Extreme pressure can lead to chemical compounds not found on Earth under normal conditions. Nobel Prize winner Roald Hoffmann discusses how they can give us valuable information.
ORNL researchers are turning a physical oddity into cleaner, cheaper appliances.
The ingredients that make geothermal energy suitable for electricity production are simple: heat, permeability (usually fractured rock) and water. Until recently the trick has been finding all in the same place and in the right amounts.
Enormous heat energy is available between 3 and 10 kilometer...
Imagine a future in which your car no longer needs someone behind the wheel.
The time you devote to your daily commute—now often a waste—would be available for reading, working, watching videos or even napping. Physical disabilities would no longer keep you homebound. You could send your kids to ...
Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold delivered the Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture in Science, Technology, and Policy at ORNL on Nov. 2, 2015
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