Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Clean Energy (35)
- (-) Fusion and Fission (18)
- (-) Materials (61)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (17)
- Advanced Manufacturing (7)
- Biology and Environment (11)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (6)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion Energy (9)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (3)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (11)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (12)
- Neutron Science (21)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (26)
- Transportation Systems (1)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (7)
- (-) Fusion (14)
- (-) Machine Learning (7)
- (-) Materials Science (65)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (32)
- (-) Security (4)
- (-) Space Exploration (7)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (60)
- Advanced Reactors (12)
- Big Data (2)
- Bioenergy (19)
- Biology (9)
- Biomedical (7)
- Biotechnology (3)
- Buildings (21)
- Chemical Sciences (25)
- Clean Water (5)
- Climate Change (14)
- Composites (15)
- Computer Science (25)
- Coronavirus (7)
- Critical Materials (18)
- Cybersecurity (4)
- Decarbonization (15)
- Energy Storage (58)
- Environment (33)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (2)
- Grid (25)
- High-Performance Computing (5)
- Hydropower (2)
- Isotopes (9)
- ITER (4)
- Materials (67)
- Mathematics (1)
- Mercury (2)
- Microscopy (18)
- Molten Salt (6)
- Nanotechnology (30)
- National Security (5)
- Net Zero (2)
- Neutron Science (31)
- Partnerships (12)
- Physics (17)
- Polymers (16)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Quantum Science (11)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Simulation (3)
- Statistics (1)
- Summit (3)
- Sustainable Energy (52)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (45)
Media Contacts
Four scientists affiliated with ORNL were named Battelle Distinguished Inventors during the lab’s annual Innovation Awards on Dec. 1 in recognition of being granted 14 or more United States patents.
Guided by machine learning, chemists at ORNL designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material.
In a finding that helps elucidate how molten salts in advanced nuclear reactors might behave, scientists have shown how electrons interacting with the ions of the molten salt can form three states with different properties. Understanding these states can help predict the impact of radiation on the performance of salt-fueled reactors.
Quantum computers process information using quantum bits, or qubits, based on fragile, short-lived quantum mechanical states. To make qubits robust and tailor them for applications, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory sought to create a new material system.
A licensing agreement between the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and research partner ZEISS will enable industrial X-ray computed tomography, or CT, to perform rapid evaluations of 3D-printed components using ORNL’s machine
Like most scientists, Chengping Chai is not content with the surface of things: He wants to probe beyond to learn what’s really going on. But in his case, he is literally building a map of the world beneath, using seismic and acoustic data that reveal when and where the earth moves.
A method using augmented reality to create accurate visual representations of ionizing radiation, developed at ORNL, has been licensed by Teletrix, a firm that creates advanced simulation tools to train the nation’s radiation control workforce.
Mickey Wade has been named associate laboratory director for the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, effective April 1.
ORNL has entered a strategic research partnership with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, or UKAEA, to investigate how different types of materials behave under the influence of high-energy neutron sources. The $4 million project is part of UKAEA's roadmap program, which aims to produce electricity from fusion.
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.