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![Neutron computed tomography reveals how water is constrained to travel only along certain strands of a special yarn coated with a water-wicking compound and a biocatalytic enzyme. Credit: Yuxuan Zhang/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/Bio-yarn.png?h=c7dca165&itok=RGpEPyTV)
Textile engineering researchers from North Carolina State University used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to identify a special wicking mechanism in a type of cotton yarn that allows the fibers to control the flow of liquid across certain strands.
![Mars Rover 2020](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-03/Mars_0.jpg?h=c44fcfa1&itok=gSstQOJO)
More than 50 current employees and recent retirees from ORNL received Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards from Secretary Jennifer Granholm in January as part of project teams spanning the national laboratory system. The annual awards recognized 21 teams and three individuals for service and contributions to DOE’s mission and to the benefit of the nation.
![Trucks deliver concrete to the VENUS instrument construction site at the Spallation Neutron Source. Credit: ORNL/Carlos Jones](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-01/2021-P00073-Cement%20Trucks%20at%20VENUS%20cleared_0.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=FHH93zn3)
Cement trucks entering and exiting the Spallation Neutron Source are a common sight as construction of the VENUS neutron imaging beamline progresses. Slated for completion and commissioning in 2024-2025, VENUS is the twentieth neutron instrument at SNS and will offer many new capabilities.
![Three ORNL scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-01/AAAS_fellows_resize_0.jpg?h=e91a75a9&itok=y20mbH61)
Three ORNL scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
![Brenda Pracheil and Bryan Chakoumakos examine the structure of an otolith under a microscope. Brenda Pracheil and Bryan Chakoumakos examine the structure of an otolith under a microscope.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2016-P07704.jpeg?itok=srIY-MKS)
![Tennessine thumbnail Tennessine thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Tennessine-thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?itok=PEPnpv14)
![Pressure Synthesis Pressure Synthesis](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Pressure%20Synthesis-5652_sm.jpg?itok=n8vyI26s)
![A team from ORNL, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute in Germany has implemented a technique with Wollaston prisms to expand the capabilities currently available at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor instrument HB-1. A team from ORNL, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute in Germany has implemented a technique with Wollaston prisms to expand the capabilities currently available at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor instrument HB-1.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/WollastonP1%20%282%29.jpg?itok=zzQdsgW_)
![The theories that led to physicists Thouless, Haldane, and Kosterlitz being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, are guiding today’s quantum physicists at ORNL in their search for materials of the future. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman) The theories that led to physicists Thouless, Haldane, and Kosterlitz being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, are guiding today’s quantum physicists at ORNL in their search for materials of the future. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/16-G01512_NS_Nobel_web.jpg?itok=i92dwL8T)
The theories recognized with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics underpin research ongoing at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where scientists are using neutrons as a probe to seek new materials with extraordinary properties for applications such as next-generation electronics, superconductors, and quantum computing.
![The SNS LINAC is the most powerful proton-pulsed accelerator in the world. The SNS LINAC is the most powerful proton-pulsed accelerator in the world.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/cryomodule1.jpg?itok=vTrsgto0)