Stricter federal diesel emissions standards to take effect in 2007 will require a more accurate reading of the chemical makeup of truck exhaust and emissions. Engineers at the National Transportation Research Center a user facility of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have...
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are setting up for some cataclysmic number crunching. Data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider's PHENIX detector, located at Brookhaven Laboratory in New York, will be piped to East Tennessee, where ORNL physicists will search for a handful of signif...
By devising a method to confine molecules within individual pores of silicon dioxide, A.C. Buchanan and Phil Britt have perhaps unlocked the key to advances in better control over chemical reactions used in the manufacture of thousands of industrial products. Buchanan and Britt, members of Oak Ridge...
Advanced heat pumps and refrigeration units for residential, commercial and industrial users will be among the technologies showcased at the 8th International Energy Agency Heat Pump Conference May 30 through June 2 at Caesars Palace. More than 400 representatives from the Department of Energy, Oak ...
High-resolution three-dimensional images gained with a new specialized instrument will provide insight into the relationship between materials microstructure, processing conditions and nuclear fuel performance. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Gene Ice, Eliot Specht and John Hunn of the Metals & Cera...
Kevin Harvick's NASCAR victory Sunday at the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway was helped with technical assistance provided by the High Temperature Materials Laboratory of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.HTML Director Arvid Pasto said the assistance his lab provided ...
Gasoline prices are high, but not nearly high enough to curb demand, a fuel economy specialist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory says.
David Greene says that even if gas reached $4 per gallon, it would have little effect on how much people drive and how much ga...
Residents of small communities could be better protected with a law enforcement communications system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.ORNL computer software engineer Garvin Morris, a city council member and police commissioner in Harriman, Tennessee, says the system would improve communi...
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will sponsor two one-week Science Explorers camps for elementary and middle school students this summer. The camps will be during the weeks of June 6-10 and June 13-17.
Science Explorers is designed for rising fifth, sixth and seventh grade...
Improving performance of NASCAR circuit race cars is possible through ongoing work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.ORNL scientist Tom Watkins said NASCAR's Richard Childress Racing team, which includes driver Kevin Harvick, received assistance on resolving a valve spring problem prior to last raci...