Artificial intelligence tools secure tomorrow’s electric grid
A study of the American woodcock and birds of prey will be the theme of the first spring nature walk of 2016 on the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26.
Limited to 30 participants, including children, the n...
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Feb. 10, 2016 – Yilu Liu, the Governor’s Chair for Power Grids, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. The Governor’s Chair is a joint appointment at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee.
Being elected to the aca...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will support two new DOE-funded projects to explore, develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear reactor technologies. The projects announced Jan. 15 will allow industry-led teams with participan...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center are looking beyond the usual suspects in the search for microbes that can efficiently break down inedible plant matter for conversion to biofuels. A new comparative study from the Oak Ridge National La...
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and SCIEX of Framingham, Mass., have signed a licensing agreement for technologies that speed up, simplify and expand the use of analytic chemistry equipment. SCIEX is a leading manufacturer of mass spectrome...
Battery-powered toys, radios, and portable electronic devices make fun Christmas gifts - until the batteries run down.
Stephen Pennycook, a UT-Battelle corporate fellow and group leader in the Condensed Matter Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was honored tonight as the recipient of the UT-Battelle 2005 Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology during the laboratory's Awards Night ceremony at the Knoxville Convention Center.
About 500 Tennessee middle school students will be competing in the state's sixth annual FIRST Lego League competition Saturday in Cookeville, where students use their designed and programmed autonomous robots to perform required tasks on a table.Tournament co-director Brad Weil of the Departm...
Improved tools and increasingly sophisticated approaches are helping researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a better understanding of how organisms respond to and interact with their environment.
A $50,000 grant from UT-Battelle to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee has helped restock food supplies to the agency after it donated much of its previous supply to victims of Hurricane Katrina.