Argonne National Laboratory

09/05/2026

STEM educators, this day is designed for you - https://bit.ly/4gwaWmH

📅 September 24
🕣 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Central
📌 Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)

Come to Argonne for the AI STEM Education Summit - AI in Action, to learn, connect and explore how AI is changing science and the skills students will need for what comes next.

Register today! - https://bit.ly/4gwaWmH

09/04/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED! 🚨 Registration for the inaugural Sodium Battery Summit (NaBS), taking place Sept. 22-23 at Argonne, is now open through Sept. 10 for all prospective attendees, regardless of citizenship.

Join experts from across the sodium battery community for two days of programming focused on manufacturing, end users, domestic supply chain resilience and next-generation R&D.

This is the room to be in. Register today: https://bit.ly/4pQndoU

09/04/2026

The universe just came into focus like never before! 🌌

Argonne is proud to collaborate with The University of Chicago and more than two dozen institutions on the sharpest map yet of matter in the distant universe, created using data from the South Pole Telescope. By tracing how the oldest light in the universe is subtly bent by gravity, scientists have produced the deepest “mass map” to date—offering new clues about how cosmic structure formed and evolved over billions of years.

This collaborative effort, powered in part by Argonne principal investigators and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation (NSF), strengthens our understanding of the cosmos and helps test key ideas about dark matter, dark energy, and the growth of structure in the universe.

Explore the full story from our partners at the University of Chicago: https://bit.ly/46I2Ykq

Study led by UChicago researchers uses bending by gravity of the oldest light in the universe to map the intervening structure

09/03/2026

Last chance to join us in person!

Registration for in-person attendance at Argonne OutLoud: The Next Frontier: How AI Is Reshaping Discovery at Argonne closes Wednesday, Sept. 9.

Discover how Argonne researchers are using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery—from health research and high-energy physics to autonomous experiments—and learn how the laboratory's decades-long leadership in computing helped make today's AI breakthroughs possible.

Reserve your seat today: bit.ly/4xCsClZ

09/03/2026

Every year, Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program recruits a new cohort of entrepreneurs to transform breakthrough science into market-ready technologies. As CRI recruits its next cohort, its current innovators are advancing startups that strengthen U.S. leadership in emerging industries and accelerate the nation’s innovation economy.

For more information on this and other Argonne collaborations, check out our annual Partnerships and Outreach Report. ➡️ bit.ly/4pJMbFr

09/03/2026

New tools. New connections. New applications.

The 1990s brought advances at Argonne that stretched from some of the nation's most powerful scientific infrastructure to technologies that eventually reached consumers.

The Advanced Photon Source saw first light in 1995, while Argonne's I-WAY network connected supercomputers across the country for collaborative research. Argonne research during the decade also contributed to advances in battery technology, pharmaceuticals, corn-derived chemicals and methods for extracting metals from waste.

Take a look back at another decade of discovery and impact as we celebrate - https://www.anl.gov/our-history/timeline

09/02/2026

For over 40 years, one machine at Argonne has quietly helped reshape how we understand the universe: the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS).

This incredible accelerator has helped scientists develop new technologies, test materials for nuclear reactors, discover how stars make elements, and measure the building blocks of matter with amazing precision.

Watch our video to see how ATLAS has shaped science and check out the story of its 40th anniversary: https://bit.ly/4depwwN

09/01/2026

Used nuclear fuel still has a lot of energy left to give.

In our latest , Argonne chemical engineer Bethany Dean-Kersten explains how nuclear fuel recycling technologies, including pyroprocessing, could help recover more energy from used nuclear fuel while reducing the amount of waste that requires disposal.

These technologies could also help safeguard nuclear materials and support a more secure, reliable U.S. energy supply.

Watch to learn more on Argonne’s YouTube channel. ➡️ https://bit.ly/4xzVrAb

09/01/2026

Behind every beamline is engineering that turns scientific ideas into working experiments. As a mechanical engineer at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source (APS), Altaf Khan helps translate complex scientific needs into the instrumentation and components that make experiments possible: https://bit.ly/4qDekzn

From optical systems and experimental stations to radiation shielding, Khan works alongside scientists, engineers and designers to solve complex challenges. This teamwork played an important role in the recent APS Upgrade, where Khan coordinated the design of two feature beamlines: POLAR at 4-ID, which supports polarization modulation spectroscopy, and CSSI at 9-ID, which enables coherent surface scattering imaging.

Harnessing the power of the APS’s new storage ring, these beamlines will help researchers explore new possibilities in quantum science, materials science and more. Learn more about Khan’s work engineering discovery at Argonne.

Altaf Khan and his team played a major role in the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) project: they designed two feature beamlines for accelerated quantum and materials science research.

08/31/2026

For a decade, Argonne has helped science-based startups turn promising ideas into technologies and businesses with real-world potential. Through Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), 54 companies have received support, raising more than $732 million and creating over 700 U.S. jobs: https://bit.ly/4qumzh7

Launched in 2016 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Commercialization’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program, CRI connects early-stage founders with Argonne researchers, facilities and resources to help develop their technologies and bring them closer to market.

From technologies that improve indoor air quality to hardware that could help expand quantum networks, CRI founders have spent the past decade turning early ideas into growing companies. Now, the program is applying what it has learned as it enters its second decade.

Learn more about CRI’s first 10 years and what comes next.

Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory mirrors the startup journey it supports. Over 10 years, it has helped launch science-based companies that have raised $732M, created more than 700 jobs and advanced transformative technologies.