In an effort to reduce errors in the analyses of diagnostic images by health professionals, a team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has improved understanding of the cognitive processes
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![Oak Ridge National Laboratory launches Summit supercomputer. Oak Ridge National Laboratory launches Summit supercomputer.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2018-P01537.jpg?itok=GLf4y1EZ)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.
![Graphical representation of a deuteron, the bound state of a proton (red) and a neutron (blue). Credit: Andy Sproles/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy. Graphical representation of a deuteron, the bound state of a proton (red) and a neutron (blue). Credit: Andy Sproles/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/deuteron%5B4%5D.jpg?itok=hEV9C82i)
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are the first to successfully simulate an atomic nucleus using a quantum computer.
![Nanoscale spikes of carbon help catalyze a reaction that generates ammonia from nitrogen and water. Nanoscale spikes of carbon help catalyze a reaction that generates ammonia from nitrogen and water.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/nanospikes%20NH3.png?itok=sI4gNuQf)
![ORNL_catalysis_of_olefins ORNL_catalysis_of_olefins](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/ORNL_catalysis_of_olefins_0.png?itok=FNoOm7h4)
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute, renowned for advances in nonmetallic catalysis, leveraged computational modeling support from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to overcome a major limiting factor in the breakdown of simple organic compounds calle
![New exascale earth modeling system for energy New exascale earth modeling system for energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/thumb2_0.jpg?itok=S5I0NIQC)
![ORNL_machine_speak_demo ORNL_machine_speak_demo](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/ORNL_machine_speak_demo2.jpg?itok=8Sx1NdkI)
Using novel machine learning techniques, a research team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is teaching electronic devices how to speak for themselves.
![L-R: ORNL’s Arvind Ramanathan, Hugh O’Neill, and Paul Gilna inside the Summit supercomputer room. Photo courtesy: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. L-R: ORNL’s Arvind Ramanathan, Hugh O’Neill, and Paul Gilna inside the Summit supercomputer room. Photo courtesy: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/front_page_slide_assets/CryoEM%20Group%20Pic%20Blue%20Cabinets_0.jpg?itok=4v-KBrog)
Nearly a dozen scientists across Oak Ridge National Laboratory are teaming with medical researchers and leveraging ORNL’s biggest science tools to solve a modern-day biology grand challenge: unlocking the secrets of disordered proteins.
![ORNL_mouth_microbes ORNL_mouth_microbes](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Contest_NoLogo.jpg?itok=wiXMu7CU)
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team cultivated a novel oral microbe, Desulfobulbus oralis, present in adults with periodontitis, an advanced gum disease that affects nearly half of all adults worldwide.
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have conducted a series of breakthrough experimental and computational studies that cast doubt on a 40-year-old theory describing how polymers in plastic materials behave during processing.