Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (25)
- (-) National Security (13)
- Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Biology and Environment (88)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (79)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (4)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (4)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (3)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Fusion and Fission (22)
- Fusion Energy (12)
- Isotopes (1)
- Materials for Computing (6)
- Mathematics (1)
- Neutron Science (12)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (14)
- Quantum information Science (8)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (44)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Coronavirus (4)
- (-) Environment (15)
- (-) Fusion (7)
- (-) Grid (8)
- (-) Molten Salt (2)
- (-) Quantum Science (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (17)
- Advanced Reactors (5)
- Artificial Intelligence (13)
- Big Data (7)
- Bioenergy (10)
- Biology (6)
- Biomedical (5)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Buildings (4)
- Chemical Sciences (18)
- Clean Water (3)
- Climate Change (7)
- Composites (7)
- Computer Science (23)
- Critical Materials (6)
- Cybersecurity (13)
- Decarbonization (5)
- Energy Storage (23)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Frontier (2)
- High-Performance Computing (6)
- Irradiation (1)
- Isotopes (10)
- ITER (1)
- Machine Learning (11)
- Materials (53)
- Materials Science (48)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (19)
- Nanotechnology (25)
- National Security (27)
- Neutron Science (19)
- Nuclear Energy (18)
- Partnerships (6)
- Physics (18)
- Polymers (12)
- Quantum Computing (3)
- Security (7)
- Simulation (2)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Summit (3)
- Sustainable Energy (10)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (13)
Media Contacts
Jack Orebaugh, a forensic anthropology major at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has a big heart for families with missing loved ones. When someone disappears in an area of dense vegetation, search and recovery efforts can be difficult, especially when a missing person’s last location is unknown. Recognizing the agony of not knowing what happened to a family or friend, Orebaugh decided to use his internship at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to find better ways to search for lost and deceased people using cameras and drones.
In fiscal year 2023 — Oct. 1–Sept. 30, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
Little of the mixed consumer plastics thrown away or placed in recycle bins actually ends up being recycled. Nearly 90% is buried in landfills or incinerated at commercial facilities that generate greenhouse gases and airborne toxins. Neither outcome is ideal for the environment.
Tristen Mullins enjoys the hidden side of computers. As a signals processing engineer for ORNL, she tries to uncover information hidden in components used on the nation’s power grid — information that may be susceptible to cyberattacks.
Creating energy the way the sun and stars do — through nuclear fusion — is one of the grand challenges facing science and technology. What’s easy for the sun and its billions of relatives turns out to be particularly difficult on Earth.
ORNL will team up with six of eight companies that are advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants with the mission to achieve a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion within a decade.
The Autonomous Systems group at ORNL is in high demand as it incorporates remote sensing into projects needing a bird’s-eye perspective.
Three scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.
A partnership of ORNL, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee and TVA that aims to attract nuclear energy-related firms to Oak Ridge has been recognized with a state and local economic development award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.
Three researchers at ORNL have been named ORNL Corporate Fellows in recognition of significant career accomplishments and continued leadership in their scientific fields.