• ORNL researchers found the papain-like protease (in orange) can bind to the human interferon-stimulated gene 15 protein (in blue) in multiple ways and shapes. Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL

    Shape shifter

    Neutrons catch coronavirus protein complex in the act
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  • Aviation contributes about 2.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions. To greatly reduce its emissions, the U.S. commercial aviation sector needs new methods of making sustainable aviation fuel. Credit: Ross Parmly/Unsplash

    Ethanol-to-jet-fuel conversion

    An opportunity to shift jet fuel and other fuel products away from petroleum
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  • ORNL and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists studied the formation of amorphous ice like the exotic ice found in interstellar space and on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    Space ice, un-Earthly cold

    Researchers have created amorphous ice, similar to that in interstellar space and on icy worlds in our solar system
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  • As a water resources engineer, Carly Hansen uses her skills in engineering, remote sensing and data science to evaluate hydropower across the United States. Credit: Genevieve Martin, ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy.

    Carly Hansen

    Rethinking what’s possible for hydropower in the United States
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  • L-R: ORNL’s Omer Onar and Veda Galigekere with the dynamic wireless charging test bed at ORNL’s Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center. Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy

    Hands-free

    Wireless charging system advances electric vehicle convenience
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  • Brenda Smith, shown here working with a gas viscometer in her research lab, is one of several people concurrently researching the thermophysical properties of feedstock gas. Their research will support computational researchers who are designing processes to separate isotopes. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, US Dept. of Energy

    Brenda Smith

    New chances to contribute with chemistry
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  • ORNL’s Sergei Kalinin and Rama Vasudevan (foreground) use scanning probe microscopy to study bulk ferroelectricity and surface electrochemistry -- and generate a lot of data. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

    Tackling big data

    ORNL’s superb materials expertise, data and AI tools propel progress
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#IsotopeFunFactFriday: @ORNL is the only U.S. producer of #promethium-147, an in-demand power #isotope. ORNL is now recovering leftover Pm-147 from the lab’s production of #plutonium-238, an isotope it produces for @NASA 's #space exploration.
ORNL has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy, COSI Columbus' Dynamic Hands-On Science Center! and the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network to deliver hundreds of free #STEM kits to several schools in East Tennessee.
ORNL has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy, COSI Columbus' Dynamic Hands-On Science Center! and the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network to deliver hundreds of free #STEM kits to several schools in East Tennessee.
Through the QSC, @ORNL and its partners will develop quantum technologies and advance quantum materials, sensors, and algorithms.
Through the QSC, @ORNL and its partners will develop quantum technologies and advance quantum materials, sensors, and algorithms.

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