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Vol. 52, No. 3, (Summer 2019)
- Editorial: The grand grid challenge
- To the Point: Genetics pioneer Liane Russell dies, researchers look for ways to repurpose soft drinks, quantum security gets practical, designed polymers for better batteries
- The Power Grid: Defending the grid: Solutions for power system vigilance and resilience, Real communities test ORNL microgrid controller, DarkNet: Lighting up a secure grid communication network, Gig City grid: A conversation with EPB’s Jim Ingraham
- Focus on Microscopy: Microscopy technique offers an up-close view of proteins
- Infographic: ORNL on the grid
- Focus on Neutrons: Low-temp catalysis promises huge energy savings, Study of exotic ice questions water theory
- Focus on Physics: The human element, Expanding the periodic table
- Focus on Computing: Solving a beta decay puzzle, Summit expedites analysis of genetic disease origins, Supercomputing for long-lasting batteries
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: K. Barry Sharpless
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Fifty years after Apollo 11, ORNL ‘moon scoop’ remains a source of family pride
Vol. 52, No. 2, (Spring 2019)
- Editorial: Making the most of quantum science
- To the Point: New supercomputer announced, AI matches patients with clinical trials, company licenses tech that turns CO2 into ethanol, ORNL researchers elected to fellowships
- Quantum Science: Quantum of science, Quantum computing is ideal for quantum problems, New materials for sensors, computers, encryption and more, Cooking up quantum materials
- Focus on Computing: Company pursues unique engine design with supercomputing, ORNL team uses supercomputing to fight addiction
- Infographic: Using a quantum computer
- Focus on Neutrons: UT–ORNL team measures accelerator beam in six dimensions, ‘Chemical sponge’ removes toxic gases from our air, Antibacterial nanoparticles on a mission to save your teeth
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Chemists improve carbon dioxide capture, Self-sensing materials can monitor their own well-being
- Focus on Power: Seeing double: Digital twin for a secure, resilient grid
- Focus on Biology: Tree of life: Poplar studies yield human cancer insights
- Focus on Buildings: 3D printing shapes building industry
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Richard Roberts
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: When Oak Ridge was gated, but muddy
Vol. 52, No. 1, (Winter 2019)
- Editorial: The amazing impact of ORNL isotopes
- To the Point: Three from ORNL become APS fellows, wireless vehicle charger rivals wired systems, accelerator beam measured in 6D, ORNL geospatial data aids disaster relief
- Isotopes: Isotopes to the rescue, How do you want your isotope? ORNL on the red planet, Radiation, meet cancer cell, Made in the USA: Key isotopes for medical diagnostic imaging
- Focus on Computing: Titan advances cancer therapy, the first atomic nucleus on a quantum computer
- The Art of Science: The Art of Science
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Researchers take temperatures at the nanoscale
- Focus on Power: Power to the people: Solutions for a better Puerto Rico grid
- Focus on Buildings: Vacuum insulation panels open the door to self-healing buildings
- Focus on Climate: Investigating arctic ecosystems: A conversation with Stan Wullschleger
- Focus on ITER: ITER’s ‘burning plasma’: One giant step toward fusion energy
- Early Career Award Winners: Unveiling quantum materials with neutrons: A conversation with scientist Huibo Cao, flash of light: A conversation with spectroscopist Ben Doughty
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Michael Berry
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: We won the war. What's next?
Vol. 47, No. 2, (Fall 2014)
Capitalizing on a new research model- Editorial: Institutes provide a new avenue for research collaborations
- Features: Capitalizing on a new research model ... Climate Change Science Institute breaks research barriers to build options for a changing world ... Imaging institute examines materials atom by atom ... ORNL institute will transform Big Data into sustainable solutions for urban living ... Understanding big data: New partnerships support health care innovation ... Going off grid: Integrated energy systems research rethinks reliance on traditional electric grid ... Sharing scientific vision: The Joint Institutes
- Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series: Craig Barrett ... Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- Research Horizons: ORNL study reveals new characteristics of complex oxide surfaces ... ORNL, UTGSM study compares structures of Huntington’s disease protein ... Data gathered with high-energy X-ray telescope support the SASI model—a decade later
Vol. 47, No. 1, (Winter 2014)
Neutrons and Bioscience- Editorial: Neutrons and bioscience
- Features: Advancing the science of materials ... A broad approach to green tech ... Building better biofuels ... All eyes on the Arctic ... Biological boundaries ... Tailoring the poplar genome to biofuel production ... Seeking sustainability ... The Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series in Science, Technology, and Policy
- A Closer Look: Daniel Close
- Research Horizons: Solar surprise ... 3D printing yields advantages for US ITER engineers ... Novel ORNL technique enables air-stable water droplet networks
Vol. 21, No. 4, ( 1988)
Waste Management and Remedial Action- A New Way of Doing Business: An Interview with Tom Row
- The DOE Model
- The Energy Systems Approach
- Improving Waste Management Operations
- Waste Management Technology Center
- The Hazardous Waste Technology Program
- PCB-Eating Microbes
- Radioactive Waste Management R&D
- Grouts Solve Disposal Problems
- ORNL's New Environmental Projects
- Remedial Actions for ORNL's Environment
- QA in Waste Management
- Loss of Coolant: ORNL's Role in a Key Reactor Safety Experiment
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. ORNL researcher's book discusses the economics of recycling plastic waste
- R&D Updates. Roof Research Center dedicated; leaking Georgia cesium capsules probed
- Take a Number
- Technical Highlights. Two 1988 R&D 100 Awards for Oak Ridge; new ORELA positron source operating
- Technology Transfer. Triple-effect absorption chiller and diagnostic device licensed
Vol. 21, No. 3, ( 1988)
Supercomputers in Scientific Research- Supercomputers in Scientific Research
- Energy for Development: ORNL Returns to the Third World
- Designer Steels for Advanced Energy Applications
- New DNA Stain Aids Cell Studies
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. Chaos, by James Gleick, reviewed by Woody Gove
- R&D Updates. Alvin Trivelpiece: ORNL's new director; two HHIRF devices operating; tritium pellet injector for fusion demonstrated; DOE Superconductivity Pilot Center located at ORNL
- Technical Highlights. Hood River Conservation Project an energy-saving success; decline in tree growth linked to aluminum "freed" from soil by acid rain
- Technology Transfer. Valley-Todeco licensed to make aircraft fasteners from ORNL alloy; metallamics to manufacture nickel aluminide products
Vol. 21, No. 2, ( 1988)
State of the Laboratory- State of the Laboratory: "Gee Whiz". Ceramics strengthened by microwaves, superconducting films, a computer program featuring a "bug" that learns, a microbe that destroys PCBs in soil, a laser having a tuning range 2000 times greater than its commercial counterpart, an energy-efficient liquid separation system, and chemically produced whiskers that strengthen ceramics are "gee whiz" achievements in 1987. In his final State of the Laboratory address as ORNL director, Herman Postma challenges the staff to set new directions and learn from past mistakes.
- Susan Whatley: From Fast Track to Slow Boat. Impelled by economic necessity and an enthusiasm for learning, Susan Whatley rose from secretary to engineer to manager to professional society president in a short time. Now retired, she and her husband are sailing around the world. Accompanying articles tell about ORNL's mentoring program and progress in affirmative action.
- Imaging the World's Longest Dinosaur. An ORNL acoustic technique for imaging underground features has determined the precise positions of buried bones of the longest dinosaur ever discovered and should help guide and hasten the excavation of this Seismosaurus.
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- Books. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is reviewed. Recent books authored or edited by ORNL staff members are listed.
- Technical Highlights. HFIR shutdown stops production of californium-252. A robot-like manipulator for NASA is being built at ORNL.
- R&D Updates. The HTML wins an award from Research & Development. Tumulus disposal of low-level wastes has been demonstrated.
- Technology Transfer. An ORNL surveying system has been licensed to Chemrad Corporation. 1987 patentees from ORNL are listed.
Vol. 21, No. 1, ( 1988)
Transferring ORNL Technology- Toward a "Technological Commons"
- A New Licensing Approach
- Industrial R&D Consortia
- Local ORNL Spin-off Companies
- Designing Chips by Computer. ORNL is custom designing microchips for specific uses, such as tracking the migration of killer bees, due in the United States by next year.
- Images of the Heart. New developments from ORNL's Nuclear Medicine Group will improve diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases and aid in cancer detection.
- "We Have the Best People Around": Interview with Associate Director Robert Merriman. Bob Merriman discusses his new job, nuclear power, ORNL's environmental problems, robotics, SDI research, and AVLIS for uranium enrichment.
- Microwave Processing of Ceramics: An Interdisciplinary Approach. High-frequency microwaves may be used to strengthen large, already-formed ceramic parts having complex shapes.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer is reviewed.
- R&D Updates. Athens Automation and Control Experiment proves successful; impact statement completed on disposal of chemical weapons; the Advanced Toroidal Facility achieves its first plasma
- Technology Transfer. U.S. steelmaker acquires rights for use of ORNL alloy.
Vol. 20, No. 4, ( 1987)
- 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