Polyphase wireless power transfer system achieves 270-kilowatt charge, s...
East Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings released today.
Retired U.S. Army Major Gen. Warren Edwards told an Oak Ridge National Laboratory Veterans Day audience Wednesday that military personnel acted heroically in response to the recent Fort Hood shooting. "You see soldiers who have been put in unanticipated stressful situations in places they
David Cole, a group leader in the Chemical Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has earned the UT-Battelle Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology.
Activities that are saving water and helping the environment have earned UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory, honors from the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Climate scientists recognize that climate modeling projections include a significant level of uncertainty. A team of researchers using computing facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has identified a new method for quantifying this uncertainty.
The new approach sug...
For the first time, climate scientists from across the country have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model forecasts about global warming.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host the fourth annual Global Venture Challenge on March 24-26, 2010.
Global Venture Challenge 2010 is a unique educational event which brings together graduate student teams around the world to present entrepreneurial compa...
The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, a major component of U.S. contributions to the ITER Project. ITER's Toroidal Field M...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided tours of the laboratory for more than 5,000 visitors in 2009, an increase of nearly 50 percent over the previous year. The number of visitors to the laboratory was the largest since the world's fair in 1982.
Knoxville, Tenn, Oct. 1, 2009 Mercury pollution is a persistent problem in the environment. Human activity has lead to increasingly large accumulations of the toxic chemical, especially in waterways, where fish and shellfish tend to act as sponges for the heavy metal. A new discovery by scienti...