Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (3)
- (-) Biomedical (4)
- (-) Energy Storage (1)
- (-) Fusion (5)
- (-) Isotopes (1)
- (-) Space Exploration (1)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (5)
- Big Data (6)
- Biology (1)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (1)
- Climate Change (2)
- Computer Science (25)
- Coronavirus (5)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Environment (5)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Grid (1)
- High-Performance Computing (7)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials Science (6)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (1)
- Nanotechnology (2)
- Neutron Science (5)
- Nuclear Energy (11)
- Physics (3)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Quantum Science (5)
- Security (1)
- Summit (7)
- Sustainable Energy (1)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (2)
- Transportation (1)
Media Contacts
An ORNL-led team comprising researchers from multiple DOE national laboratories is using artificial intelligence and computational screening techniques – in combination with experimental validation – to identify and design five promising drug therapy approaches to target the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Twenty-seven ORNL researchers Zoomed into 11 middle schools across Tennessee during the annual Engineers Week in February. East Tennessee schools throughout Oak Ridge and Roane, Sevier, Blount and Loudon counties participated, with three West Tennessee schools joining in.
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.
Radioactive isotopes power some of NASA’s best-known spacecraft. But predicting how radiation emitted from these isotopes might affect nearby materials is tricky
The inside of future nuclear fusion energy reactors will be among the harshest environments ever produced on Earth. What’s strong enough to protect the inside of a fusion reactor from plasma-produced heat fluxes akin to space shuttles reentering Earth’s atmosphere?
As CASL ends and transitions to VERA Users Group, ORNL looks at the history of the program and its impact on the nuclear industry.
Lithium, the silvery metal that powers smart phones and helps treat bipolar disorders, could also play a significant role in the worldwide effort to harvest on Earth the safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy that powers the sun and stars.
Temperatures hotter than the center of the sun. Magnetic fields hundreds of thousands of times stronger than the earth’s. Neutrons energetic enough to change the structure of a material entirely.
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.
In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.