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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 9h

We would like to extend a hearty "welcome back to the APS" to Mike Edelen, who begins his tenure as the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Operations today. Mike previously was director of our APS Engineering Services division. Good to have you back, Mike! www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/202...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ICYMI: Constance Vanni and her staff keep the complex mechanism that is the APS User Program humming. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/202... Also, a reminder that proposals are now being accepted for the first user run of 2027. The deadline is Oct. 21. Learn more: www.aps.anl.gov/Users-Inform...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI: Proton irradiation could help make rechargeable batteries cheaper and more sustainable by improving the performance of cathodes made from abundant materials like iron and manganese. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Friday! We'll send you into the weekend with some images from the 14th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering, which was held at the APS last week. Thanks to all who attended!

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Throwback Thursday! Four years ago, researchers from the University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago used the X-ray beams of the Advanced Photon Source to try to solve a decades-old art mystery. bit.ly/4rsrAqW

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICYMI: This feature on nanoscience at Argonne includes both the Advanced Photon Source and the Center for Nanoscale Materials and delves into the science of the very small. www.anl.gov/article/nanoscience-whe…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Researchers used Advanced Photon Source X-rays to show that irradiation helps the structure of battery cathodes reversibly change during charging and discharging. The result could pave the way for more durable batteries that rely on widely available materials. bit.ly/4xtiLP1

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy Monday. It is National Postdoc Appreciation Week! Here at the APS we are endlessly appreciative of all of our hard-working postdoctoral researchers. If you know a postdoc, give them some recognition this week.

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Researchers have developed a smarter way to use X-rays to see nanoscale structures in 3D. The approach, powered by advanced computing and tested on the Polaris supercomputer, could make large-scale, nondestructive imaging of biological tissue faster and more precise. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Throwback Thursday! Five years ago, Argonne became one of the first institutions to study fragments of the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Read more below! www.anl.gov/article/spac... www.anl.gov/article/secr...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A study using X-ray techniques at the Advanced Photon Source found that recovered phosphorus releases more slowly than conventional fertilizers, which could offer benefits for long-term soil nutrient management. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Put simply, nanoscience is the study of really small stuff. At the Advanced Photon Source, we specialize in it, as does our fellow DOE Office of Science user facility, the Center for Nanoscale Materials. You can read more about both facilities below. www.anl.gov/article/nano...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Congratulations to Principal Mechanical Engineer Michael Fagan and Physicist Sarvjit Shastri on their awards from the Argonne Board of Governors. Read more below! www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/2026-09-09…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This weekend the 14th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering begins at the Advanced Photon Source. If you're attending, welcome! All the information you need is at the link. Have a good conference! web.cvent.com/event/27c946d3-481c-4….

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Science Friday! Researchers have used DNA to build something nature doesn’t have: programmable, low-symmetry crystals with unusual optical properties. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Congrats to our own Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence Group Leader Mathew Cherukara, honored by Purdue University as one of their 38 by 38. Read more below! www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/2026-09-03…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ICYMI: Researchers used Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 to highlight how AI and powerful X-ray tools could work together to accelerate drug discovery. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Science Friday! Researchers have discovered that a key material used to build advanced oxide electronics doesn’t grow quite the way scientists thought. The finding could reshape how scientists design and build complex oxide materials. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Throwback Thursday! We brought the last two of our new feature beamlines, 3DMN and Atomic, online last cycle. Below you'll see some images from first experiments, including scientists from Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University. Stay tuned for the next chapter of science at the APS!

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Researchers used AlphaFold 3 and the Advanced Photon Source to highlight how AI and powerful X-ray tools could work together to accelerate drug discovery. Read more! www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We're a couple weeks away from the 14th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering, which we are hosting here at the APS. Between Sept. 13 and Sept. 18 will be more than 50 talks on techniques and scientific results in the inelastic X-ray scattering realm. bit.ly/4qMqIx3

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Science Friday! Catch up with this story about an AI-driven method for materials discovery that can reduce breakthrough times from months to days. www.anl.gov/article/scientists-depl…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Using optical and time-resolved X-ray techniques at the Advanced Photon Source, researchers discovered a light-induced structural phase that lasts for milliseconds, revealing a new way these materials can store the effects of light. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ICYMI: Scientists at the APS have created a physics-aware machine learning tool to deliver analysis results in real time, and they've called it Diffraction with Optics for Nanobeam by Unsupervised Training, or DONUT. Cue the puns! Science is fun! www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/202...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Science Friday! Researchers are designing new antibiotics to fight two drug-resistant pathogens. By modifying natural antibiotic compounds and using X-ray crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source, the team identified promising candidates for further development. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Throwback Thursday! Flash back to two years ago this week, when the Advanced Photon Source set a world record for electron beam emittance. With this measurement the APS officially became the brightest synchrotron X-ray light source in the world. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/202...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Meet Mechanical Engineer Heath Wayman, who helped to design the 1,321 magnets that make up the new APS storage ring, in the latest of our People of the APS series of profiles. www.anl.gov/article/heat...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Using ultrabright X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source, researchers watched how stresses develop during laser processing, revealing insights that could help optimize additive manufacturing and produce stronger, more reliable aerospace components. Read more below! www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Science Friday! The APS will be used for this U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project that aims to use AI to reduce the time of new materials discovery from months to days. www.anl.gov/article/scientists-depl…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Artificial intelligence has transformed the way scientific research is performed and scientific data is analyzed. If you're interested to learn more about how AI is used at Argonne, sign up to attend the next OutLoud event on September 17 at 6 p.m. Central time. www.anl.gov/event/the-ne...

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The Next Frontier: How AI Is Reshaping Discovery at Argonne

Long before "artificial intelligence" was a household term, Argonne was building the machines and concepts that would make it possible.

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What could be sweeter than a story about a physics-aware neural network sprinkled with donut puns? Click below for a deep dive into the machine learning tool for X-ray science called DONUT, with pastry-themed humor baked in. www.anl.gov/article/a-ta...

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A taste of discovery: Real-time X-ray data analysis with DONUT accelerates materials science at Argonne

Argonne’s DONUT, a machine learning tool, delivers real-time X-ray data analysis at the Advanced Photon Source, giving scientists faster insights into material structures and accelerating discovery in...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Science Friday! APS scientists are part of this project that has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission. Data from the APS will help train AI agents to discover miniscule defects in microelectronic components. Read more! www.anl.gov/article/pred...

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Predicting microelectronics performance with physics-informed artificial intelligence

Researchers from Argonne and partner institutions are developing an AI framework to predict how defects evolve and affect the performance, stability and lifetime of microelectronic devices.

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Congratulations to the international Dark Energy Survey collaboration on the release of six years of data from their detailed map of a section of the sky. The Advanced Photon Source was used to characterize the primary imaging sensors of the Dark Energy Camera. www.anl.gov/article/land...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ICYMI: Using ultrabright X-rays at the APS, researchers uncovered the molecular details of how a major class of antibiotics selectively stalls bacterial protein production, opening the door to designing new drugs that can outsmart antibiotic resistance. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Big news around these parts. Paul Kearns has served Argonne National Laboratory with distinction for more than a decade, and his leadership will be missed. Congrats on a well-earned retirement! www.anl.gov/article/paul...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Science Friday! Using X-rays at the APS, researchers uncovered the molecular details of how a major class of antibiotics selectively stalls bacterial protein production. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-Highlig…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Using ultrabright X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source, researchers uncovered why some crystals trap more defects than others during growth. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-Highlig…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Argonne is a part of a project led by Rice University to build an AI engine for sustainable biomanufacturing. This project received funding through the @U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission. news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice-resear…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Science Friday! Using ultrabright X-rays at the APS, researchers watched how stresses develop during laser processing. Read more below! www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-Highlig…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Here is Northwestern University's press release on the Genesis Mission projects they are contributing to, including the Argonne-led CMOS + X. Professor Jie Gu will serve as Northwestern's PI on this project. bit.ly/44EUoSH

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Congratulations to APS scientists Robert Von Dreele and Brian Toby on receiving the 2026 Neutron Scattering Society of America Service Award! Their GSAS software has helped researchers transform complex data into discoveries across many different fields of study. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/202...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Science Friday! Scientists have combined powerful X-rays with machine learning to reveal patterns in how stainless steel deforms under stress. This could help researchers design more durable metals by uncovering the microscopic defects that control their strength. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ICYMI: Researchers have created a blueprint for designing next-generation cancer therapies that target multiple RAS proteins at once, potentially improving outcomes for patients with KRAS-driven cancers. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Researchers at the APS developed a new imaging system that creates detailed temperature maps while collecting X-ray diffraction data. This advance will help researchers study how materials melt and transform under the extreme conditions found deep inside planets. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Science Friday! Farhad Fatakia has been collecting ancient coins from the time of the Persian empire for years. These coins contain no date markings. To learn more about when and where they were made, Fatakia brought his coins to the APS to identify the elemental composition of their base metals.

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Meet Assistant Mechanical Engineer Chasen Wolford, who designs systems behind the powerful beamlines at the APS, in the latest in our People of the APS profile series. www.anl.gov/article/chas...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Remembering Peter B. Littlewood, respected physicist and former director of Argonne National Laboratory. www.anl.gov/article/remembering-pet…

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A new catalyst could make it easier to turn methane and carbon dioxide into fuels and industrial chemicals. Using X-rays, researchers revealed how the catalyst can stay active for days at the extreme temperatures needed for the reaction. www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-...

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Join us in wishing the United States of America a happy 250th!

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Advanced Photon Source @advancedphoton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy 80 years and one day, Argonne. Read more about the history and achievements of America's first national lab - including the world's first usable electricity from nuclear energy, in 1951 (see photo!). www.anl.gov/article/eighty-years-an…

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