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ORNL early-career award-winner Travis Humble promotes quantum computing at the lab.
"I chose a career in science for my innate curiosity for something much bigger than myself."
ORNL prepares young researchers to lead ORNL’s Olga Ovchinnikova saw an opportunity early this year during a one-on-one meeting with Thomas Zacharia. Zacharia, the lab’s deputy for science and technology, makes a point of sitting down with young scientists. Ovchinnikova, a chemical physicist i...
Although the neutron is a senior citizen of sorts, whose existence was predicted in 1920 and confirmed in 1932, it’s still not fully understood.
It was James Chadwick of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory who, after nearly a decade of experimentation, devised a method to detect these particles, whi...
Refrigerators using the magnetocaloric effect will be both greener and more energy efficient than conventional appliances.
The search for materials that can withstand the extreme environment inside advanced fusion research facilities and fusion power reactors is becoming more intense.
A focal point for this search is ORNL’s Material Plasma Exposure Experiment. At the heart of the experiment is a device that ena...