Homeowners, utilities and the environment could be winners with a home energy management system, or HEMS, developed by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Electric utilities seeking to enhance worker safety and system reliability by using drones to inspect their transmission systems can look to a new report by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers to help guide their efforts.
![Kevin Kerr of ORNL’s Information Technology Services Division was one of the speakers at last year’s conference. Kevin Kerr of ORNL’s Information Technology Services Division was one of the speakers at last year’s conference.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/06%20cyber%20tip.jpg?itok=NvQU4CfI)
Three of eight cyber technologies to be showcased at the 12th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference April 4-6 were developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which will host the event.
![Water is seen as small red and white molecules on large nanodiamond spheres. The colored tRNA can be seen on the nanodiamond surface. Image by Michael Mattheson, OLCF, ORNL Water is seen as small red and white molecules on large nanodiamond spheres. The colored tRNA can be seen on the nanodiamond surface. Image by Michael Mattheson, OLCF, ORNL](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/new_nanodiamond_0001.png?itok=xf_EGVvD)
It’s not enough to design new drugs. For drugs to be effective, they have to be delivered safely and intact to affected areas of the body. And drug delivery, much like drug design, is an immensely complex task.
![A visualization using Finite Time Lyapunov Exponents (FTLE) of the bulk velocity field derived from particles in an XGC1 fusion simulation. The bulk velocity field was computed and visualized in situ using the ADIOS staging transport method. A visualization using Finite Time Lyapunov Exponents (FTLE) of the bulk velocity field derived from particles in an XGC1 fusion simulation. The bulk velocity field was computed and visualized in situ using the ADIOS staging transport method.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/FTLE_horizontal_hr.png?itok=gnA4sdAE)
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced the latest release of its Adaptable I/O System (ADIOS), a middleware that speeds up scientific simulations on parallel computing resources such as the laboratory’s Titan supercomputer b
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Open Port Sampling Interfaces for Mass Spectrometry, invented by Gary Van Berkel (left) and Vilmos Kertesz, features simplicity and elegance. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Open Port Sampling Interfaces for Mass Spectrometry, invented by Gary Van Berkel (left) and Vilmos Kertesz, features simplicity and elegance.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/01%202017-P00046_0.jpg?itok=fGfxrW6n)
Four technologies developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have earned Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for excellence in technology transfer.
The FLC is a network of more than 300 federal laboratories, facilities and rese
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Simply widening sidewalks and increasing the bike lanes network can boost the number of New York City commuters who choose to take advantage of an option that’s healthy for people and the environment, according to Husain Aziz of Oak Ridge National Labor
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Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles—such as those made from iron and platinum atoms—are promising materials for next-generation recording and storage devices like hard drives.
![The team transmitted the ORNL logo, an oak leaf, between two end points in the laboratory with 87 percent calculated fidelity. (Left): The original 4-color, 3.4kB image. (Right): The image received using superdense coding. The team transmitted the ORNL logo, an oak leaf, between two end points in the laboratory with 87 percent calculated fidelity. (Left): The original 4-color, 3.4kB image. (Right): The image received using superdense coding.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/williams_SDcoding2016-1%5B4%5D%201.png?itok=1zQS6HNO)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have set a new record in the transfer of information via superdense coding, a process by which the properties of particles like photons, protons and electrons are used to store as much
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Snow falls in winter and melts in spring, but what drives the phase change in between?