Polyphase wireless power transfer system achieves 270-kilowatt charge, s...
With eight cabinets, 256 processors and 3.2 teraflops (3.2 trillion calculations per second) of computing power, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray X1 is the largest of its type in the world. Add that total to the lab's IBM Cheetah with 4.5 teraflops, the SGI Ram with 1.5 teraflops and the IBM Eag...
The Small Business Administration has presented its Award of Distinction to the Small Business Program office of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Will Minter, ORNL's small business program manager, was commended for his strong support of the company's small busi...
It cost a family of four living in a next-generation Habitat for Humanity house just 82 cents a day in total energy bills, and the project continues to gain momentum. The house boasts impressive air tightness in addition to an advanced ventilation system that controls mold, mildew and moisture. A ma...
Military personnel loading military cargo planes with trucks and material can speed up the process and reduce the chances for mistakes with weigh-in-motion technology being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dave Beshears of the lab's Engineering Science and Technology Division notes that t...
Anthrax and other potentially deadly biological agents pose considerable threats to the military and the public, but Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers think they have a quick and safe cure. In a matter of seconds, the ultraviolet portion of an arc plasma lamp can kill the bacteria because it...
Within a couple of years, patients may have their test results for the AIDS virus, cancer, tuberculosis or other diseases before they leave the doctor's office.
Two researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are among 60 recipients of the 1997 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The awards are the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers begi...
Dr. William E. Doll of the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been elected president-elect of the Near Surface Geophysics Section (NSGS) of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).Doll will serve a one-year term as pre...
A symposium in honor of 50 years of mammalian genetics research at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be held beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7 at ORNL's Wigner Auditorium.Mammalian genetics research in Oak Ridge began in November 1947 when Dr. William Russe...
Dr. Tony Gabriel of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), will present "Spallation Neutron Source - Overview of Target Systems," during a showcase lecture at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13 in ORNL's Wigner Auditorium.Gabriel is the director of the target systems for the N...