ORNL Review Archive

Editorial
The wartime lab
- The top-secret laboratory
- Wigner's influence at ORNL
- Enrico Fermi and the Chicago Pile
- ORNL and the University of Chicago
- Making the most of neutrons
- Radiation and you
- A nuclear lab in peacetime
- Weinberg saves ORNL
- Oak Ridge spreads the nuclear knowledge
- A successful project never gets off the ground
- A swimming pool reactor in Geneva
- The house the Russells built
- New challenges
- Where no one has gone before
- Plugged into battery safety
- Zachary Taylor's deadly snack
- Pioneering mass spectrometry
- Beads on a string: Discovering the nucleosome
- ORNL in the 21st century and beyond
- The growth of computing at ORNL
- ORNL hosts VIP visitors
- Materials for nuclear environments
- Neutrons and quantum materials
- UT-ORNL partnerships benefit students
- Skilled tradespeople keep ORNL running
- Microscopy and computing for futuristic materials
- Materials for the world
- Billion-dollar impacts from ORNL innovations

- Editorial: Leading a tech revolution
- To the Point: Analyses of creek algae help predict methylmercury, graphene method may boost 2D materials, ORNL's go-to expert in the vehicle tech market
- Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionize science, AI: An experimentalist's experience, scaling deep learning for science, why Summit is suited for artificial intelligence, AI challenges for the Summit supercomputer (infographic)
- Focus on Smart Homes: Neighborhood gets smart about energy use with ORNL tech
- Focus on Smart Cities: City of Oak Ridge partners on advanced urban planning tool
- Infographic: Solving big problems with artificial intelligence
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Better catalysts boost yields, decrease costs
- Focus on Hydropower: Hydropower's future is small & modular
- Focus on Computing: Cell's 'vacuum cleaners' modeled atom by atom, critical neurotransmitter modeled on Titan
- Focus on Materials: ORNL-developed alloy promises better fuel economy, custom-designed alloy enhances nuclear safety
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutrons search for clues to combat bacterial threats, neutrons probe ecofriendly enzyme
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: ORNL dips a toe into artificial intelligence

- Editorial: Solving the country’s biggest problems
- To the Point: Former ORNL acting director dies, lab wins nine R&D 100 Awards, Cassini crashes into Saturn, five become AAAS fellows
- ORNL Advances Additive Manufacturing: Moving into the future with 3D printing, printing better materials, controlling the quality of printed parts, biomaterials for additive manufacturing
- Focus on Bioenergy: Accelerating biofuels development: A conversation with ORNL’s Jerry Tuskan
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutrons improve underwater welds, neutron tool captures catalysis in the act
- Focus on Earth Sciences: Peatlands hold carbon even in warming environment
- Infographic: What will happen to peatlands as they warm?
- Focus on Neutrinos: World’s smallest neutrino detector confirms prediction from Standard Model
- Focus on Computing: Predicting flood wave behavior with 3D models, assembling life’s molecular motor
- Early Career Award Winners: How are elements made? A conversation with physicist Kelly Chipps, replicating the sun: A conversation with fusion scientist David Green, understanding atomic structure and function: A conversation with condensed matter physicist Zac Ward, understanding how organisms work together: A conversation with biologist David Weston
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: William D. Phillips, Martin Karplus
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The workers behind the science

Brave New Nanoworld
- Editorial: Science of Tiny Features Faces Big Future
- Brave New Nanoworld
- Materials Advance May Help the Semiconductor Industry
- Imitating Nature: Nanopowders for Ceramics
- Caged Atoms for Flat-Panel Displays
- Nanosensor Probes Single Living Cells
- ORNL Wins Eight R&D 100 Awards
- Capturing a Role in Carbon Storage Studies
- Earth's Vegetation and Soils: Natural Scrubber for Carbon Emissions?
- Amazing Microbes
- Nuclear Winners


Measurement Technologies
- Measures of a Successful National Laboratory
- ORNL and the Smart Sensor Revolution
- High-Tech for Health
- Reducing the Threat of War and Terrorism
- Incredible Shrinking Labs: Chipping Away at Analytical Costs
- Cars, Clothes, and Computers: Help for Industry
- Of Mice, Monitors, and Medicine
- Hardware for Hardwoods: Monitoring Effects of Global Change on Forests
- New Measurements Using Neutrons: Benefits of the SNS
- Bytes Help Take the Bite out of Crime
- Contact Information

Molecular Marriages for Improved Chemical Separations
- Molecular Marriages for Improved Chemical Separations
- Chasing Electrons in Gases and Liquids
- Diamond Films Are (Almost) Forever
- Energy Strategies for a Greenhouse Future
- Sensors for Health and Safety
- New Light on Measuring Temperatures
- Awards and Appointments
- Pick a Number
- Educational Activities Waste minimization problem solved by college students
- R&D Updates—Media attention given to ORNL's search for arsenic in Zachary Taylor's remains
- Technical Highlights—Three ORNL R&D 100 Award winners; new technology to evaluate chemical-protection suits; digital recorder made portable by new chip; nonfusion applications for ORNL's pellet propulsion technology; ecological effects of 1988 fire on Yellowstone National Park studied by ORNL researchers
- Technology Transfer—Eleven CRADAs signed in a year; how ORNL transferred advanced controls technology to the nuclear power industry; a successful consortium
- Index of Review Articles (1984-1991)

State of the Laboratory
- State of the Laboratory—1990
- Farewell to Herman Postma
- Single Crystals for Welding Research
- Science Alliance: A Vital ORNL-UT Partnership
- Profiles of ORNL-UT Distinguished Scientists
- The Partnership's Early Years
- ORNL-UT Interactions Outside the Science Alliance
- Awards and Appointments
- Pick a Number—Origin of weather prediction models
- User Facilities—Neutron-scattering users and students back at the HFIR
- R&D Updates—New Mathematical Sciences Building at ORNL; fresh lava deposit on ocean floor observed by ORNL divers; Center for Risk Management established
- Technical Highlights--Demonstration of in situ vitrification to seal up ORNL wastes; electricity from a spinach-platinum system; hollow atom mysteries probed
- Technology Transfer—Two CRADAs signed by state of Tennessee and Energy Systems; radiation monitoring and respirator software licensed

Hurdling the Barriers
- ORNL's High-Temperature Superconductivity Pilot Center
- Superconductivity Research Successes
- The Superconducting Motor
- Waste Site Remediation: Are We Doing It Right?
- "No Option Would Satisfy Everyone"
- Enzymes for Extracting Energy from Trash
- Awards and Appointments
- Pick a Number—New math columnist for the Review
- Educational Activities—ORNL participants in WATTec's Science in Action program
- R&D Updates—Gordon Bell Prize for scientific computing to ORNL; A-E firm for ANS chosen; the HPRR closed; global change data book published; changes in ORNL's work for the SSC
- Technical Highlights—Female-specific mutagens discovered at ORNL; viewing DNA features with near-atomic resolution using X-ray analysis and crystals made of chicken blood
- Technology Transfer—SERS continuous monitoring technology licensed to GAMMA-METRICS; ORNL involved in first DOE CRADA; new class patent waiver in DOE-Energy Systems contract

- Magnetic Fusion Progress: A History and Review
- Introducing Methanol-Fueled Vehicles
- Ultrasonic Diffraction Tomography for Imaging Tumors
- Take a Number
- Technical Capsules. EPA adopts ORNL test to determine hazardous-waste toxicity; ORNL computer model demonstrates learning; antibody-laser technique may detect toxic chemicals; five Oak Ridge developments win 1987 IR 100 awards.
- News Notes. Restart plans for HFIR, other reactors; Numerical Linear Algebra Year observed; 11th Distinguished Scientist named; ORNL researchers facilitate cleanup at TMI; compression of ORNL waste demonstrated; stimulating transfer of ORNL technologies.
- Books. The Dragon's Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project is reviewed.
- Awards and Appointments