• California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) professor Ally Fry-Petit encourages undergraduate students to visit large research facilities like the Spallation Neutron Source for a glimpse of potential careers in science. From left to right: CSUF senior Daniel Sandoval, Fry-Petit, and CSUF junior Jose Gonzalez Jimenez Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin

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  • Researchers work with a cryogenic chamber at the Spallation Neutron Source’s ARCS instrument. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)

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  • Ernest Wollan (right) and Clifford Shull (left) performing neutron diffraction research at ORNL’s X-10 Graphite Reactor in 1949. Image credit: ORNL

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  • An artist rendering of the SKA’s low-frequency, cone-shaped antennas in Western Australia. Credit: SKA Project Office.

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  • Illustration of the optimized zeolite catalyst (NbAlS-1), which enables a highly efficient chemical reaction to create butene, a renewable source of energy, without expending high amounts of energy for the conversion. Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman

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  • Illustration of a nitrogen dioxide molecule (depicted in blue and purple) captured in a nano-size pore of an MFM-520 metal-organic framework material as observed using neutron vibrational spectroscopy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman

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