Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (10)
- (-) Materials (16)
- Advanced Manufacturing (12)
- Building Technologies (1)
- Clean Energy (58)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (5)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Fusion and Fission (6)
- Fusion Energy (6)
- Materials for Computing (2)
- National Security (10)
- Neutron Science (1)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (2)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (6)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (7)
- (-) Fusion (3)
- (-) Grid (2)
- (-) Machine Learning (2)
- (-) Mercury (4)
- (-) Physics (9)
- (-) Summit (1)
- Advanced Reactors (1)
- Artificial Intelligence (1)
- Big Data (2)
- Bioenergy (21)
- Biology (31)
- Biomedical (8)
- Biotechnology (4)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (9)
- Clean Water (8)
- Climate Change (15)
- Composites (5)
- Computer Science (6)
- Coronavirus (4)
- Critical Materials (5)
- Decarbonization (7)
- Energy Storage (9)
- Environment (42)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- High-Performance Computing (8)
- Hydropower (5)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials (17)
- Materials Science (27)
- Mathematics (2)
- Microscopy (13)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (12)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (6)
- Nuclear Energy (5)
- Polymers (9)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Simulation (4)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Sustainable Energy (18)
- Transportation (7)
Media Contacts
![An ORNL-developed graphite foam, which could be used in plasma-facing components in fusion reactors, performed well during testing at the Wendlestein 7-X stellarator in Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-02/W7-XPlasmaExposure_0.jpg?h=d5d04e3b&itok=uKiauhdF)
Scientists have tested a novel heat-shielding graphite foam, originally created at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, at Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellarator with promising results for use in plasma-facing components of fusion reactors.
![Leah Broussard leads a study of neutron decay to understand correlations between electrons and antineutrinos as well as subtle distortions in the electron energy spectrum.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/IMAGE%201_%202018-P08260_0.jpg?h=65b96206&itok=sitguWk-)
Leah Broussard, a physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has so much fun exploring the neutron that she alternates between calling it her “laboratory” and “playground” for understanding the universe. “The neutron is special,” she said of the sub...
![Physics_silicon-detectors.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Physics_silicon-detectors.jpg?h=c920d705&itok=Q1fP5ZTi)
Physicists turned to the “doubly magic” tin isotope Sn-132, colliding it with a target at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to assess its properties as it lost a neutron to become Sn-131.
![Lauren Garrison Lauren Garrison](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2015-P03829.jpg?itok=7aYmdo0N)
The materials inside a fusion reactor must withstand one of the most extreme environments in science, with temperatures in the thousands of degrees Celsius and a constant bombardment of neutron radiation and deuterium and tritium, isotopes of hydrogen, from the volatile plasma at th...
![3D printed permanent magnets with increased density were made from an improved mixture of materials, which could lead to longer lasting, better performing magnets for electric motors, sensors and vehicle applications. Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge Nati 3D printed permanent magnets with increased density were made from an improved mixture of materials, which could lead to longer lasting, better performing magnets for electric motors, sensors and vehicle applications. Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge Nati](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/06%20-%203D-printed_permament_magnet.jpg?itok=q28pGVEm)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have improved a mixture of materials used to 3D print permanent magnets with increased density, which could yield longer lasting, better performing magnets for electric motors, sensors and vehicle applications. Building on previous research, ...