![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
- (-) Biological Systems (14)
- (-) Computer Science (4)
- Advanced Manufacturing (13)
- Biology and Environment (40)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Building Technologies (3)
- Chemistry and Physics at Interfaces (4)
- Clean Energy (167)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (2)
- Computational Biology (4)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (7)
- Energy Sciences (2)
- Fossil Energy (2)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Functional Materials for Energy (6)
- Fusion and Fission (17)
- Fusion Energy (2)
- Geographic Information Science and Technology (2)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (8)
- Materials (204)
- Materials Characterization (2)
- Materials for Computing (13)
- Materials Synthesis from Atoms to Systems (5)
- Materials Under Extremes (5)
- National Security (24)
- Neutron Science (77)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (24)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Nuclear Systems Technology (1)
- Quantum Condensed Matter (1)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Reactor Technology (1)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (107)
- Transportation Systems (5)
Media Contacts
![Frontier, the fastest supercomputer in the world, provides expansive and energy-efficient power, which gives scientists the capability to train large AI models in a responsible way.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-11/Frontier.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=Xugo8LTI)
ORNL is home to the world's fastest exascale supercomputer, Frontier, which was built in part to facilitate energy-efficient and scalable AI-based algorithms and simulations.
![Spin chains in a quantum system undergo a collective twisting motion as the result of quasiparticles clustering together. Demonstrating this KPZ dynamics concept are pairs of neighboring spins, shown in red, pointing upward in contrast to their peers, in blue, which alternate directions. Credit: Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2021-03/1_full%5B2%5D.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=l8KtOI25)
Using complementary computing calculations and neutron scattering techniques, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories and the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the existence of an elusive type of spin dynamics in a quantum mechanical system.
![Cations between layers of MXene](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-08/Cations_holistic_study_0.png?h=de4bb2b8&itok=gX7Dgpbe)
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel, integrated approach to track energy-transporting ions within an ultra-thin material, which could unlock its energy storage potential leading toward faster charging, longer-lasting devices.
![quantum mechanics to advance a range of technologies including computing, fiber optics and network communication](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-09/2017-P08412_0.jpg?h=b6236d98&itok=ecQNon31)
Three researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will lead or participate in collaborative research projects aimed at harnessing the power of quantum mechanics to advance a range of technologies including computing, fiber optics and network
![EPSP_gene_study2_ORNL.jpg EPSP_gene_study2_ORNL.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/EPSP_gene_study2_ORNL.jpg?itok=3uwX_49J)
For decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function—produce amino acids, which are vital to plant survival and also essential to human diets. But for Wellington Muchero, Meng Xie and their colleagues, this enzyme does more than advertised. They had run a series of experiments on poplar plants that consistently revealed mutations in a structure of the life-sustaining enzyme that was not previously known to exist.
![GWAS SNP Populus trees under study GWAS SNP Populus trees under study](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/GWAS%20SNP%20Populus%20trees%20under%20study.jpg?itok=HxvS6WyD)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released the largest-ever single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset of genetic variations in poplar trees, information useful to plant scientists
![ORNL Image](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/ORNL%20Muchero_Poplar%20gene%20license_0.jpg?itok=qlyg5RLt)
GreenWood Resources has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology based on the discovery of a gene in poplar (Populus trichocarpa) that makes it easier to convert poplar trees into biofuels. GreenWood, a global timberland investment and asset m...
![Default image of ORNL entry sign](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-09/default-thumbnail.jpg?h=553c93cc&itok=N_Kd1DVR)
![Default image of ORNL entry sign](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-09/default-thumbnail.jpg?h=553c93cc&itok=N_Kd1DVR)
A major multinational report on bioenergy and sustainability released Tuesday concludes the sustainable production of bioenergy can be an important tool for addressing climate change. Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab...
![ORNL Image](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/legacy_files/Image%20Library/Main%20Nav/ORNL/News/News%20Releases/2015/2015-P01334_article.jpg?itok=CXmS5P-2)