Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (19)
- (-) Materials (27)
- Advanced Manufacturing (14)
- Building Technologies (1)
- Clean Energy (77)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (7)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (2)
- Fusion and Fission (31)
- Fusion Energy (13)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials for Computing (2)
- National Security (20)
- Neutron Science (10)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (28)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (29)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (12)
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (9)
- (-) Fusion (4)
- (-) Grid (4)
- (-) Machine Learning (7)
- (-) Mercury (7)
- (-) Molten Salt (1)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (12)
- Advanced Reactors (2)
- Big Data (9)
- Bioenergy (38)
- Biology (56)
- Biomedical (14)
- Biotechnology (8)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (14)
- Clean Water (14)
- Climate Change (32)
- Composites (7)
- Computer Science (22)
- Coronavirus (7)
- Critical Materials (5)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Decarbonization (19)
- Energy Storage (15)
- Environment (81)
- Exascale Computing (5)
- Frontier (3)
- High-Performance Computing (16)
- Hydropower (8)
- Isotopes (8)
- Materials (33)
- Materials Science (38)
- Mathematics (3)
- Microscopy (19)
- Nanotechnology (18)
- National Security (2)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (13)
- Partnerships (3)
- Physics (14)
- Polymers (11)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (2)
- Simulation (10)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Summit (7)
- Sustainable Energy (31)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (2)
- Transportation (11)
Media Contacts
In fiscal year 2023 — Oct. 1–Sept. 30, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
ORNL, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is poised to strengthen its programs and service to the United States over the next decade if national recommendations of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, or NSAC, are enacted.
In the search for ways to fight methylmercury in global waterways, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered that some forms of phytoplankton are good at degrading the potent neurotoxin.
Wildfires have shaped the environment for millennia, but they are increasing in frequency, range and intensity in response to a hotter climate. The phenomenon is being incorporated into high-resolution simulations of the Earth’s climate by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with a mission to better understand and predict environmental change.
Creating energy the way the sun and stars do — through nuclear fusion — is one of the grand challenges facing science and technology. What’s easy for the sun and its billions of relatives turns out to be particularly difficult on Earth.
ORNL will team up with six of eight companies that are advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants with the mission to achieve a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion within a decade.
When reading the novel Jurassic Park as a teenager, Jerry Parks found the passages about gene sequencing and supercomputers fascinating, but never imagined he might someday pursue such futuristic-sounding science.
Nature-based solutions are an effective tool to combat climate change triggered by rising carbon emissions, whether it’s by clearing the skies with bio-based aviation fuels or boosting natural carbon sinks.
A new report published by ORNL assessed how advanced manufacturing and materials, such as 3D printing and novel component coatings, could offer solutions to modernize the existing fleet and design new approaches to hydropower.
ORNL researchers have identified a mechanism in a 3D-printed alloy – termed “load shuffling” — that could enable the design of better-performing lightweight materials for vehicles.