Science Simplified: What Is Nuclear Energy?
What Is Nuclear Energy? Nuclear power is the world’s largest and most reliable source of clean energy, and supplies electricity to the homes of tens…
What Is Nuclear Energy? Nuclear power is the world’s largest and most reliable source of clean energy, and supplies electricity to the homes of tens…
What Is Hydropower? The power of water has been used to perform work for thousands of years. Since flowing water has energy that can be…
What Is Quantum Mechanics? Imagine a world where objects can seem to exist in two places at once or affect each other from across the…
What Is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the collective term for computer technologies and techniques that help solve complex problems by imitating the brain’s…
What Is Supercomputing? There are computers. And then there are supercomputers. Most personal and work computers are powerful enough to perform tasks like doing homework…
Argonne researchers pioneer “redox gating” — a new way to precisely modulate electron flow. Breakthrough could help lead to the development of new low-power semiconductors…
What Is Microelectronics? Microelectronic devices — such as the microchips in computers and cell phones — process and store information. They are crucial to our…
Argonne researchers have created a new device that acts like a superconductivity switch, helping boost the signal of tiny particles in particle colliders. In particle…
Expanding possibilities for superconducting qubits. For years, niobium was considered an underperformer when it came to superconducting qubits. Now scientists supported by Q-NEXT have found…
Gravitational lensing maps from initial data promise even more detail. Argonne is part of a multi-institutional effort to survey the sky for clues about the…
Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters. Generative AI techniques, machine learning, and simulations give researchers…
Researchers at Argonne have conducted a comprehensive study of soft shorts, a phenomenon that is an early step toward permanent failure in a battery. An…
Diamond and lithium niobate are combined to serve as a core component for future quantum technologies Diamond and lithium niobate are often touted as high-performance…
Recent research indicates that mouse and primate brains mature at a similar rate. A study by Argonne National Laboratory finds that both short-lived mice and…
Material has potential applications in superconducting circuits for the next generation of industrial electronics. Researchers used the Advanced Photon Source to verify the rare characteristics…
Breakthrough by Argonne, UChicago researchers could help pave way for quantum infrastructure. In work supported by the Q-NEXT quantum research center, scientists “stretch” thin films…
Breakthrough realized for retaining quantum information in a single-electron quantum bit. Argonne and partners attained a major milestone toward quantum computing based on single-electron qubits:…
Ultrafast lasers and X-rays have revealed the coupling between electronic and nuclear dynamics in molecules. Nearly a century ago, physicists Max Born and J. Robert…