![Sphere that has the top right fourth removed (exposed) Colors from left are orange, dark blue with orange dots, light blue with horizontal lines, then black. Inside the exposure is green and black with boxes.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_square_large/public/2024-06/slicer.jpg?h=56311bf6&itok=bCZz09pJ)
Filter News
Area of Research
News Type
News Topics
Media Contacts
![A simulation of combustion within two adjacent gas turbine combustors. GE researchers are incorporating advanced combustion modeling and simulation into product testing after developing a breakthrough methodology on the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer. A simulation of combustion within two adjacent gas turbine combustors. GE researchers are incorporating advanced combustion modeling and simulation into product testing after developing a breakthrough methodology on the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/ge_pic_large.jpg?itok=GVckNkST)
In the United States, the use of natural gas for electricity generation continues to grow. The driving forces behind this development? A boom in domestic natural gas production, historically low prices, and increased scrutiny over fossil fuels’ carbon emissions. Though coal still acco...
![Department of Energy national lab researchers found strain dramatically influences low-temperature oxygen electrocatalysis on perovskite oxides, enhancing bifunctional activity essential for fuel cells and metal–air batteries. Department of Energy national lab researchers found strain dramatically influences low-temperature oxygen electrocatalysis on perovskite oxides, enhancing bifunctional activity essential for fuel cells and metal–air batteries.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/bifunctional%20catalysis-Lee.jpg?itok=U0L_rWaH)
Catalysts make chemical reactions more likely to occur. In most cases, a catalyst that’s good at driving chemical reactions in one direction is bad at driving reactions in the opposite direction. However, a research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...
![A 3D structure of the HIV-1 protease in cartoon representation with bound clinical drug darunavir (shown as sticks). A 3D structure of the HIV-1 protease in cartoon representation with bound clinical drug darunavir (shown as sticks).](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/16-G00322_Feature_Kovalevsky_ornlStory.jpg?itok=zB1CTsDr)
![The silo-shaped tower for the 25-megavolt Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator also serves as an ORNL landmark. The silo-shaped tower for the 25-megavolt Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator also serves as an ORNL landmark.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/holnt11-P02495.jpg?itok=_zGMhrTA)
![SuperORRUBA detectors like the one being connected by ORNL researcher Kelly Chipps will play a big role in the JENSA experiment at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. (ORNL photo by Jason Richards)](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2016-P02067.jpg?h=b6236d98&itok=AGcZ7R8h)
Physicists studying stellar explosions, the origin of life and just about everything in between could gain light years in precision because of a system inspired by a team led by Kelly Chipps of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As the sophistication of rad...
![Interpreting the results of collision induced dissociation (CID) experiments, simulations on Titan predict the formation of an unusually bonded uranium-nitrosyl molecule. Credit: J. Am. Chem. Society. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02420 Interpreting the results of collision induced dissociation (CID) experiments, simulations on Titan predict the formation of an unusually bonded uranium-nitrosyl molecule. Credit: J. Am. Chem. Society. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02420](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Dixon%20image%5B6%5D.jpg?itok=2iNMzLU7)
![ORNL’s developed the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) demonstration that utilizes clean energy and renewables, representing a potential energy efficient home of the future. (ORNL photo) ORNL’s developed the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) demonstration that utilizes clean energy and renewables, representing a potential energy efficient home of the future. (ORNL photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2015-P06794.jpg?itok=R5GHSb86)
Earth Day 2016 is observed Friday, April 22 and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is hosting a number of programs and activities throughout the week to promote enhanced environmental quality through greater energy efficiency and clean energy,...
![Sturgeon](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2011-P00241.jpg?itok=oI5-B-gl)
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are taking a closer look at how sturgeon, a prehistoric — and now imperiled — group of fish species may better be helped to get around the dams that block their migrations. Hydropower is a major renewable ener...
![In unbound calyx[4]pyrrole, two pyrrole “petals” are flipped up and two, down. In unbound calyx[4]pyrrole, two pyrrole “petals” are flipped up and two, down.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/anion_hr5_0.jpg?itok=sGtLzH0E)
Atomic charges in chemical solutions are like Switzerland—they strive for neutrality. The tendency to balance charges drives dynamics when charged atoms or molecules, called ions, are present in solutions. Recently, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laborat...
![ORNL Image](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/unilamellar_lipid.png?itok=QeapqrqG)