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Imagine looking down at a yellow carpet and seeing a long, brown, sinuous thread with an occasional knot. That's the picture scientists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) get on a computer screen when using an atomic force microscope (AFM) to image a serpentine...
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Police, security guards and the public may soon be aided and protected, thanks to a miniature video camera project developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers and licensed by Turtle Mountain Communications.Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Division researchers from the Department ...
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Margaret (Peggy) Emmett of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).Emmett, group leader of the Nuclear Code Development Group in the ...
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Mice may have a reputation for being quiet, but they're telling researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) something about the causes of leukemia, lymphoma and other illnesses in people.

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Scientists traditionally use paper notebooks to keep track of their experimental ideas, notes on experimental setups, observations, and research results. These notebooks are kept on book shelves or in file cabinets. Is there a better alternative? Yes, says Al Geist of the Department of ...
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Technology developed at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and other Oak Ridge facilities is making a difference among U.S. industries, recently released statistics show.

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Dr. Fang Peng, a researcher with the Engineering Technology Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), recently received the First Prize Best Paper Award of the Industrial Power Converter Committee at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/ Ind...
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Tim Myrick has been named director of the Environmental Programs office at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).Myrick is responsible for the interface between ORNL and Environmental Management programs administered by Lockheed Martin Energy Systems for DOE.
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Los Angeles County and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are working together to solve water pollution problems caused by urban storm water.Through a five-month cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA), ORNL researchers will use their expertise in e...
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What's the R-value in your walls? The answer used to be simply the R-value of your wall insulation. For standard wood frame construction, determining R-value, or resistance to heat flow, based solely on wall insulation was not too far off. But because of the increasing use of metal frame systems ...