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Argonne National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy lab near Chicago researching nuclear science, materials, energy and advanced computing.
Argonne and Illinois researchers coupled spin waves to a superconducting resonator in a layered device. The hybrid mode travels in one direction, a preference spin waves show under certain conditions.
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NVIDIA committed $1 billion over five years and announced seven national-lab systems, led by Argonne's Solstice with around 100,000 Blackwell GPUs. Solstice targets AI work at 4 to 16 bits, so labs that need double precision are left weighing emulation against native FP64 hardware.
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Nvidia committed $1 billion over five years to US science research tied to the Trump administration's Genesis Mission. It has not published how the money splits, so labs and cloud buyers cannot yet tell who gets compute or when.
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Argonne scientists using 3D, real-time X-ray imaging saw an ultrafast laser pulse's energy travel through silicon carbide in two distinct ways. Mapping that energy below the surface is groundwork for placing qubit defects exactly where engineers want them.
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Lawrence Livermore's CHICOX counter ran nine experiments on 13 nuclei at Argonne's ATLAS facility in its first campaign. Its builders say the data can test predictive models of nuclear shape, though the paper published so far describes the instrument itself.
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An international team inferred the rate from gamma rays given off by krypton-89 at Argonne and found it below theoretical predictions. Feeding it back into i-process simulations raised how much strontium they make.
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After nearly half a century of research, Argonne says pyroprocessing could cut radioactive waste storage from hundreds of thousands of years to hundreds. Its nuclear chemist puts the reactor choice first and the fuel cycle second.
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Transition-edge sensors cooled near absolute zero measured the X-ray lines that sit inside the gamma-ray band used to identify nuclear material. Anyone who wants one also has to buy the refrigerator that keeps it cold.
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Illinois chemists ran the reaction at room temperature in 20 minutes with no added catalyst. The harder question is what the new molecule is worth against the mill boiler that currently burns the feedstock.
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Twelve pennycress lines, 360 plants and more than 24,000 camera observations went into a nickel screen whose analysis now takes minutes, though the accumulation figures that would make phytomining a supply story sit outside the release.
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The pump-free microreactor is marketed for industrial heat up to about 1,100C. The data-generation work now underway at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories covers performance above 900C, which is the part a regulator can check.
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Emergency dose models have been leaning on resuspension factors inherited from Cold War desert tests. Argonne put walkers, marchers, a vacuum and an SUV on dusted concrete and measured the numbers instead.
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Laura Gagliardi's lab reports UCHI-1 and UCHI-2 for methane/nitrogen separation. The interesting assertion is about the handoff, not the frameworks.
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HiddenLayer says it will contribute to Prometheus, the Idaho-led federal effort to put AI into reactor work. The Phase II selection belongs to the consortium, and still depends on appropriations.
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A Science paper from RHIC's STAR detector backs a 1996 proposal that a Y-shaped gluon junction carries baryon number. The collider stopped running in early 2026, so the dataset is closed.
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The Argonne-led hybrid pairs a cheap semiconductor with a light-absorbing membrane from salt-loving microbes, and out-produced the semiconductor alone by more than five times.
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Brookhaven's STAR collaboration reports in Science that baryon number rides on a Y-shaped gluon junction. The one-third-per-quark picture in the textbooks would have to go.
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The deal folds lead-cooled and salt-cooled reactor lines into one program and hands a microreactor developer a spent-fuel separation process already tested on irradiated fuel.
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