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_20111215.php Structural Snapshots of Tankyrase, a Protein Involved in a Rare Genetic Disorder and Potential Cancer Target December 15, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111122.php The Road to Ultrahigh-Resolution X-ray Spectrometers November 22, 2011

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111117.php How Atoms Behave: Characteristics of Microstructural Avalanches November 17, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111111.php Iodate Refuses to Intimidate November 11, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111027.php Creating the Heart of a Planet in the Heart of a Gem OCTOBER 27, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111026C.php Hard as Diamond: A New Form of Carbon Created under Ultrahigh Pressure OCTOBER 26, 2011 scription: Amorphous diamond 3

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111026B.php Taking a Page from Nature to Build Better Nanomaterials OCTOBER 26, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111026.php How a Powerful Antibody Neutralizes HIV October 26, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111020.php How Algae Use a “Sulfate Trap” to Selectively Biomineralize Strontium October 20, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20111018.php Emulating—and Surpassing—Nature October 18, 2011

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110916.php Reducing Stress in Multilayer Laue Lenses SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110915.php Novel Magnetic Material Operates under Extreme Stress Conditions SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 scription: LMNO.jpg

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110907.php Ringing the Hemoglobin Bell SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110822.php Bragg Reflectivity of X-rays: At the Limit of the Possible August 22, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110809B.php Coherent Diffractive Imaging in Living Color AUGUST 9, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110809.php Sending a Message: How Receptors Talk to G Proteins AUGUST 9, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110729.php An Understanding of Elastin’s Properties Springs Forth JuLY 29, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110727.php Visualizing the Flow of Molten Rock through Seabed Mantle JuLY 27, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110719.php How Dinosaurs Put Proteins into Long-Term Storage JuLY 19, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110714.php Plutonium Tricks Cells by "Pretending" to be Iron JuLY 14, 2011

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110705.php A Chemical Detour to Quantum Criticality JuLY 7, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110617.php Metallic Glass: A Crystal at Heart June 17, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110615.php Brain Iron as an Early Predictor of Alzheimer’s Disease June 15, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110510.php Osmosis in Colloidal Suspensions May 10, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110423.php Building a Better Battery April 23, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110331.php A New Method for Measuring X-ray Optics Aberrations March 31, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110317.php New Clues for Asthma Treatment March 17, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110315.php Extending Resonant Diffraction to Very High Energies for Structural Studies of Complex Materials March 15, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110215.php Tuning the Collective Properties of Artificial Nanoparticle Supercrystals February 15, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110128.php The Workings of a Key Staph Enzyme and How to Block It January 28, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20110113.php Simple Lithium Is Good For Many Surprises January 13, 2011 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20120210.php Manipulating Genes with Hidden TALENs February 10, 2012 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20120125.php A New Discovery Answers an Old Question January 25, 2012 scription: MSL11-13409_Fig2_new_re.tif

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20120106.php Peering into the Interfaces of Nanoscale Polymeric Materials January 6, 2012 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20120103.php Ironing Out the Details of the Earth's Core January 3, 2012 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101221.php The Molecular Mechanism of Stretch Activation in Insect Muscle December 21, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101217B.php Assessing the Risk of Arsenic Ingestion December 17, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101217.php A Newly Discovered DNA Repair Mechanism December 17, 2010

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101209.php An Electronic Dance of Spins and Orbits December 9, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101208.php How a Virus Prepares to Infect Cells December 8, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101202.php Magnetic Switching under Pressure December 2, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101123.php Revealing the Secrets of Chemical Bath Deposition November 24, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101117B.php Velcro for Nanoparticles November 17, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101117.php DNA Repair Protein Caught in the Act of Molecular Theft November 17, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101116.php A Molecular Fossil November 16, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101109.php Ultrafast Imaging of Electron Waves in Graphene November 9, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101102.php When Size Matters: Yttrium Oxide Breaking Down Under Pressure November 2, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20101022.php Breakthrough in Nanocrystals’ Growth October 22, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100930B.php A Boring Material “Stretched” Could Lead to an Electronics Revolution September 30, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100930.php Next Step to Drought-Resistant Plants? September 30, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100921.php At the Crossroads of Chromosomes September 21, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100914.php Unveiling the Structure of Adenovirus September 14, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100826C.php Probing Spin Liquids with a New Pulsed-Magnet System AUGUST 26, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100826B.php In or Out: Setting a Trap for Radioactive Iodine AUGUST 26, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100826.php Making Silicon Melt in Reverse AUGUST 26, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100702.php Making a Magnetic Moment in a Split Picosecond JuLY 1, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100701.php Unpeeling Atoms and Molecules from the Inside Out June 30, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100630.php Butterfly Wing Yields Clues to Light-Altering Structures JUNE 30, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100528B.php Quick-Change Molecules Caught in the Act May 28, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100528.php Squeezing Information from Materials under Extreme Pressure MaY 28, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100422.php The Molecular Mechanics of Hearing and Deafness April 23, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100411.php Cementing the Structure of CSHs May 12, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100406.php Self– and X-ray–Induced Crystallization of Supramolecular Filaments APRIL 7, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100331.php An Anti-Cancer Drug that Stunts Tumor Growth March 31, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100329.php Metallic Glass Yields Secrets under Pressure March 29, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100326.php The Structure of the "Swine Flu" Virus March 17, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100323.php The Package Matters March 23, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100315.php Disarming Deadly South American Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses March 15, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100304.php Pull-Chain “Polymer” Solves Puzzle of Complex Molecular Packing March 4, 2010 science highlight

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Science/Highlights/Content/APS_SCIENCE_20100224.php Discovering New Talents for Diamond February 25, 2010 science highlight