Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Energy Storage (2)
- (-) Grid (2)
- (-) Materials Science (3)
- (-) Polymers (4)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (2)
- Artificial Intelligence (9)
- Big Data (3)
- Bioenergy (2)
- Biology (2)
- Biomedical (1)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (5)
- Climate Change (7)
- Composites (2)
- Computer Science (6)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Decarbonization (3)
- Environment (5)
- Exascale Computing (8)
- Frontier (10)
- Fusion (2)
- High-Performance Computing (9)
- Isotopes (4)
- Machine Learning (3)
- Materials (13)
- Microscopy (2)
- Nanotechnology (3)
- National Security (2)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (5)
- Nuclear Energy (4)
- Partnerships (3)
- Physics (7)
- Quantum Computing (5)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Simulation (7)
- Software (1)
- Summit (6)
- Transportation (4)
Media Contacts
Scientists at ORNL used their knowledge of complex ecosystem processes, energy systems, human dynamics, computational science and Earth-scale modeling to inform the nation’s latest National Climate Assessment, which draws attention to vulnerabilities and resilience opportunities in every region of the country.
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.
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.
Tomonori Saito, a distinguished innovator in the field of polymer science and senior R&D staff member at ORNL, was honored on May 11 in Columbus, Ohio, at Battelle’s Celebration of Solvers.
Chemist Jeff Foster is looking for ways to control sequencing in polymers that could result in designer molecules to benefit a variety of industries, including medicine and energy.
A scientific instrument at ORNL could help create a noninvasive cancer treatment derived from a common tropical plant.
Carbon fiber composites—lightweight and strong—are great structural materials for automobiles, aircraft and other transportation vehicles. They consist of a polymer matrix, such as epoxy, into which reinforcing carbon fibers have been embedded. Because of differences in the mecha...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a crucial component for a new kind of low-cost stationary battery system utilizing common materials and designed for grid-scale electricity storage. Large, economical electricity storage systems can benefit the nation’s grid ...
A tiny vial of gray powder produced at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the backbone of a new experiment to study the intense magnetic fields created in nuclear collisions.