to make way for the APS Upgrade, and many of those who signed it are still with the lab.

13-Jun-2023

IBM’s Jason Orcutt moves the world toward an interconnected quantum future

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Jason Orcutt of IBM provides an industry perspective on quantum simulation research at the Q-NEXT quantum research center and works to connect quantum information systems around the globe.