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Vol. 55, No. 2, (Fall 2022)
- Editorial: National security for the 21st century
- To the Point: ORNL Director Zacharia announces retirement, proteins linked to cancer report looks to dams as untapped power sources, study shows that bacteria help peat beat the heat
- National Security: National security science tackles a new generation of threats, high-performance computing boosts uranium research, ORNL tools help ensure energy supply, strengthening cybersecurity in the energy sector, engineers and scientists support nonproliferation efforts
- Focus on Computing: Summit study tackles superconductivity, traffic-based building schedules make smart city even smarter
- Infographic: Securing our nation
- Focus on Neutrons: COVID-19 research moves to antiviral drug design, reducing stress: neutrons help GE improve 3D-printed parts
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Precision machining produces tiny, light-guiding cubes for advancing info tech, polymer gives 3D-printed sand super strength
- Focus on Biology: Microbes turn waste gases into valuable chemicals
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Oak Ridge's last 19th-century building
- Research Insights: Toward a Carbon Neutral Future, Part I: Novel research for shrinking the carbon footprint
Vol. 55, No. 2, (Spring 2022)
- Editorial: ORNL user facilities advance science and technology
- To the Point: Frontier is world’s fastest supercomputer, materials tested in space for radiation effects, perovskite study points to better solar batteries, lignin research points to cheaper biofuels
- ORNL User Facilities: User facilities: Essential support for the country’s researchers, getting down to basic: going big to study the very small, OLCF: serving up bleeding-edge compute power and expertise to the world’s scientists, national user facilities use applied science to accelerate industry growth
- Focus on Neutrons: The secret lives of corn plants caught ‘on camera,’ ORNL helps Nobel laureate improve battery cathodes
- Focus on Quantum: Key witness spills secrets of ‘spooky’ quantum entanglement, real-world demonstration leads to quantum networking milestone
- Focus on Biology: New biosensors shine a light on CRISPR gene editing
- Infographic: Predicting the planet's future
- Focus on Tech Transfer: Mothers (and fathers) of invention: Getting ORNL tech into the world
- Focus on Decarbonization: Decarbonization: Q&A with David Sholl
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Quick detection of uranium isotopes helps safeguard nuclear materials, upcycled: from common plastic to tough, recyclable adhesive, Tiny but mighty precipitates toughen a structural alloy
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Nurse Doris Scott bridged lab’s early race–health disparity
- Research Insights: Atoms for applications: quantum technologies of the future
Vol. 55, No. 1, (Winter 2022)
- Editorial: Pursuing a circular economy
- To the Point: Advance in modeling improves water analysis, ORNL teams take seven R&D 100 awards, new computer code focuses on power grid, nanostructures promote stretchier alloys
- Toward a circular economy: Keeping materials out of landfills, ensuring our water future, lithium recovery: a critical challenge for battery tech
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Welcome to Neutrino Alley: Q&A with ORNL’s Marcel Demarteau, compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities, automated chemistry sets new pace for materials discovery
- Focus on Neutrons: A simple salt: making batteries faster and safer, twist and flex: ‘hinged’ atoms improve solar power specs, after 20 years, physicists find a way to keep track of lost accelerator particles
- Focus on Isotopes: Labwide effort may accelerate cancer treatment approvals
- Focus on Manufacturing: Better Plants Program leads industry partners on sustainability journey
- Focus on Botany: Single gene makes for hardier crops
- Focus on COVID: DOE scientists deploy creativity, speed to disrupt COVID-19
- Infographic: Interrupting COVID-19
- Focus on ITER: First-of-a kind superconducting magnet modules delivered to ITER site
- DOE Early Career Award Winners: A tremendous achievement in a tumultuous year
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Ting
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have Oak Ridge roots
- Research Insights: Research articles from ORNL staff
Vol. 49, No. 3, (Fall 2016)
Empowering our next generation- Editorial: Empowering our next generation
- To the point: The consequences of vehicle automation, from childhood tinkerer to supercomputing expert, carbon releases in the Arctic, and more
- Early-Career Researchers at ORNL: Looking to the future of science ... When soils exhale ... Where there's a willow, there's a way ... Computing by the atom ... Better computing through math
- Focus on Manufacturing: Printed components benefit from manufacturing–computing collaboration
- Focus on Transportation: Plug-free wireless charging demonstrated at ORNL
- Infographic: Carbon Fiber Technology Facility
- Focus on Computing: Broadening the bilayer ... Biofuel researchers use Titan to probe ‘lignin shield’
- Focus on Physical Sciences: ORNL researchers invent a tougher plastic—and it’s 50 percent renewable too ... Halogen atom competition leads researchers toward better solar films
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutron ‘splashes’ reveal signature of exotic particles
- Focus on Nuclear: Charmed half-life: Target used to discover element 117 took a circuitous route to Russia
- Focus on Imaging: Building better geothermal models
- Focus on Buildings: ORNL refrigerator cools with magnetism, not Freon
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Alton Romig Jr.
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The short life of a neutron
Vol. 49, No. 2, (Fall 2016)
The past, present and future of clean energy R&D- Editorial: The past, present and future of clean energy R&D
- To the point: Partnering with business, unleashing solar power, personal achievements, and more
- ORNL and Clean Energy Research: ORNL and clean energy, In praise of the power grid, ORNL researchers go for a big impact, Grad students create biotech company
- Focus on Quantum Computing: Staying ahead of Moore’s law
- Focus on Critical Materials: Two birds, one stone
- Infographic: ORNL Clean Energy Collaborations: ORNL regional partnerships
- Focus on Medical Isotopes: Methods for medicine
- Focus on Nuclear: Researchers re-create reactor in virtual form, Materials research brings fusion power closer to reality
- Focus on Physical SciencesSolvents save steps in solar cell manufacturing
- Focus on ComputingModeling next-generation lasers for tumor removal, Simulating tumor cells, sickle cell anemia and drug delivery
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished LecturersRoald Hoffmann, Andrew Briggs
- Why Science? Young researchers tell us
- Time Warp: Oil crisis in ‘70s highlighted need for coherent energy policy
Vol. 49, No. 1, (Spring 2016)
ORNL science is helping the environment- Editorial: ORNL finds solutions to environmental problems
- To the Point: Giant biosimulations, “white 2 graphene,” a national park, and more
- ORNL Science Protects the Environment: Finding scientific solutions to environmental problems ... ORNL process isolates troublesome cesium ... Researchers use soybean oil to reduce uranium in groundwater
- Infographic: Vehicle Systems Integration Laboratory: Vehicle analysis without the vehicle
- Focus on Mercury: ORNL scientists solve the mystery of mercury
- Focus on Computing: Building bacteria’s photosynthetic engine ... Shining a light on subsurface flows
- Focus on Health: Cataloging drug candidates at the petascale
- Focus on HFIR: Beautiful refueling
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Frances H. Arnold ... C.N.R. Rao
- Why Science?: Young researchers tell us
- Time Warp: Molten Salt Reactor Experiment: Alvin Weinberg’s magnum opus
Vol. 34, No. 2, ( 2001)
Basic Research at ORNL- Editorial: Basic Research at ORNL
- ORNL’s Search for Rare Isotopes
- ORNL Theorists and the Nuclear Shell Model
- Beam Technologies Enable HRIBF Experiments
- Neutrons, “Stripes,” and Superconductivity
- ORNL’s Neutron Sources and Nuclear Astrophysics
- Modeling Magnetic Mate- rials for Electronic Devices
- In Quest of a Quark: ORNL’s Role in the PHENIX Particle Detector
- New Hope for the Blind from a Spinach Protein
- Human Susceptibility and Mouse Biology
- Modeling a Fusion Plasma Heating Process and Stellarator
- Neutron Sources and Nanoscale Science
- Quantum-Dot Arrays for Computation
- Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers: The Self-Assembly Challenge
- Incredible Shrinking Labs: Weighing a Move to the Nanoscale
- Basic Geochemical Research Supports Energy Industries
- Fermi Award Winner Opened New Fields in Atomic Physics
- Improving the Internet’s Quality of Service
- QOS for Wireless Communication
Vol. 34, No. 1, ( 2001)
New Biology: Covering All the Bases- Editorial: Unraveling Complex Biological Systems
- Systems Biology: New Views of Life
- Genes and Proteins: A Primer
- Complex Biological Systems in Mice
- Gene Chip Engineers
- Searching for Mouse Models of Human Disorders
- Mouse Models for the Human Disease of Chronic Hereditary Tyrosinemia
- Obesity-related Gene in Mouse Discovered at ORNL
- MicroCAT “Sees” Hidden Mouse Defects
- Curing Cancer in Mice
- Search for Signs of Inflammatory Disease
- Surprises in the Mouse Genome
- Protein Identification by Mass Spectrometry
- Rapid Genetic Disease Screening Possible Using Laser Mass Spectrometry
- Lab on a Chip Used for Protein Studies
- The Mouse House: From Old to New
- Human Genome Analyzed Using Supercomputer
- Protein Prediction Tool Has Good Prospects
- Microbe Probe: Studying Bacterial Genomes
- SNS and Biological Research
- Accessing Information on the Human Genome Project
- A Model Fish for Pollutant Studies
- Controlling Carbon in Hybrid Poplar Trees
- Disease Detectives
Vol. 18, No. 4, ( 1985)
- Parallel Computing at ORNL. Computer scientists are learning how to use new parallel processing machines to meet ORNL's research needs. New parallel algorithms for solving large systems of equations have been developed at ORNL.
- Protecting Human Health: The Chemical Challenge. Scientists at ORNL have developed several methods of detecting human responses to hazardous energy-related chemicals. They are using interferon as a bioeffects marker and are developing the "fluoroimmunosensor," which detects minute amounts of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in body fluids and tissues.
- The Technology Transfer Fund: A Status Report on the ORNL Projects. ORNL, DOE, and the Office of Technology Applications of Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., have committed funds to stimulate innovation and bring ORNL technologies to the stage where their commercial potential can be judged. The status of five technology-transfer projects is described.
- Pion Emission from Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions. A theorist said it couldn't be done, but nuclear physicists at ORNL's Holifield Heavy Ion Research Facility accelerator have detected the emission of pions, short-lived particles that serve as the "glue" in the nucleus, from low-energy nuclear reactions. Current theory is being revised to explain how pions can be produced at unexpectedly low energies.
- Managing Hazardous Waste: ORNL Examines the Options. ORNL is playing an important role in managing the nation's defense-chemical wastes and in devising better ways of dealing with its own hazardous materials.
- Books. Chancing It: Why We Take Risks is reviewed by W. S. Lyon.
- Take a Number
- Technical Capsules. Device to measure metal deformation wins IR 100 award; technology transfer and cell freezing.
- Lab Anecdote. The story of the radiation-danger symbol.
- News Notes. ORNL Director Herman Postma talks to President Reagan; Radio Frequency Test Facility completed; Associate Director Fred Mynatt testifies on advanced reactors for space; fusion magnet facility begins 6-coil tests; Athens power-distribution experiment under way; Life Sciences Complex plans told; Cummins Engine licensing breaks new ground.
- Awards and Appointments
Vol. 18, No. 3, ( 1985)
- Fractals: Realm of Monster Curves and Irregular Solids A solid-state physicist has turned to fractals to understand the strange electrical properties of the interface between an electrode and various electrolytes. He suggests that fractals—a mathematical concept that describes a large class of irregular natural objects—could be useful in other areas of ORNL research.
- Conservation as an Energy Resource: Electricity Savings from a Utility Program What are the energy and economic impacts of a utility program in the Pacific Northwest that offered homeowners incentives to reduce electricity use? An ORNL team has completed a study of the benefits and costs of such a program.
- SPECIAL SECTION: Biotechnology at ORNL
- A Question of Impurities: ORNL Examines a Persistent Fusion Problem Bob Clausing and others at ORNL have conducted studies to determine which cleaning techniques work best to remove the most obnoxious impurities from fusion vessel walls to prevent plasma energy losses.
- Transuranium-Element Production and Research For almost two decades ORNL's High Flux lsotope Reactor (HFIR) and Transuranium Processing Plant (TRU) have produced most of the transuranium elements used by researchers in the Western world. ORNL's Transuranium Research Laboratory, where research is carried out on the HFIR-TRU products, has become an international center for collaborative research. ORNL collaboration with the University of Tennessee has been particularly strong in inorganic chemistry and solid-state physics.
- Books. Freeman Dyson's Weapons and Hope is reviewed by Jack Barkenbus
- Take a Number
- News Notes. New parallel-processing computer at ORNL; uranium wastes solidified at Laboratory; ORNL agents tested in European patients; High-Temperature Materials Laboratory inaugurated; Technology Transfer briefs
- Awards and Appointments