Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (3)
- (-) Biomedical (8)
- (-) Clean Water (1)
- (-) Isotopes (4)
- (-) Machine Learning (3)
- (-) Security (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (6)
- Advanced Reactors (7)
- Big Data (4)
- Bioenergy (2)
- Biology (4)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Chemical Sciences (2)
- Climate Change (4)
- Computer Science (12)
- Coronavirus (9)
- Cybersecurity (3)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (2)
- Environment (9)
- Fusion (6)
- Grid (1)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Materials (2)
- Materials Science (5)
- Mathematics (1)
- Mercury (1)
- Molten Salt (2)
- Nanotechnology (4)
- National Security (2)
- Neutron Science (7)
- Nuclear Energy (18)
- Physics (2)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Summit (5)
- Sustainable Energy (4)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (1)
Media Contacts
Six scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were named Battelle Distinguished Inventors, in recognition of obtaining 14 or more patents during their careers at the lab.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and collaborators have discovered that signaling molecules known to trigger symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria are also used by almost all fungi as chemical signals to communicate with each other.
NellOne Therapeutics has licensed a drug delivery system from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that is designed to transport therapeutics directly to cells infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19.
Scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory used high-performance computing to create protein models that helped reveal how the outer membrane is tethered to the cell membrane in certain bacteria.
New capabilities and equipment recently installed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are bringing a creek right into the lab to advance understanding of mercury pollution and accelerate solutions.
Radioactive isotopes power some of NASA’s best-known spacecraft. But predicting how radiation emitted from these isotopes might affect nearby materials is tricky
Horizon31, LLC has exclusively licensed a novel communication system that allows users to reliably operate unmanned vehicles such as drones from anywhere in the world using only an internet connection.
After its long journey to Mars beginning this summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover will be powered across the planet’s surface in part by plutonium produced at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
A team led by Dan Jacobson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer at ORNL to analyze genes from cells in the lung fluid of nine COVID-19 patients compared with 40 control patients.
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.