Estimates of increased plant respiration in response to higher global temperatures may be somewhat overstated as they have not taken into account plants' ability to adjust to changing conditions, according to researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In a Perspectives paper published Apri...
Celebrating the accomplishments of women in science will be the theme of a program Monday afternoon at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Oak Ridge's Lynn Kszos says the program will focus on several highlights. "We will highlight the technical accomplishments of wome...
A center to prepare and measure radioactivity standards used for a new nuclear medicine technology has been dedicated at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Michael Schultz of the National Institute of Standards and Technology says the center will focus on Positron Emissio...
Researchers at the Russell Lab, the Mammalian Genetics Research Facility at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have generated a mutant mouse with spinal curvature and defects in the skull. The mutated gene, Nell1, which the researchers identified, affects numerous genes that control bone and carti...
By borrowing from nature, Xiaohui Cui of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is devising more efficient ways to analyze large amounts of publicly available data and perform other tasks to make information more accessible and useful. While ants and birds don't know anything about mathematical models, they ...
Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping to design a more practicable and energy efficient heat exchange unit in air-conditioning systems for buildings. Ed Vineyard of the laboratory's Engineering Science and Technology Division heads a team designing a natural gas-powered 10-ton micro c...
Anthropologists like Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Amy Wolfe don't assume that technology always makes for a better life. Instead, they take a longer view and want to know what implications are likely over time and possible consequences whether the technologies and applications work or do not work...
Four public nature walks are planned this spring in four different areas of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park. The schedule includes two wildflower walks April 8 and May 6, along with a couple of bird walks April 22 and April 30."Spring is a great time to exp...
In a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Bill Whitten and Peter Reilly of ORNL'S Chemical Sciences Division are teaming with Honeywell to develop a micro gas analyzer the size of a cell phone that combines a very small gas chromatograph with a tiny mass spectromete...
Naturally occurring photosynthetic microorganisms are the focus of an invention to rapidly detect contamination of water supplies. The patent, awarded recently to a team led by Eli Greenbaum of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, advances previous work in this area but involves a method rather than...