Bill Strunk of ORNL’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate received the ORNL Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology during the Laboratory’s Awards Night event Nov. 18 at the Knoxville Convention Center.

Strunk was recognized for exemplary leade...

A team of scientists from ORNL and the University of Florida has developed a novel method that could yield lower-cost, higher-efficiency systems for water heating in residential buildings.

DOE is planning to invest $16 million over four years to accelerate the design of new materials through the use of supercomputers utilizing teams from ORNL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The two teams will work to develop software to design fundamentally new functional materials...

The American Physical Society’s president-elect, Laura Greene, recognized ORNL’s Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility as an APS Historic Physics Site at the recent Nuclear Structure 2016 Conference and Neutrinos in Nuclear Physics Workshop held in Knoxville.

ORNL’s climate and energy scientists have developed a new method to pinpoint which electrical service areas will be most vulnerable as populations grow and temperatures rise. “For the first time, we were able to apply data at a high enough resolution to be relevant,” said ORNL’s Melissa Allen, co-au...

The 1956 presidential campaign made a stop at ORNL Thursday, Aug. 30 when Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson and his running mate, Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., visited.

The American Physical Society (APS) has honored the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility as an APS Historic Physics Site. It is the first designated APS Historic Physics Site in the state of Tennessee.

The APS is one of the world’s top professional societies for scientists. APS President Laura...