Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (40)
- (-) Clean Energy (59)
- (-) Fusion Energy (7)
- Advanced Manufacturing (3)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (5)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (1)
- Fusion and Fission (6)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (3)
- Materials (63)
- Materials for Computing (6)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (6)
- Neutron Science (24)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (12)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (4)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (33)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (10)
- (-) Bioenergy (30)
- (-) Climate Change (27)
- (-) Grid (25)
- (-) Nanotechnology (7)
- (-) Physics (1)
- (-) Quantum Science (1)
- (-) Space Exploration (2)
- (-) Statistics (1)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (53)
- Artificial Intelligence (7)
- Big Data (4)
- Biology (34)
- Biomedical (9)
- Biotechnology (9)
- Buildings (21)
- Chemical Sciences (12)
- Clean Water (8)
- Composites (15)
- Computer Science (27)
- Coronavirus (11)
- Critical Materials (8)
- Cybersecurity (4)
- Decarbonization (17)
- Energy Storage (47)
- Environment (55)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (2)
- Fusion (10)
- High-Performance Computing (10)
- Hydropower (4)
- Isotopes (2)
- Machine Learning (8)
- Materials (32)
- Materials Science (23)
- Mathematics (1)
- Mercury (3)
- Microscopy (6)
- Molten Salt (1)
- National Security (4)
- Net Zero (3)
- Neutron Science (10)
- Nuclear Energy (11)
- Partnerships (8)
- Polymers (10)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (3)
- Simulation (7)
- Summit (6)
- Sustainable Energy (62)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- Transportation (44)
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.
Researchers at ORNL have been leading a project to understand how a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could threaten power plants.
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.
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.
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Northeastern University modeled how extreme conditions in a changing climate affect the land’s ability to absorb atmospheric carbon — a key process for mitigating human-caused emissions. They found that 88% of Earth’s regions could become carbon emitters by the end of the 21st century.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists studied hot springs on different continents and found similarities in how some microbes adapted despite their geographic diversity.
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.
An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at ORNL for capturing carbon dioxide has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide
Colleen Iversen, ecosystem ecologist, group leader and distinguished staff scientist, has been named director of the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic, or NGEE Arctic, a multi-institutional project studying permafrost thaw and other climate-related processes in Alaska.