David Streets, a senior scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, has studied Beijing's air pollution.

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Unless you're DOE biologist Peter Larsen at the Argonne National Laboratory, who would probably argue your legal tender has been double-headed all along.

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Adding wind power to the existing electric grid may not have the effect of reducing carbon emissions as much as expected, according to a new study published by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.

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Co-author Dr Benjamin Blaiszik, now at Argonne National Laboratory, explained that the self-healing circuitry could find uses in a military setting where it would be exposed to extreme stresses or in long-term space applications.

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Smarr is forging fiber links among computers at Urbana-Champaign, San Diego, CalTech and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to form a "TeraGrid, " capable of performing 13.5 trillion operations per second, as powerful as 13, 000 desktop computers.

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In an event today at the Argonne National Laboratory President Obama will be talking up his proposal, first mentioned in his State of the Union address, to create something called the Energy Security Trust.

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But the machine best suited for doing this work, the proposed rare-isotope accelerator that could be built either at Michigan State University or at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, has been delayed by lack of funds.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear physics

We were surprised to learn that a biologist at the Argonne National Laboratory is transforming the data found in blue-green algae into music, while researchers at Michigan State discovered that super-strong bacteria can produce nuggets of gold.

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Alexei Abrikosov, who now works at the Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois, and Vitaly Ginzburg of the Lebedev Physical Institute, in Moscow, were responsible for discovering how type-II superconductors work (it is all down to the behaviour of their electrons).

ECONOMIST: The Nobel prizes