ORNL Review Archive

Science and Security
- Editorial: Science and security
- To the Point: ORNL welcomes new lab director and deputy for science, bacteria breaks down methylmercury, and neutrons and an elusive quantum state
- National Security at ORNL: The science behind national security, new marching orders: Fast-attack submarine officer and F-35 test pilots among those with one-year assignments at lab, eye of the beholder: Identity science comes of age, have you seen these genes?
- Focus on Computing: Titan digs deep with 3-D map of Earth's interior, virtual laser lab simulations create new insight
- Infographic: The promise of exascale computing
- Focus on Nuclear: Nuclear startup aided by high-performance computing
- Focus on Cybersecurity: Guarding the grid: Exploring methods to protect critical infrastructure
- Focus on Neutrons: Start your engines: Neutrons get a look inside a running engine, neutrons zero in on elusive magnetic Majorana fermion
- Focus on Biology: Neutrons provide the first nanoscale look at a living cell membrane
- Focus on Physical Sciences: More efficient turbine engines trace roots back a quarter century, small nanoparticles have surprisingly big effects on polymer nanocomposites
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Thomas Friedman
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time War: ORNL, Rickover and the nuclear Navy

Fundamental science at ORNL
- Editorial: ORNL is fundamentally strong
- To the Point: ‘Mouse House’ inspires breakthrough research, automation aids space fuel production, and nickel-78 is ‘doubly magic’
- Fundamental Science at ORNL: Fundamentally strong: ORNL dives into basic science ... Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility: Tackling big questions with computation ... Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences: Small worlds, big discoveries ... ORNL’s Neutron Science User Facilities: Neutrons unlock the mysteries of materials
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutrons and quantum spin liquids: Exploring the next materials revolution
- Focus on Neutrinos: Lab in a gold mine looks at matter– antimatter imbalance
- Infographic: Why is there matter?
- Focus on Data: Cancer research accelerates via deep learning
- Focus on Nuclear: ALICE experiment re-creates the universe’s first split second ... Superior supercomputer parallelism for subatomic particle research
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Quantum materials promise exciting technologies for energy and electronics
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian
- Researcher Spotlight: Batteries and fertilizer: A conversation with ORNL chemist Gabriel Veith
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Liane Russell, pioneer of fetal rad safety

Big opportunities at the nanoscale
- Editorial: Big opportunities at the nanoscale
- To the Point: Spallation Neutron Source turns 10, tennessine joins the periodic table, and a happy accident advances ethanol production
- Tiny Scale, Giant Accomplishments: Exploring the 2-D nanomaterials frontier ... high-impact MIT research comes to ORNL ... Oak Ridge company to produce graphene in mass ... skilled researchers using advanced microscopes
- Focus on Computing: ORNL system unites imaging and computing in search for new materials ... team uses Titan to improve fission modeling
- Infographic: New technologies to make your home more efficient
- Focus on Imaging: Seeing through concrete
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutrino experiments explore the unknown with ORNL expertise, equipment
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Scientists find a cheaper way to extract uranium from seawater ... Speedy ion conduction in solid electrolytes clears road for advanced
- energy devices
- Focus on Nuclear: Indispensable nuclear modeling software gets a makeover
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Brad Filippone ... Charles Holliday
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Weinberg takes a flier on computing at ORNL

Science in Sync
- Editorial: Transformational potential
- Features: Multi-faceted forecasting ... 3D printing rises to the occasion ... Tag-team R&D ... Hunting for hydrogen ... Diversify, replace, recycle ... Potent partnerships ... Better biofuels
- A Closer View: Ben Preston
- Research Horizons: ORNL research reveals new challenges for mercury cleanup ... ORNL finding goes beyond surface of oxide films ... New algorithm enables unprecedented sampling, modeling of Arctic

Disruptive Materials
- Editorial: Driving innovation in the 21st Century
- Features: Disruptive materials ... Nanotech toolbox ... Materials for measuring the universe ... Growing graphene ... Heavy-metal fishing ... Rethinking nuclear fuel design ... Blood, sweat and serendipity ... Something new under the sun
- A Close View: Kinga Unocic
- Research Horizons: ‘Zoomable’ map of poplar proteins offers new view of bioenergy crop ... ORNL scientists solve mercury mystery ... Mobility and risk


Imaging Surfaces
- Reinventing Ceramic Production
- ORNL's Magic Bullets: On Target for Health
- Tumor-Fighting Genes and Chemical Health Risks
- Strategies for Radwaste Management
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number: On letting computers make decisions
- User Facilities: Building Envelope Research Center
- Educational Activities: "Adventures in Supercomputing" for students; educational networks
- R&D Updates
- Technical Highlights
- Technology Transfer

High-Temperature Ceramics
- Scurfy Mice: A Model for Autoimmune Disease
- The Fate of Nutrients in Streams
- New Uses for ORNL's Ultrasensitive Mass Spectrometer
- Regulation of Carcinogens: The Problem and a Solution
- Intelligent Robots! Do We Need Them and Can They Be Built?
- Awards and Appointments
- Pick a Number: Modeling subsurface processes
- User Facilities: 100,000 hours of Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator operation
- Educational Activities: ORNL researchers meet youngsters at the Environmental Fair
- R&D Updates
- Technical Highlights
- Technology Transfer

Reactor Technology at ORNL
- EDITORIAL: A Resurgence of Nuclear Energy?
- Reactors Are Central to ORNL's Missions
- The Research Reactor Dilemma
- The HFIR: Lessons Learned
- ORNL's Research Reactors
- New Insights on Reactor Vessel Embrittlement
- The Oak Ridge Research Reactor: A Requiem
- Isotope Materials for Research
- Nuclear Healing
- Neutron Scattering at Research Reactors
- The Advanced Neutron Source: An Update
- ORNL and the Modular HTGR
- PIUS-BWR: Concept for a Passively Safe Reactor
- Advanced Controls for Nuclear Facilities
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- User Facilities: The High Temperature Materials Laboratory
- Educational Activities. Molding tomorrow's scientists
- R&D Updates: STM images of DNA obtained here; clean-air issues evaluated; space studies under way; ORNL selected as site for Gammasphere
- Technical Highlights: Three R&D 100 Awards for ORNL in 1989; NIH grant for ORNL's transgenic mouse program
- Technology Transfer: ORNL ceramic technology licensed to Coors Ceramics Company; motor diagnostic technology licensed to private firms

Life Sciences at ORNL
Editorial
Biology Research
Genetics
- Genetics Research in the Biology Division
- Chromosome Alterations and Cancer
- Targets for Mutagenesis
- Mouse Models of Human Genetic Disorders
- Mouse Genome Characterization
- Pursuing Biology's Holy Grail
- Radiation-Induced Cancers
- Extrapolating Cancer Risk
- In Vitro-In Vivo Models for Cancer Studies. New model systems aid understanding of cancer mechanisms
- Probing Mechanisms for Cancer Suppression. An ORNL technique improves understanding of factors that block tumor growth
- Protein Engineering
- Altering Human Epidermal Growth Factor
- DNA Repair—A Recipe for Survival. Research is zeroing in on the cell's mechanisms for self-repair
- Can the CO2 Fixation Enzyme Be Improved?