Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (29)
- (-) National Security (8)
- (-) Supercomputing (16)
- Advanced Manufacturing (3)
- Biology and Environment (54)
- Building Technologies (2)
- Clean Energy (87)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (3)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Computer Science (6)
- Energy Sciences (1)
- Fusion and Fission (2)
- Fusion Energy (1)
- Isotopes (3)
- Materials for Computing (8)
- Mathematics (1)
- Neutron Science (28)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (3)
- Transportation Systems (2)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Biomedical (6)
- (-) Coronavirus (4)
- (-) Environment (8)
- (-) Exascale Computing (2)
- (-) Machine Learning (3)
- (-) Microscopy (9)
- (-) Nanotechnology (12)
- (-) Neutron Science (6)
- (-) Security (3)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (5)
- (-) Transportation (8)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (7)
- Advanced Reactors (2)
- Artificial Intelligence (3)
- Big Data (6)
- Bioenergy (2)
- Biology (1)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (6)
- Clean Water (1)
- Climate Change (5)
- Composites (4)
- Computer Science (22)
- Critical Materials (7)
- Cybersecurity (5)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (10)
- Frontier (2)
- Fusion (4)
- Grid (3)
- High-Performance Computing (6)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials (16)
- Materials Science (25)
- Molten Salt (1)
- National Security (10)
- Nuclear Energy (7)
- Physics (8)
- Polymers (9)
- Quantum Computing (5)
- Quantum Science (5)
- Simulation (2)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Summit (6)
Media Contacts
Electric vehicles can drive longer distances if their lithium-ion batteries deliver more energy in a lighter package. A prime weight-loss candidate is the current collector, a component that often adds 10% to the weight of a battery cell without contributing energy.
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.
After completing a bachelor’s degree in biology, Toya Beiswenger didn’t intend to go into forensics. But almost two decades later, the nuclear security scientist at ORNL has found a way to appreciate the art of nuclear forensics.
An advance in a topological insulator material — whose interior behaves like an electrical insulator but whose surface behaves like a conductor — could revolutionize the fields of next-generation electronics and quantum computing, according to scientists at ORNL.
ORNL scientists found that a small tweak created big performance improvements in a type of solid-state battery, a technology considered vital to broader electric vehicle adoption.
At the National Center for Computational Sciences, Ashley Barker enjoys one of the least complicated–sounding job titles at ORNL: section head of operations. But within that seemingly ordinary designation lurks a multitude of demanding roles as she oversees the complete user experience for NCCS computer systems.
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.
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.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers serendipitously discovered when they automated the beam of an electron microscope to precisely drill holes in the atomically thin lattice of graphene, the drilled holes closed up.
Having lived on three continents spanning the world’s four hemispheres, Philipe Ambrozio Dias understands the difficulties of moving to a new place.