Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- (-) Biomedical (5)
- (-) Coronavirus (4)
- (-) Grid (1)
- (-) Machine Learning (2)
- (-) Security (1)
- (-) Space Exploration (1)
- Advanced Reactors (3)
- Artificial Intelligence (3)
- Big Data (6)
- Bioenergy (2)
- Computer Science (16)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Energy Storage (2)
- Environment (1)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fusion (5)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Isotopes (1)
- Materials Science (9)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (1)
- Nanotechnology (2)
- Neutron Science (9)
- Nuclear Energy (12)
- Physics (5)
- Polymers (1)
- Quantum Science (4)
- Summit (5)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (1)
Media Contacts
A multi-institutional team, led by a group of investigators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been studying various SARS-CoV-2 protein targets, including the virus’s main protease. The feat has earned the team a finalist nomination for the Association of Computing Machinery, or ACM, Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research.
About 60 years ago, scientists discovered that a certain rare earth metal-hydrogen mixture, yttrium, could be the ideal moderator to go inside small, gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
Radioactive isotopes power some of NASA’s best-known spacecraft. But predicting how radiation emitted from these isotopes might affect nearby materials is tricky
It’s a new type of nuclear reactor core. And the materials that will make it up are novel — products of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s advanced materials and manufacturing technologies.
Pick your poison. It can be deadly for good reasons such as protecting crops from harmful insects or fighting parasite infection as medicine — or for evil as a weapon for bioterrorism. Or, in extremely diluted amounts, it can be used to enhance beauty.
ORNL researchers have developed an intelligent power electronic inverter platform that can connect locally sited energy resources such as solar panels, energy storage and electric vehicles and smoothly interact with the utility power grid.
From materials science and earth system modeling to quantum information science and cybersecurity, experts in many fields run simulations and conduct experiments to collect the abundance of data necessary for scientific progress.
COVID-19 has upended nearly every aspect of our daily lives and forced us all to rethink how we can continue our work in a more physically isolated world.
Scientists at the Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL have their eyes on the prize: the Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR, a microreactor built using 3D printing and other new approaches that will be up and running by 2023.
Research by an international team led by Duke University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists could speed the way to safer rechargeable batteries for consumer electronics such as laptops and cellphones.