Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Big Data (2)
- (-) Computer Science (4)
- (-) Cybersecurity (1)
- (-) Isotopes (3)
- (-) Machine Learning (2)
- (-) Neutron Science (7)
- (-) Polymers (1)
- (-) Space Exploration (1)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (3)
- Advanced Reactors (3)
- Artificial Intelligence (2)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Biomedical (4)
- Coronavirus (3)
- Fusion (5)
- Materials Science (3)
- Mathematics (1)
- Nanotechnology (1)
- Nuclear Energy (11)
- Physics (1)
- Security (2)
- Summit (1)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (2)
Media Contacts
Porter Bailey started and will end his 33-year career at ORNL in the same building: 7920 of the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center.
East Tennessee occupies a special place in nuclear history. In 1943, the world’s first continuously operating reactor began operating on land that would become ORNL.
Neutron scattering at ORNL has shown that cholesterol stiffens simple lipid membranes, a finding that may help us better understand the functioning of human cells.
Radioactive isotopes power some of NASA’s best-known spacecraft. But predicting how radiation emitted from these isotopes might affect nearby materials is tricky
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.
The 75th anniversary of the final voyage of the USS Indianapolis and her brave crew is Thursday, July 30. The US Navy warship was on a top-secret mission across the Pacific Ocean to deliver war materials that marked the conclusion of the Manhattan Project.
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.
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.
With Tennessee schools online for the rest of the school year, researchers at ORNL are making remote learning more engaging by “Zooming” into virtual classrooms to tell students about their science and their work at a national laboratory.