Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (37)
- (-) Neutron Science (61)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (4)
- Advanced Manufacturing (5)
- Biology and Environment (42)
- Building Technologies (2)
- Clean Energy (58)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Computer Science (12)
- Energy Sciences (1)
- Fusion and Fission (5)
- Fusion Energy (3)
- Materials for Computing (8)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (13)
- Quantum information Science (5)
- Supercomputing (75)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Computer Science (14)
- (-) Mathematics (1)
- (-) Neutron Science (63)
- (-) Physics (16)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (5)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (13)
- Advanced Reactors (9)
- Artificial Intelligence (7)
- Big Data (2)
- Bioenergy (6)
- Biology (1)
- Biomedical (11)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (13)
- Clean Water (4)
- Composites (6)
- Coronavirus (5)
- Critical Materials (5)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Decarbonization (3)
- Energy Storage (17)
- Environment (9)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Fusion (12)
- Grid (2)
- High-Performance Computing (2)
- Isotopes (10)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Materials (37)
- Materials Science (46)
- Microscopy (14)
- Molten Salt (5)
- Nanotechnology (20)
- National Security (1)
- Nuclear Energy (37)
- Partnerships (3)
- Polymers (12)
- Quantum Computing (3)
- Quantum Science (3)
- Security (1)
- Space Exploration (7)
- Summit (2)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (13)
Media Contacts
A chemist from Oak Ridge National Laboratory attracted national attention when her advocacy for science education made People magazine’s annual “Women Changing the World” issue.
The old photos show her casually writing data in a logbook with stacks of lead bricks nearby, or sealing a vacuum chamber with a wrench. ORNL researcher Frances Pleasonton was instrumental in some of the earliest explorations of the properties of the neutron as the X-10 Site was finding its postwar footing as a research lab.
Scientists have long sought to better understand the “local structure” of materials, meaning the arrangement and activities of the neighboring particles around each atom. In crystals, which are used in electronics and many other applications, most of the atoms form highly ordered lattice patterns that repeat. But not all atoms conform to the pattern.
For nearly six years, the Majorana Demonstrator quietly listened to the universe. Nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, or SURF, in Lead, South Dakota, the experiment collected data that could answer one of the most perplexing questions in physics: Why is the universe filled with something instead of nothing?
A scientific instrument at ORNL could help create a noninvasive cancer treatment derived from a common tropical plant.
Warming a crystal of the mineral fresnoite, ORNL scientists discovered that excitations called phasons carried heat three times farther and faster than phonons, the excitations that usually carry heat through a material.
Natural gas furnaces not only heat your home, they also produce a lot of pollution. Even modern high-efficiency condensing furnaces produce significant amounts of corrosive acidic condensation and unhealthy levels of nitrogen oxides
Researchers from Yale University and ORNL collaborated on neutron scattering experiments to study hydrogen atom locations and their effects on iron in a compound similar to those commonly used in industrial catalysts.
Critical Materials Institute researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Arizona State University studied the mineral monazite, an important source of rare-earth elements, to enhance methods of recovering critical materials for energy, defense and manufacturing applications.
The truth is neutron scattering is not important, according to Steve Nagler. The knowledge gained from using it is what’s important