Articles by Megan Fellman-Argonne National Laboratory News Office

Sparks literally fly when a sperm and an egg hit it off. The fertilized mammalian egg releases from its surface billions of zinc atoms in “zinc sparks,” one wave after another, found a Northwestern University-led interdisciplinary research team that includes experts from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.  

Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne Lab now know more about common freshwater alga's ability to remove strontium from water