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![ORNL researcher Xiaobing Liu works in the laboratory’s Building Technologies Research and Integration Center. ORNL researcher Xiaobing Liu works in the laboratory’s Building Technologies Research and Integration Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Xiaobing_Liu200.jpg?itok=1Fgav7Fp)
As a boy growing up in China, Xiaobing Liu knew all about Oak Ridge and the World War II Manhattan Project. He had no idea that he would one day work at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Secret City’s successor. Liu is a lead researcher in geothermal heat pump (GHP) techn...
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![A graphic representation of how deep learning is used to extract information from text-based cancer pathology reports. A graphic representation of how deep learning is used to extract information from text-based cancer pathology reports.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/01%20-%20MEDICINE_Deep_Learning_for_Cancer_Research_1.jpg?itok=LU8AkUne)
The development and maturation of automated data tools for cancer research, part of the objectives outlined in the White House’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, could give medical researchers and policymakers an unprecedented view of the U.S. cancer population—at a level of detail typi...
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![ORNL’s Autotune building energy model calibration software, used to inform contractors to make smarter retrofit decisions, created models that beat the industry’s energy efficiency standards. ORNL’s Autotune building energy model calibration software, used to inform contractors to make smarter retrofit decisions, created models that beat the industry’s energy efficiency standards.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/03%20-%20BUILDINGS_Calibrating_Energy_Savings.jpg?itok=NWjszagF)
![By leveraging Titan’s hybrid architecture, a multi-institution research team achieved a 7- to 10-fold increase in code performance for LQCD calculations By leveraging Titan’s hybrid architecture, a multi-institution research team achieved a 7- to 10-fold increase in code performance for LQCD calculations](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/04%20-%20COMPUTING_Faster_Calculations_1.jpg?itok=90c_4p8d)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s ongoing research in molten salt reactors—along with decades of renowned efforts in the field—is bringing nuclear experts together for its second workshop on the new generation of MSRs. The October 4-5 event is organized around the theme of “Moving MS...
![General Mode KPFM uses advanced signal processing and analysis methods to extract local electronic properties directly from a noisy cantilever deflection signal. General Mode KPFM uses advanced signal processing and analysis methods to extract local electronic properties directly from a noisy cantilever deflection signal.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/06%20-%20MATERIALS_Quickly_Gaining_Deep_Insight_3_0.jpg?itok=Yqi4QEIp)
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are harnessing big data capture and analytics to quickly develop deep insight into materials and their dynamics. Their new technique builds on Kelvin probe force microscopy, long used to gather information about electronic properties by “...
![The first-ever 3D printed excavator will include a cab designed by a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student engineering team and printed at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using carbon fiber-reinforced ABS plastic. The first-ever 3D printed excavator will include a cab designed by a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student engineering team and printed at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using carbon fiber-reinforced ABS plastic.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/1%20ORNL_3D-printed_excavator%201_0.jpg?itok=aNsY53b9)
Heavy construction machinery is the focus of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s latest advance in additive manufacturing research. With industry partners and university students, ORNL researchers are designing and producing the world’s first 3D printed excavator, a prototype that w...
![Melissa Allen’s work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is focused on urban infrastructure and atmospheric transport, creating models to determine the effects of temperature and climate changes on human activity. Melissa Allen’s work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is focused on urban infrastructure and atmospheric transport, creating models to determine the effects of temperature and climate changes on human activity.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/allen16-P04600_0.jpg?itok=46CM_3W6)