![White car (Porsche Taycan) with the hood popped is inside the building with an american flag on the wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_square_large/public/2024-06/2024-P09317.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=m6sQhZRq)
Filter News
Area of Research
- Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Biology and Environment (25)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (24)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Computer Science (5)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Fusion and Fission (4)
- Fusion Energy (1)
- Materials (37)
- Materials for Computing (5)
- National Security (16)
- Neutron Science (10)
- Supercomputing (56)
News Topics
- (-) Chemical Sciences (63)
- (-) Machine Learning (47)
- (-) Summit (57)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (119)
- Advanced Reactors (34)
- Artificial Intelligence (91)
- Big Data (53)
- Bioenergy (91)
- Biology (98)
- Biomedical (58)
- Biotechnology (22)
- Buildings (57)
- Clean Water (29)
- Climate Change (99)
- Composites (26)
- Computer Science (187)
- Coronavirus (46)
- Critical Materials (25)
- Cybersecurity (35)
- Decarbonization (79)
- Education (4)
- Element Discovery (1)
- Emergency (2)
- Energy Storage (108)
- Environment (194)
- Exascale Computing (37)
- Fossil Energy (5)
- Frontier (42)
- Fusion (54)
- Grid (62)
- High-Performance Computing (84)
- Hydropower (11)
- Irradiation (3)
- Isotopes (53)
- ITER (7)
- Materials (143)
- Materials Science (139)
- Mathematics (7)
- Mercury (12)
- Microelectronics (3)
- Microscopy (51)
- Molten Salt (8)
- Nanotechnology (60)
- National Security (60)
- Net Zero (13)
- Neutron Science (131)
- Nuclear Energy (107)
- Partnerships (43)
- Physics (61)
- Polymers (33)
- Quantum Computing (34)
- Quantum Science (69)
- Renewable Energy (2)
- Security (24)
- Simulation (47)
- Software (1)
- Space Exploration (25)
- Statistics (3)
- Sustainable Energy (125)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (7)
- Transportation (97)
Media Contacts
![ORNL's Kyle Gluesenkamp received the FLC Outstanding Researcher Award.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-01/gluesenkamp1_0.jpg?h=319b3f54&itok=kpelvP3i)
Four ORNL teams and one researcher were recognized for excellence in technology transfer and technology transfer innovation.
![ORNL’s Tomás Rush examines a culture as part of his research into the plant-fungus relationship that can help or hinder ecosystem health. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-01/2022-p09834_0.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=iHPtg7RM)
New computational framework speeds discovery of fungal metabolites, key to plant health and used in drug therapies and for other uses.
![Prasanna Balaprakash, who leads ORNL’s AI Initiative, participated in events hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Task Force on American Innovation to discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by AI. Credit: Brian Mosley/Computing Research Association](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-01/01_tfai_decon_ai_20_-_10-26-23_0.jpg?h=411c976c&itok=kRKOW1KH)
In summer 2023, ORNL's Prasanna Balaprakash was invited to speak at a roundtable discussion focused on the importance of academic artificial intelligence research and development hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
![2023 Top Science Achievements at SNS & HFIR](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-12/23-G08001-SNS-Top-Story-Image-pcg.jpg?h=1f0bc3a8&itok=3_ZyuAAO)
The 2023 top science achievements from HFIR and SNS feature a broad range of materials research published in high impact journals such as Nature and Advanced Materials.
![From left, researchers Syed Islam and Ramesh Bhave discuss the nickel sulfate recovered from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries using the membrane solvent extraction process they co-invented at ORNL. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-12/Main-image-Islam-and-Bhave-2023-P17689.jpg?h=aa34054d&itok=B0luDpWK)
Scientists at ORNL have developed a technique for recovering and recycling critical materials that has garnered special recognition from a peer-reviewed materials journal and received a new phase of funding for research and development.
A team from DOE’s Oak Ridge, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new solver algorithm that reduces the total run time of the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Ocean, or MPAS-Ocean, E3SM’s ocean circulation model, by 45%.
![A Univ. of Michigan-led team used Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer, to simulate a system of nearly 75,000 magnesium atoms at near-quantum accuracy. Credit: SC23](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-12/Gavini-SC23_1116_awards-20.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=LQLYh4jz)
A team of eight scientists won the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2023 Gordon Bell Prize for their study that used the world’s first exascale supercomputer to run one of the largest simulations of an alloy ever and achieve near-quantum accuracy.
![ORNL researchers are establishing a digital thread of data, algorithms and workflows to produce a continuously updated model of earth systems.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-11/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%2823%29_0.png?h=c6980913&itok=cK99Pg3y)
Digital twins are exactly what they sound like: virtual models of physical reality that continuously update to reflect changes in the real world.
![benjmain Manard portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-11/2021-P08328%5B7%5D_0.jpg?h=8f0b2d98&itok=BrqzDvtw)
Benjamin Manard has been selected to receive the 2023 JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship
![Ramesh Bhave in lab](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-11/2019-p01791.jpg?h=7bc726c5&itok=LJsGBe80)
Caldera Holding, the owner and developer of Missouri’s Pea Ridge iron mine, has entered a nonexclusive research and development licensing agreement with ORNL to apply a membrane solvent extraction technique, or MSX, developed by ORNL researchers to mined ores.