Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (89)
- (-) Neutron Science (25)
- (-) Quantum information Science (2)
- Advanced Manufacturing (6)
- Biology and Environment (15)
- Clean Energy (68)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (3)
- Energy Sciences (1)
- Fusion and Fission (13)
- Fusion Energy (8)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (11)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (15)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (15)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (8)
- Supercomputing (49)
- Transportation Systems (1)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Cybersecurity (6)
- (-) Energy Storage (29)
- (-) Frontier (3)
- (-) Fusion (5)
- (-) Isotopes (7)
- (-) Materials Science (59)
- (-) Microscopy (18)
- (-) Space Exploration (3)
- (-) Summit (4)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (21)
- Advanced Reactors (2)
- Artificial Intelligence (5)
- Big Data (1)
- Bioenergy (11)
- Biology (8)
- Biomedical (11)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Buildings (3)
- Chemical Sciences (25)
- Clean Water (1)
- Climate Change (5)
- Composites (7)
- Computer Science (16)
- Coronavirus (8)
- Critical Materials (13)
- Decarbonization (6)
- Environment (11)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Grid (3)
- High-Performance Computing (3)
- ITER (1)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials (54)
- Molten Salt (3)
- Nanotechnology (31)
- National Security (3)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (65)
- Nuclear Energy (7)
- Partnerships (8)
- Physics (19)
- Polymers (12)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Quantum Science (17)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (2)
- Sustainable Energy (11)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
- Transportation (13)
Media Contacts
![Illustration of satellite in front of glowing orange celestial body](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/NASA_Parker_Solar_Probe_rendering.jpg?h=90c266c4&itok=KqHQKRNt)
A shield assembly that protects an instrument measuring ion and electron fluxes for a NASA mission to touch the Sun was tested in extreme experimental environments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory—and passed with flying colors. Components aboard Parker Solar Probe, which will endure th...
![From left, Andrew Lupini and Juan Carlos Idrobo use ORNL’s new monochromated, aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope, a Nion HERMES to take the temperatures of materials at the nanoscale. Image credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory From left, Andrew Lupini and Juan Carlos Idrobo use ORNL’s new monochromated, aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope, a Nion HERMES to take the temperatures of materials at the nanoscale. Image credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2018-P00413.jpg?itok=UKejk7r2)
A scientific team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. This discove...
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Halil Tekinalp combines silanes and polylactic acid to create supertough renewable plastic. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Halil Tekinalp combines silanes and polylactic acid to create supertough renewable plastic.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/02%20Materials-Supertough_bioplastic.jpg?itok=64jAyN8y)
A novel method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory creates supertough renewable plastic with improved manufacturability. Working with polylactic acid, a biobased plastic often used in packaging, textiles, biomedical implants and 3D printing, the research team added tiny amo...
![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.