Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (29)
- (-) Clean Energy (40)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (1)
- Fusion and Fission (3)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (7)
- Materials (43)
- Materials for Computing (5)
- National Security (13)
- Neutron Science (20)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (6)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Supercomputing (36)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Bioenergy (19)
- (-) Biomedical (6)
- (-) Cybersecurity (4)
- (-) Environment (24)
- (-) Grid (9)
- (-) Isotopes (2)
- (-) Mercury (1)
- (-) Microscopy (4)
- (-) Physics (1)
- (-) Summit (5)
- (-) Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (29)
- Advanced Reactors (3)
- Artificial Intelligence (5)
- Big Data (2)
- Biology (18)
- Biotechnology (6)
- Buildings (8)
- Chemical Sciences (11)
- Clean Water (1)
- Climate Change (12)
- Composites (6)
- Computer Science (13)
- Coronavirus (8)
- Critical Materials (4)
- Decarbonization (11)
- Energy Storage (26)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (1)
- Fusion (2)
- High-Performance Computing (6)
- Machine Learning (5)
- Materials (19)
- Materials Science (12)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (6)
- National Security (4)
- Net Zero (2)
- Neutron Science (10)
- Nuclear Energy (4)
- Partnerships (8)
- Polymers (5)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (3)
- Simulation (5)
- Sustainable Energy (26)
- Transportation (17)
Media Contacts
![CellSight allows for rapid mass spectrometry of individual cells. Credit: John Cahill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-10/4CellSightPhoto_0.png?h=67debf3e&itok=fmsxiN_b)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received five 2019 R&D 100 Awards, increasing the lab’s total to 221 since the award’s inception in 1963.
![Water and energy are inextricably linked, yet in our 20th-century water systems we use freshwater once then throw it away. With innovations designed to enhance desalination technologies, agricultural runoff, produced water from industry, and inland brackish groundwater that are now seen as untreatable could all be sources of clean, safe, and affordable water.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-09/thumb_nawi.jpg?h=f7696e41&itok=hnr0jkMY)
The National Alliance for Water Innovation, a partnership of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, other national labs, university and private sector partners, has been awarded a five-year, $100 million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by DOE to address water security issues in the United States.
![Electro-Active Tech license signing ceremony](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-08/ORNL-E-A-1_1.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=DHR3SuUX)
Electro-Active Technologies, Inc., of Knoxville, Tenn., has exclusively licensed two biorefinery technologies invented and patented by the startup’s co-founders while working at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The technologies work as a system that converts organic waste into renewable hydrogen gas for use as a biofuel.
A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and soil fungi, and successfully facilitated the symbiosis in a plant that
![Using as much as 50 percent lignin by weight, a new composite material created at ORNL is well suited for use in 3D printing. Using as much as 50 percent lignin by weight, a new composite material created at ORNL is well suited for use in 3D printing.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2018-P09551.jpg?itok=q7Ri01Qb)
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a recipe for a renewable 3D printing feedstock that could spur a profitable new use for an intractable biorefinery byproduct: lignin.
Scientists studying a valuable, but vulnerable, species of poplar have identified the genetic mechanism responsible for the species’ inability to resist a pervasive and deadly disease. Their finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could lead to more successful hybrid poplar varieties for increased biofuels and forestry production and protect native trees against infection.
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory launches Summit supercomputer. Oak Ridge National Laboratory launches Summit supercomputer.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2018-P01537.jpg?itok=GLf4y1EZ)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.
![Methanotroph_OB3b_cells Methanotroph_OB3b_cells](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Methanotroph_OB3b_cells_2.jpg?itok=Iml9vTIS)
A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity levels and sup...