Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Computer Science (5)
- (-) Environment (8)
- (-) Physics (2)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (11)
- Advanced Reactors (1)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Biomedical (3)
- Buildings (4)
- Chemical Sciences (4)
- Clean Water (2)
- Composites (2)
- Critical Materials (3)
- Decarbonization (2)
- Energy Storage (8)
- Fusion (2)
- Grid (5)
- Hydropower (1)
- Isotopes (1)
- Materials (5)
- Materials Science (13)
- Mercury (1)
- Microscopy (3)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (6)
- Neutron Science (14)
- Nuclear Energy (4)
- Polymers (3)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Simulation (1)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Sustainable Energy (4)
- Transportation (14)
Media Contacts
![Researchers used machine learning methods on the ORNL Compute and Data Environment for Science, or CADES, to map vegetation communities in the Kougarok Watershed on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The colors denote different types of vegetation, such as w Researchers used machine learning methods on the ORNL Compute and Data Environment for Science, or CADES, to map vegetation communities in the Kougarok Watershed on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The colors denote different types of vegetation, such as w](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/rs2019_highlight_plot_3d.png?itok=5bROV_ys)
A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory used machine learning methods to generate a high-resolution map of vegetation growing in the remote reaches of the Alaskan tundra.
![Physics_silicon-detectors.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Physics_silicon-detectors.jpg?h=c920d705&itok=Q1fP5ZTi)
Physicists turned to the “doubly magic” tin isotope Sn-132, colliding it with a target at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to assess its properties as it lost a neutron to become Sn-131.
![Methanogen_mercury_study3.jpg Methanogen_mercury_study3.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Methanogen_mercury_study3.jpg?itok=a79hsOOv)
Biologists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have confirmed that microorganisms called methanogens can transform mercury into the neurotoxin methylmercury with varying efficiency across species.