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ORNL researchers are turning a physical oddity into cleaner, cheaper appliances.
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The ingredients that make geothermal energy suitable for electricity production are simple: heat, permeability (usually fractured rock) and water. Until recently the trick has been finding all in the same place and in the right amounts.
Enormous heat energy is available between 3 and 10 kilometer...
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Imagine a future in which your car no longer needs someone behind the wheel.
The time you devote to your daily commute—now often a waste—would be available for reading, working, watching videos or even napping. Physical disabilities would no longer keep you homebound. You could send your kids to ...
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Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold delivered the Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture in Science, Technology, and Policy at ORNL on Nov. 2, 2015
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The discovery of element 117—tennessine, as it has been provisionally named—was made possible by a collaboration of researchers in the United States and Russia. ORNL provided the radioisotope berkelium-249, which was bombarded with a beam of calcium-48 at Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Researc...