Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Neutron Science (13)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (26)
- Clean Energy (14)
- Computer Science (1)
- Fusion and Fission (3)
- Fusion Energy (1)
- Isotopes (3)
- Materials (52)
- Materials Characterization (2)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (9)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (4)
- Supercomputing (23)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (1)
- (-) Big Data (1)
- (-) Bioenergy (2)
- (-) Biomedical (2)
- (-) Composites (1)
- (-) Coronavirus (1)
- (-) Materials (7)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Biology (1)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Chemical Sciences (1)
- Clean Water (1)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (1)
- Environment (1)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Machine Learning (1)
- Materials Science (4)
- Nanotechnology (3)
- Neutron Science (28)
- Nuclear Energy (1)
- Physics (2)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Sustainable Energy (1)
- Transportation (2)
Media Contacts
How do you get water to float in midair? With a WAND2, of course. But it’s hardly magic. In fact, it’s a scientific device used by scientists to study matter.
Using neutrons to see the additive manufacturing process at the atomic level, scientists have shown that they can measure strain in a material as it evolves and track how atoms move in response to stress.
In 2023, the National School on X-ray and Neutron Scattering, or NXS, marked its 25th year during its annual program, held August 6–18 at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has selected three ORNL research teams to receive funding through DOE’s new Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment initiative.
Neutron experiments can take days to complete, requiring researchers to work long shifts to monitor progress and make necessary adjustments. But thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, experiments can now be done remotely and in half the time.
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were the first to use neutron reflectometry to peer inside a working solid-state battery and monitor its electrochemistry.
Nonfood, plant-based biofuels have potential as a green alternative to fossil fuels, but the enzymes required for production are too inefficient and costly to produce. However, new research is shining a light on enzymes from fungi that could make biofuels economically viable.
A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a molecule that disrupts the infection mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and could be used to develop new treatments for COVID-19 and other viral diseases.
Scientists have long sought to better understand the “local structure” of materials, meaning the arrangement and activities of the neighboring particles around each atom. In crystals, which are used in electronics and many other applications, most of the atoms form highly ordered lattice patterns that repeat. But not all atoms conform to the pattern.
Warming a crystal of the mineral fresnoite, ORNL scientists discovered that excitations called phasons carried heat three times farther and faster than phonons, the excitations that usually carry heat through a material.