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![Rigoberto Advincula](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/Advincula%20thumbnail.jpg?h=19eda40e&itok=Xs2VUECN)
ORNL researchers are deeply involved in applying the principles of a circular economy.
![Yarom Polsky](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/Polsky%20thumbnail.jpg?h=964c8cee&itok=CfrDSxL-)
The United States — and indeed the world — is in the midst of a water crisis.
![Parans Paranthaman](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/Parans%20thumbnail.jpg?h=a348d34e&itok=xqEDXZdl)
Taking advantage of the impending increase in demand for lithium will be particularly challenging for the United States, which currently produces very little of the critically important mineral.
![COVID-19 infographic](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/COVID_infographic%20thumb.jpg?h=c04cffd2&itok=Hh92eZHq)
A collaborative research team from ORNL and other national laboratories is using artificial intelligence and computational screening techniques — in combination with experimental validation — to identify and design drug therapies to target the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here are five promising approaches.
![Marti Head](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/Mari%20Head%20thumb.jpg?h=0cefab19&itok=4o6z99xT)
In early 2020, before the novel coronavirus had been named a pandemic, ORNL computational chemist Marti Head abruptly switched her focus — as did many scientists and researchers around the globe — to fight COVID-19.
![Early Careers](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/Ruisard%20copy_0.jpg?h=471d96ed&itok=f-rZ6VPr)
Five ORNL scientists have been tapped by DOE’s Office of Science to receive significant research funding as part of the Early Career Research Program.
![Matthew Beidler](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/Beidler%20thumb.jpg?h=c6edb48f&itok=FPGLVnFp)
Matthew Beidler, a physicist in the Fusion Energy Division, started on a research path at a very young age.