Filter News
Area of Research
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Bioenergy (24)
- (-) Composites (5)
- (-) Frontier (2)
- (-) Grid (3)
- (-) Molten Salt (2)
- (-) Nanotechnology (26)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (15)
- Advanced Reactors (1)
- Artificial Intelligence (5)
- Big Data (2)
- Biology (34)
- Biomedical (10)
- Biotechnology (7)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (25)
- Clean Water (4)
- Climate Change (16)
- Computer Science (14)
- Coronavirus (9)
- Critical Materials (8)
- Cybersecurity (4)
- Decarbonization (9)
- Energy Storage (22)
- Environment (41)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fusion (4)
- High-Performance Computing (12)
- Hydropower (2)
- Isotopes (5)
- ITER (1)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Materials (45)
- Materials Science (45)
- Mathematics (2)
- Mercury (4)
- Microscopy (19)
- National Security (3)
- Net Zero (3)
- Neutron Science (23)
- Nuclear Energy (4)
- Partnerships (9)
- Physics (21)
- Polymers (9)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Quantum Science (10)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (1)
- Simulation (7)
- Summit (5)
- Sustainable Energy (16)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
- Transportation (4)
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.
Scientists at ORNL used their expertise in quantum biology, artificial intelligence and bioengineering to improve how CRISPR Cas9 genome editing tools work on organisms like microbes that can be modified to produce renewable fuels and chemicals.
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.
ORNL has been selected to lead an Energy Earthshot Research Center, or EERC, focused on developing chemical processes that use sustainable methods instead of burning fossil fuels to radically reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to stem climate change and limit the crisis of a rapidly warming planet.
Wildfires are an ancient force shaping the environment, but they have grown in frequency, range and intensity in response to a changing climate. At ORNL, scientists are working on several fronts to better understand and predict these events and what they mean for the carbon cycle and biodiversity.
In a discovery aimed at accelerating the development of process-advantaged crops for jet biofuels, scientists at ORNL developed a capability to insert multiple genes into plants in a single step.
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.
Growing up in China, Yue Yuan stood beneath the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, built to harness the world’s third-longest river. Her father brought her to Three Gorges Dam every year as it was being constructed across the Yangtze River so she could witness its progress.
Joanna Tannous has found the perfect organism to study to satisfy her deeply curious nature, her skills in biochemistry and genetics, and a drive to create solutions for a better world. The organism is a poorly understood life form that greatly influences its environment and is unique enough to deserve its own biological kingdom: fungi.
Seven scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named Battelle Distinguished Inventors, in recognition of their obtaining 14 or more patents during their careers at the lab.