Science and Research Highlights

Science and Research Highlights http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights Highlights of research occurring at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. en-us Argonne National Laboratory http://www.aps.anl.gov/Images/argonne_header_logo_white.jpg http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights 227 100 http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20081030.php Watching Liquids Separate at White Heat October 30, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20081022.php How Ancient Rock Got Off to a Hot Start October 22, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20081021b.php A Quantum of Vibration in an Unexpected Place October 21, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20081021.php A Virus That Can Infect Lung Cancer Cells October 21, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20081003.php Imaging Plant Viruses Could Yield New Ways to Safeguard Crops October 3, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080926.php Extreme Pressure Reveals a Volume Expansion Phenomenon September 26, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080925b.php A Nuclear Receptor with Implications for a Host of Diseases September 25, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080925.php Unexpected Materials in Earth’s Lowermost Mantle September 25, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080917.php Nailing Down the Exciton in LiF September 17, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080910.php DNA Editing Tool Flips Its Target September 10, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080813.php Unraveling a Leukemia Thread August 13, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080811.php Quantum Physics Makes Water Different August 11, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080808b.php Weird Oxygen Bonding under Pressure august 8, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080808.php A Breakthrough in Improving Osteoporosis Drug Design August 8, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080730.php Allaying Structural-Alloy Corrosion July 30, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080729.php Putting the Pressure on MOFs July 30, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080716B.php Hearing the Highest Pitches July 16, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080716.php Newly Described “Dragon” Protein Could Be Key to Bird Flu Cure July 16, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080609.php Unveiling the Secrets of Nanoparticle Haloing JUNE 9, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080530.php A Fruit-Fly Protein that Captures Tumor Growth Factors MAY 30, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080505B.php An X-ray Vortex on the Horizon? MAY 5, 2008

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080505.php A Protein that Repairs Damage to Cancer Cells MAY 5, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080424B.php Scientists Discover How Nanocluster Contaminants Increase Risk of Spreading APRIL 24, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080424.php How Two Drops Become One APRIL 24, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080410.php Mobile RNA is Poised and Ready APRIL 10, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080404.php Glass Does a Double-Take APRIL 4, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080319.php Welcoming a New Family of Superconductors APRIL 3, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080226C.php Assembling Nanoparticles the Easy DNA-Way February 26, 2008

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080226B.php The Collagen Protein Viewed at Unprecedented Detail February 26, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080226.php A Lensless X-ray Camera for Nanoscale Materials and Biological Specimens February 26, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080220.php Better, cleaner fuel injectors for automobiles? February 20, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080211.php Poxvirus Potency Uncovered in New Atomic Map February 11, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080206.php Striking Nano Gold February 6, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080201.php Oldest Known Magnet’s Secrets Revealed Under High Pressures February 1, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20080123.php Shedding Light on Protein Drug Interactions January 23, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_NEWS_20081023b.php A New Spin on Inducing Chirality in Pre-biological Molecules October 23, 2008 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20071221.php Hybrid Semiconductors for Hardier Electronics and Optoelectronics? December 21, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20071203.php Unveiling the Molecular Structure of the Target of Many Drugs DECEMBER 3, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20071127.php A New Scenario for First Life on Earth NOVEMBER 27, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20071121.php Surface Orbital 'Roughness' in Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxide NOVEMBER 21, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20071017.php Different Roads Toward Quantum Criticality OCTOBER 17, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20071015.php Orbital Reconstruction at a Complex Oxide Interface OCTOBER 15, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20071012.php Bringing Antimicrobial Agents into the Light OCTOBER 12, 2007 ]]> science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070924.php Logic Tells Us that Appearances May Be Deceptive SEPTEMBER 24, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070921.php Detecting a Spin Transition Zone in Earth’s Lower Mantle SEPTEMBER 21, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070823.php A 450-million-year-old Protein Reveals Evolution's Steps AUGUST 23, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070808.php What Keeps Bugs from Being Bigger? AUGUST 8, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070801.php A Mystery No More AUGUST 1, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070712.php Understanding Materials Under High Pressure JULY 12, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070711.php Malaria-resistant Mosquitoes Battle Disease with “Molecular Warhead” JULY 11, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070625.php A New Picture of Earth's Lower Mantle? JUNE 25, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070622.php Immune System's Fat Problem Solved JUNE 22, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070618.php Getting to the Core of Luminescent Nanowires JUNE 18, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070615.php Giant Magnetocaloric Materials Could Have Large Impact on the Environment JUNE 15, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070529.php Tracking the Origins of Fossil Fuels MAY 29, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070523.php Tailoring the Properties of Magnetic Nanostructures MAY 23, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070511.php X-ray Holograms Expose Secret Magnetism MAY 11, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070502B.php One Giant Leap for Radiation Biology? MAY 2, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070502.php How Dissolved Metal Ions Interact in Solution MAY 2, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070329B.php Novel Experiments on Cement Yield Concrete Results MARCH 29, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070329.php What's in the Cage Matters in Iron Antimonide Thermoelectric Materials MARCH 29, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070328.php Watching a Glycine Riboswitch "Switch" MARCH 28, 2007

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070314.php Polyamorphism in a Metallic Glass MARCH 14, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070307B.php New Nanoscale Engineering Breakthrough Points to Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles MARCH 7, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070307.php Under Pressure, Vanadium Won't Turn Down the Volume MARCH 7, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070306.php Patterning High-density Arrays of Nanospheres with Self Assembly MARCH 6, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070220.php Cells Forming Blood Vessels Send Their Copper to the Edge FEBRUARY 20, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070212.php A Molecular Cause for One Form of Deafness FEBRUARY 12, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070122.php Water Theory is Watertight JANUARY 22, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070111.php Nanowire Micronetworks from Carbon-Black Nanoparticles JANUARY 11, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070110B.php An X-ray Rainbow JANUARY 10, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070110.php A Key Step in Repairing DNA Double-Strand Breaks JANUARY 10, 2007 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20070108.php An Insulating Breakthrough JANUARY 8, 2007 science highlight