Background image represents the cobalt oxide structure Goodenough demonstrated could produce four volts of electricity with intercalated lithium ions. This early research led to energy storage and performance advances in myriad electronic applications. Credit: Jill Hemman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Nobel winners’ ongoing research benefits from ORNL neutron science
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated that metal foam enhances the evaporation process in thermal conversion systems and enables the development of compact heating, ventilation and refrigeration, or HVAC&R, units.
Buildings—Reaching the boiling point
As determined by small angle neutron scattering, this complex of proteins—alpha-catenin, shown in blue; beta-catenin, shown in purple; and E-cadherin, shown in yellow—is the central component of the adhesion junction, which transmits mechanical stress from cell to cell. Credit: Jill Hemman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Jason Nattress, an Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow, is developing new nuclear material inspection and identification techniques to improve scanning times for ocean-going cargo containers.

Jason Nattress: Weinberg Fellow discovered nuclear engineering in the U.S. Navy

Jason Nattress, an Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, found his calling on a nuclear submarine.

ORNL researcher Chengyun Hua explains chemical elements to Leah Pitts, 9, and her sister Madeline, 6, as their mother, Shayne looks on. The Pittses are part of Pack 50 in the Karns area of Knoxville.

Traveling Science Fair adds STEM to weekend Scoutfest

Scouts from around East Tennessee learned about supercomputing, electricity, isotopes, physics, and much more at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s final Traveling Science Fair event of 2019

Bio-circuitry mimics synapses and neurons

Bio-circuitry mimics synapses and neurons in a step toward sensory computing

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee and Texas A&M University demonstrated bio-inspired devices that accelerate routes to neuromorphic, or brain-like, computing.

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Department of Energy announces private-public awards to advance fusion energy technology

The U.S. Department of Energy announced funding for 12 projects with private industry to enable collaboration with DOE national laboratories on overcoming challenges in fusion energy development.

Background image represents the cobalt oxide structure Goodenough demonstrated could produce four volts of electricity with intercalated lithium ions. This early research led to energy storage and performance advances in myriad electronic applications. Credit: Jill Hemman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Nobel winners’ ongoing research benefits from ORNL neutron science

Two of the researchers who share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced Wednesday—John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin and M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University in New York—have research ties to ORNL.

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