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Vol. 56, No. 2, (Spring 2023)
- Editorial: Making an exascale impact with Frontier
- To the Point: ORNL gets a new lab director and deputy for operations, recyclable composites help drive net-zero goal, new insights advance atomic-scale manufacturing
- Entering the Exascale Age: Exascale impact: The Frontier supercomputer gets to work, ORNL’s methodical leap into the exascale era, exascale tools for developing new reactors, OLCF teams fine-tune Frontier for science, Pioneering Frontier
- Focus on Computing: Quantifying qudits: Measurements provide glimpse of quantum future
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Cell membrane discovery heralds computing advances, anode material paves the way for fast battery charging, adsorbent material filters toxic chromium, arsenic from water supplies
- Focus on Neutrons: Add-on device makes home furnaces cleaner
- Focus on National Security: Location intelligence shines a light on disinformation
- Infographic: Scientific computing at ORNL
- Focus on Biology: Tiny, revved-up microbe tackles big plastics challenge, neutrons reveal how the spider lily preys on cancer cells
- Focus on Nuclear: East Tennessee looks to bolster nuclear workforce
- Focus on Manufacturing: 3D-printed home made from biobased materials
- Focus on Transportation: Researchers explore hydrogen power for railways
- Focus on Grid: Blockchain helps increase electric grid resiliency
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Kay Way: The mother of nuclear data
- Research Insights: Additive Manufacturing the Future, Part I: Applications for Additive Manufacturing
Vol. 56, No. 1, (Winter 2023)
- Editorial: The uniqueness of ORNL
- To the Point: Energy secretary attends isotope, facility event, racing company, licenses ORNL battery technology, existing water pipes are an untapped power source
- Focus on Computing: Frontier study could uncover new cures, treatments; accelerating drug discovery with AI; computational tools promote children’s mental health
- Focus on Neutrons: Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle; neutrons show how promising peptide fights antibiotic-resistant bacteria; neutrons shed light on methane-to-methanol conversion
- Focus on National Security: Researchers use seismology, radiation detection to bolster nonproliferation efforts
- Focus on Grid: ORNL sensor research helps fight wildfires; ORNL research to bring more reliable electricity to Puerto Rican microgrids
- Focus on Climate: Predicting climate change in vulnerable neighborhoods
- Focus on Botany: Listening in on soil conversations with rhizosphere-on-a-chip
- Early Career Scientists: The best is yet to come: ORNL’s Early Career Research Program award winners
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Libby Johnson: On the frontier for nuclear safety
- Research Insights: Toward a Carbon Neutral Future, Part II: Technologies for a more carbon-friendly future
Vol. 53, No. 3, (Fall 2020)
- Editorial: Applying diverse expertise at a global scale
- To the Point: Machine learning predicts fire risk in Africa, protein models explore methylmercury formation
- Carbon Cycle: Balancing Carbon: ORNL sets its sights on a global challenge, All-in-one carbon conversion, Making the most of captured carbon
- Focus on Neutrons: Discovery points the way to more practical superconductors, New synthetic polymers rival their protein counterparts
- Focus on Computing: Record-breaking supercomputer simulations aid COVID-19 research, Quantum technologies go the distance
- Focus on Fusion: New device will test materials for fusion reactors
- Focus on Nuclear: Nuclear consortium leaves industry with advanced simulation tool, Remote-controlled system can repair radioactive canisters
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Curved crystals are promising for quantum devices, New material phase may boost ultrathin electronics, New detector sees the origins of elements
- Focus on Hydropower: Fake fish test real impacts of hydropower
- Focus on Biology: New tool offers a better picture of plants
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The origins of fusion energy research at ORNL
Vol. 53, No. 2, (Spring 2020)
- Editorial: ORNL is a laboratory of leaders
- Fighting COVID-19: ORNL is in the fight against COVID-19
- To the point: To the Point: Tokamak assembly to begin at ITER, a view of polymers at the oil–water interface, smart traffic lights can save truck fuel
- R&D Leadership: Scientific leadership begins with people, Highly cited research inspires insight and collaboration, ORNL researchers shine in professional societies
- Operations and Mission Support: Experts enable ORNL to keep going strong, New workshops let participants face uncomfortable truths
- Infographic: ORNL by the numbers
- Community Engagement and Leadership: Staff members bring ORNL to the community
- Promoting the Next Generation: Polymer physics pioneer pushes women in STEM, People with purpose power ORNL, Oppenheimer program shapes ORNL leaders
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: John Martinis
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Weinberg's legacy of leadership
Vol. 53, No. 1, (Winter 2020)
- Editorial: Neutron scattering for a better world
- To the Point: US ITER gets new director, ORNL fuel tech can make ethanol competitive, ORNL home to nine highly cited researchers
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutrons open a world of research, What makes neutron scattering unique, SNS upgrades will benefit researchers
- Focus on Computing: Farewell, Titan: A long-running supercomputer with tremendous impact, Igniting a new class of combustion research
- Infographic: Neutron scattering at ORNL
- Focus on Biofuels: Getting to the root of better plants
- Focus on Transportation: ORNL engine research supports new fuel development
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Bio-inspired material soaks up oceans’ uranium, Right electrolyte doubles 2D material’s ability to store energy
- Early Career Award Winners: The future is bright: Nine ORNL researchers take home prestigious early career awards
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The church that’s not supposed to be there
Vol. 23, No. 4, ( 1990)
Disorder in Crystal Surfaces- ORNL and Antarctica
- Reducing Friction To Save Energy
- Differing Structures of Amorphous Solids
- The Verdict on Acid Rain
- ORNL's Contributions to NAPAP
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—Successful first Saturday Academy for Computing and Mathematics; photograph of Oak Ridge teacher in national magazine
- R&D Updates—ORNL waste site surveyed by mobile robot; ORNL materials aboard Ulysses space probe; ORNL procedure adopted by EPA
- Technical Highlights—Part of gene making fruit fly resistant to insecticides cloned; subtle DNA changes and trace levels of organics detected by two ORNL mass spectrometer systems; rat lung tumors targeted by ORNL's monoclonal antibodies; new theory on tokamak operations
- Technology Transfer—Optics MODIL organized; iron aluminide technology licensed to two firms
Vol. 23, No. 3, ( 1990)
ORNL's Future Missions- 2 Editorial—ORNL can help synthesize new materials, as called for by a recent National Research Council report.
- Robotics for Nuclear Reactors and Hazardous Environments
- Examining Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Chemicals
- Mechanisms of Radon Transport
- ORNL's Future Missions
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- Educational Activities—Science and Technology Alliance; memorandums of understanding
- User Facilities—Bioprocessing Research Facility examined
- R&D Updates—New findings on attic insulation and heat loss; ORNL contributions to shaping National Energy Strategy many and varied; computation speed record attained; U.S . civil defense's ability to meet threat of nuclear winter studied; ORNL tritium sales ended; support for Operation Desert Shield
- Technical Highlights—5 R&D 100 Awards for ORNL; new concept for producing very pure therapeutic drugs continuously
- Technology Transfer—Radiation detector for groundwater licensed; new R&D agreements allowed
Vol. 23, No. 2, ( 1990)
Visualizing Scientific Data- State of the Laboratory—1989
- Scientific Visualization: New Insights by Computer
- Improving Detection of Airport Explosives
- Microwave Processing of Radioactive Waste
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- User Facilities: The expanding Roof Research Center
- Educational Activities: Role models at ORNL for future women scientists; helping public-school science and math teachers
- Technical Highlights: Solar-powered infrared-emitting microchip being developed and tested; microbes aided by vegetation in decontaminating waste sites; revealing results of a carbon dioxide simulation model
- R&D Updates: World's longest dinosaur imaged by ORNL technique; SSC detector pre-proposal developed at ORNL; the HFIR restored to full-power operation
- Technology Transfer: Electrical solvent extraction technology, precision etching technology, and a radionuclide generator for diagnosing heart disease licensed
Vol. 23, No. 1, ( 1990)
Organ Images- Eureka! A Look at Inventing
- Iron Aluminides and the Inventor of the Year
- Human Behavior in Emergencies
- Environmental Protection in China
- Toward a One-Angstrom Electron Microscope
- ORNL's Impact on Radiation Protection Guidance
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—New initiatives pushed by President Bush, Secretary of Energy Watkins, Energy Systems, and state of Tennessee
- R&D Updates—New parallel computer at ORNL; Oak Ridge Detector Center established; effects of solar storms on U.S. electric power systems being studied
- Technical Highlights—New concept for increasing optical data storage; important human repair gene cloned; ORNL support for French fusion device; waste-managing microbes
- Technology Transfer—ORNL to collaborate with SEMATECH; computer security technology licensed
Vol. 19, No. 4, ( 1986)
- Sizing Up Contaminated Properties: A Saga of ORNL's Western Pioneers. Employees at ORNL's new office in Grand Junction, Colorado, have surveyed hundreds of radon-emitting properties for DOE's Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project. The office also is responsible for several innovations that are expected to save the project millions of dollars.
- Genetic Risks of Using Ethylene Oxide. New ORNL studies on the mutagenicity of ethylene oxide in mice suggest that regulations may be needed to limit brief exposures to the gas, which is widely used by health care workers to sterilize medical supplies.
- Human Gene Therapy: A Look at a Cutting Edge of Biomedical Science. Gene therapy—implanting appropriate genes in cells to correct genetic disorders—is being considered for widespread use in humans with inherited diseases. The author, who is a member of a national committee that considers the technical, ethical, and social implications of this biomedical technology, discusses the technical merits and problems of human gene therapy and current recommendations on its future use.
- Survey Sampling: A Useful Tool for Scientific Investigation. Scientists at ORNL have used statistics and survey sampling to ensure accuracy in their research results. Examples include determining the proportion of transuranic wastes in waste mixtures and estimating the size of fish populations at various sites. The author presents a primer on conducting a survey.
- Nuclear Sleuthing at ORNL: A New Look at Neutron Activation Analysis. Scientists at ORNL have helped develop neutron-activation analysis, which has been used for 50 years to identify and quantify elements, such as uranium, in materials. They will advance the science at the expanded NAA facility at the High Flux Isotope Reactor.
- ORNL's Forays into Forensic Activation Analysis. In the 1960s ORNL activation-analysis experts helped evaluate the evidence from the Kennedy assassination and two highly publicized murder trials.
- News Notes. ORNL's involvement in CERN physics experiment; plans for ACTO, a nuclear-plant advanced controls facility; another Large Coil Test Program milestone.
- Technical Capsules. ORNL's three IR 100 award-winning projects; new method of detecting wear in motor-operated valves; designing a reactor for space.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments