Highway maintenance crews battle icy roads by salting them. But how much salt should be sprinkled on the ice to melt it as quickly as possible? Moonis Ally of ORNL can provide the answer in a few minutes using a personal computer program he helped to write.
Doctors who rely on tests that monitor brain activity of their patients could one day benefit from a new battery developed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and licensed to Teledyne Electronic Technologies.
Writers and editors putting together the next generation of science textbooks may be scurrying over the next few years to include a finding that sheds new light on photosynthesis, the world of green plants that supports all life on Earth.Scientists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge Nati...
Dr. Frances E. Sharples has been appointed deputy director of the Center for Risk Management at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She is head of the Environmental Analyses Section of the Environmental Sciences Division at ORNL.The Risk Management Center is an in...
Dr. Virginia H. Dale, associate director of the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been elected member-at-large of the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America.
Aircraft are frequently struck by lightning in flight or damaged in service by extreme heat exposure. How can potential structural damage from these incidents be detected?.Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a method of imaging heat-in...
Dr. Patrick J. Mulholland, a senior research staff member in the Environmental Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been named chair of the Executive Committee of the North American Benthological Society for 1995-96.The society is devoted t...
Dr. Alvin W. Trivelpiece, director of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), on Friday, July 28, honored the laboratory's top divisions and programs of the past year.
John S. Wassom, group leader of the Human Genome and Toxicology Group at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been appointed to chair two committees of the Environmental Mutagen Society: the Communications and Archives Committee and the Technical Committee. He ...