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ORNL researchers go for a big impact
In praise of the power grid
Grad students create biotech company, continue research project

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Electricity powers our work and our lives, keeps us warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and drives the economy. The distribution of electric power around the world—electrification, as it’s called—is so important, it was named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the Nat...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy gives researchers an opportunity to pursue projects that have the potential to change the way we generate, store and use energy.

Established by 2007’s America COMPETES Act, the agency has invested in more than 400 projects across more than 20 pro...

A class project to explore the commercial potential of an ORNL-developed technology has evolved into a full licensing agreement for two students at the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education.

Beth Papanek and Patrick Caveney formed biotechnology startup Nano Element...

For all the power and complexity of today’s computers, they can still be boiled down to the binary basics—using a code of 1’s and 0’s to calculate and store information. Since the 1980s, though, some computer scientists have strayed from this simple language. They suggest that computers could speak ...

Rose Boll had just stepped out of a long staff meeting at ORNL when she got an unexpected call. Expecting a sales pitch, she heard instead the story of a patient in Germany who had recently been treated with a medical isotope produced by Boll and a team of ORNL researchers and technicians.

The tr...

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...