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The discovery of element 117—tennessine, as it has been provisionally named—was made possible by a collaboration of researchers in the United States and Russia. ORNL provided the radioisotope berkelium-249, which was bombarded with a beam of calcium-48 at Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Researc...

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ORNL mathematician Clayton Webster picked up an Early Career Research Program award from DOE’s Office of Science this year. His job is to find the important information in mountains of data.

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Kyle Sander is a grad student in ORNL's Biosciences Division.

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ORNL quantitative geneticist Wellington Muchero is working to help arctic plants capture carbon for long-term storage and conversion into renewable bioproducts. He is also one of four ORNL recipients in 2016 of an Early Career Research Program award from DOE’s Office of Science.

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Recycling is nothing new; microbes have been doing it for a long, long time. ORNL’s Melanie Mayes is exploring how.

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ORNL is proud of its role in fostering the next generation of scientists and engineers. We bring in talented young researchers, team them with accomplished scientists and engineers, and put them to work at the lab's one-of-a-kind facilities. The result is research that makes us proud and prepar...