Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Neutron Science (82)
- Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (92)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (71)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (2)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (6)
- Fusion and Fission (12)
- Fusion Energy (1)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (23)
- Materials (94)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (13)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (31)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (14)
- Quantum information Science (2)
- Supercomputing (103)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (5)
- (-) Biomedical (9)
- (-) Clean Water (2)
- (-) Computer Science (13)
- (-) Environment (6)
- (-) Materials Science (20)
- (-) Neutron Science (73)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (6)
- Big Data (2)
- Bioenergy (5)
- Biology (5)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Chemical Sciences (1)
- Climate Change (1)
- Composites (1)
- Coronavirus (8)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Decarbonization (2)
- Energy Storage (4)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (1)
- Fusion (1)
- High-Performance Computing (2)
- Machine Learning (3)
- Materials (11)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (2)
- Nanotechnology (8)
- National Security (2)
- Nuclear Energy (2)
- Physics (8)
- Polymers (1)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Quantum Science (5)
- Security (2)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Summit (6)
- Sustainable Energy (2)
- Transportation (3)
Media Contacts
![ORNL Image](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2017-S00094_2.jpg?itok=ZGWBnMOv)
Researchers used neutrons to probe a running engine at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source
![Vanadium atoms (blue) have unusually large thermal vibrations that stabilize the metallic state of a vanadium dioxide crystal. Red depicts oxygen atoms.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-06/82289_web.jpg?h=05d1a54d&itok=_5hHRzzR)
For more than 50 years, scientists have debated what turns particular oxide insulators, in which electrons barely move, into metals, in which electrons flow freely.