• ORNL scientists Adam Aczel and Gabriele Sala stand beside the High Flux Isotope Reactor’s FIE-TAX instrument. Ross and her team used FIE-TAX to explore ytterbium silicate’s microstructure and find evidence for a BEC phase. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)

    Understanding quantum matter

    Using neutrons to illuminate quantum behaviors could contribute to future technology
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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

    Just add water (and air)

    New material captures and converts toxic air pollutant into industrial chemical
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  • John Katsaras’ advances in technique, instrument and sample development for neutron and x-ray scattering have helped answer science questions about biological membranes. Credit: Carlos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy

    John Katsaras

    Sharing neutron knowledge for biomembrane research
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  • Researcher Koichi Taniguchi from JFE Steel Corporation holds two pieces of the company’s advanced high-strength steel held together by a friction stir spot weld. The welding process leaves a circular “onion ring” pattern (inset photo) where the overlapping steel sheets are joined. Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin

    ‘Steel onion rings’

    Friction welding joins hard-to-weld materials and leaves a distinctive mark
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  • In 2020, 39 INCITE projects will run on the Summit supercomputer.

    Tackling science’s most difficult problems

    In 2020, 39 INCITE projects will run on the Summit supercomputer.
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  • The Sound of Science

    The human element: Expanding the periodic table

    A new episode of "The Sound of Science" is now available on Apple Podcasts and Google Play Music.
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  • Corning Incorporated senior research scientist Ying Shi (left) uses neutron scattering to understand the structure–property correlation in glass to make new compositions. Her son, Albert Song (right), wrote data analysis code for her project and joined her on a recent visit to the Spallation Neutron Source. Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.

    The way is clear

    Corning taps neutrons for developing new glass compositions
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  • The St. John’s University team prepares to compete at ORNL during the December 2018 CyberForce event. Credit: Jeffrey A. Nichols/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy

    CyberForce Competition

    College students will hone their cybersecurity skills in a real-world setting at DOE's fifth collegiate CyberForce Competition.
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  • Researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, are using neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop a novel technique to analyze materials exhibiting exotic types of magnetic behavior. Shown here is bixbyite, a manganese oxide mineral found in South Africa, that experiences an unusual magnetic phase transition at low temperatures. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)

    Finding order in chaos

    Identifying a material’s magnetic structure is a key to unlocking new features and higher performance in electronic devices.
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  • Marissa Morales Rodriguez of ORNL’s Sensors and Embedded Systems Group. Image credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL

    DarkNet

    Lighting up a secure grid communication network
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ORNL to take on nine power grid modernization projects as part of DOE award
ORNL will take on nine power grid modernization projects as part of a U.S. Department of Energy award. ⚡️
ORNL's Parans Paranthaman was named top scientist at the lab's annual Awards Night.
ORNL's Parans Paranthaman was named top scientist at the lab's annual Awards Night. Congratulations to all of this year's honorees! 👏

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