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(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) The basic molecules that make up all living things have a predetermined chirality or "handedness," similar to the way people are right or left handed.

This chirality has a profound influence on the chemistry and molecular interactions of living organisms. Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to induce this handedness in pre-biological molecules.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) As the stock market continues its dive, economists and business columnists have spilled a lot of ink assigning responsibility for the ongoing financial calamity.

While hindsight might be clear as day, researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are trying to create new economic models that will provide policymakers with more realistic pictures of different types of markets so they can better avert future economic catastrophe.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been named a winner of the annual High Performance Computing Challenge Award at the SuperComputing 08 Conference in Austin, Texas.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and in sensors to detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) Scientists at US Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks.

Behaving as molecular-scale sponges these MOFs have wide ranging potential uses for filtering, capturing or detecting molecules such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen storage for fuel cells.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have won an $800,000 EUREKA award from the National Institutes of Health to develop MADMAX, a precise molecular ruler for measuring distances within a protein.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) Oxide scales are supposed to protect alloys from extensive corrosion, but scientists at US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered metal nanoparticle chinks in this armor.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out.Dynamic frustration has been found to be the cause of glassy behavior in materials that previously had none of the features of a normal glass.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and their industrial partners have won two R&D 100 Awards for innovative fluid sealing and lithium-ion battery technologies.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) A new, patented catalyst developed by scientists at Argonne National Laboratory that can reliably and economically reduce between 95 and 100 percent of the nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel-fueled engines has been licensed to Integrated Fuel Technologies, Inc., a Washington state start-up company with offices in Spokane and Kirkland.