Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Fusion and Fission (29)
- (-) Isotopes (2)
- (-) Neutron Science (103)
- Advanced Manufacturing (6)
- Biology and Environment (57)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (65)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (2)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (3)
- Fusion Energy (15)
- Materials (84)
- Materials for Computing (12)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (18)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (22)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (9)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (70)
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (7)
- (-) Climate Change (2)
- (-) Composites (2)
- (-) Fusion (22)
- (-) Microscopy (4)
- (-) Neutron Science (99)
- (-) Quantum Computing (1)
- (-) Quantum Science (7)
- (-) Security (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (9)
- Artificial Intelligence (7)
- Big Data (2)
- Bioenergy (7)
- Biology (5)
- Biomedical (17)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (6)
- Clean Water (2)
- Computer Science (14)
- Coronavirus (8)
- Critical Materials (1)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Decarbonization (4)
- Energy Storage (10)
- Environment (11)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Fossil Energy (2)
- Frontier (2)
- Grid (2)
- High-Performance Computing (4)
- Irradiation (1)
- Isotopes (25)
- ITER (6)
- Machine Learning (3)
- Materials (18)
- Materials Science (25)
- Mathematics (1)
- Nanotechnology (11)
- National Security (3)
- Net Zero (1)
- Nuclear Energy (32)
- Partnerships (3)
- Physics (10)
- Polymers (1)
- Simulation (3)
- Space Exploration (6)
- Summit (6)
- Sustainable Energy (6)
- Transportation (7)
Media Contacts
![Vanadium atoms (blue) have unusually large thermal vibrations that stabilize the metallic state of a vanadium dioxide crystal. Red depicts oxygen atoms.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-06/82289_web.jpg?h=05d1a54d&itok=_5hHRzzR)
For more than 50 years, scientists have debated what turns particular oxide insulators, in which electrons barely move, into metals, in which electrons flow freely.