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Enormous computing power and $1.2 million from the Department of Energy are expected to help researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University better understand and control fusion machines.Fusion energy, evident in the sun and stars, is the...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) co-leads a team that will receive $20 million in funding over the next five years from the Department of Energy to speed the development of computer models to predict climate change. The project, awarded jointly to ORNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory, will al...
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A Tennessee Small Business Advocacy Award has been presented to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for its support of small business in the Volunteer State.ORNL is one of 39 organizations statewide honored for the support of small business in their respective comm...
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Lynne Parker, a researcher at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's seventh annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium.Parker, a group leader in computational intelligence within ORNL's Computer...
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Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won two R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 109 since the awards began in 1963.The awards, announced today by ORNL Director Bill Madia, are presented annually by R&D Magaz...
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Manufacturers working to produce better wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings and materials are invited to come to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and capture a bolt of lightning, courtesy of Vortek Industries of Canada.At a ceremony today at the Department of Energy facility, researchers not...
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Most criminals know about robots armed with cameras and shotguns, but there's a new law enforcement weapon on the horizon. Actually, the weapon is a micro-robot about the size of a june bug, so it's only on the horizon if you're at floor level. And that's the idea, according to developers in ORNL's ...
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Thousands of landfills around the nation may be serving as bioreactors, turning inorganic mercury into methylated - or organic - mercury, according to a study by researchers at ORNL. An unknown but likely significant amount of methylated mercury, which is far more toxic than inorganic mercury, is be...
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Working with SpectruMedix Corp., researchers at ORNL could soon find mutations in mice in months instead of years. Researchers are using the Temperature-Gradient Capillary Electrophoresis system to identify mutations simultaneously in 96 samples in less than an hour. This scanning technique has 13 t...
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Minority college students from across the country are participating in a hands-on research program at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) through Aug. 17.The Research Alliance for Minorities (RAM) program - a cooperative effort among DOE, national laboratories and ...