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"Chicago Tonight" tours Argonne National Laboratory.
Argonne National Laboratory, just southwest of Chicago, has been at the cutting edge of molecular scale research for almost three decades.
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Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source Getting $815M Upgrade
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Argonne National Laboratory, just southwest of Chicago, has been at the cutting edge of molecular scale research for almost three decades.
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SUCH X-RAYS IS ALREADY PART OF THE REALITY.
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NOW, GOING OFF-LINE WITH IN $850 MILLION UPGRADE.
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IT'S A WAY THAT WE CAN PROBE AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL AND SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN A PROTEIN MOLECULE.
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