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![The Frontier supercomputer simulated magnetic responses inside calcium-48, depicted by red and blue spheres. Insights into the nucleus’s fundamental forces could shed light on supernova dynamics.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-09/Nova%20Nucleus%20v2.jpg?h=2d44e782&itok=YlbsTzRG)
Nuclear physicists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently used Frontier, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, to calculate the magnetic properties of calcium-48’s atomic nucleus.
![Illustration of oscillating UCI3 bonds](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-09/Picture6dgf.jpg?h=67788074&itok=n5RASOUW)
Researchers for the first time documented the specific chemistry dynamics and structure of high-temperature liquid uranium trichloride salt, a potential nuclear fuel source for next-generation reactors.
![ORNL researchers Tom Beck, left, Sarp Oral and Rafael Ferreira da Silva have proposed a strategy for integrating classical supercomputers such as Frontier, the world’s first exascale computer, with the emerging field of quantum computing.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/BeckOralSilvaMain_0.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=53p41Ylx)
A study by more than a dozen scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory examines potential strategies to integrate quantum computing with the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems in the pursuit of science.
![Jeremiah Sewell](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/2023-P10892.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=nr9xd3j7)
Jeremiah Sewell leads a team at ORNL, working on xenon-129 production for lung imaging. Reflecting on his career, Sewell views each opportunity as a "door" he steps through, leveraging over 25 years of experience in nuclear power and centrifuge operations to advance the facility’s mission.
![Debjani Singh](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/2024-P12408.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=zFo2oivw)
Debjani Singh, a senior scientist at ORNL, leads the HydroSource project, which enhances hydropower research by making water data more accessible and useful. With a background in water resources, data science, and earth science, Singh applies innovative tools like AI to advance research. Her career, shaped by her early exposure to science in India, focuses on bridging research with practical applications.
![Weyl semimetal](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/Picture4.jpg?h=b38bf506&itok=dUHD6CQU)
At ORNL, a group of scientists used neutron scattering techniques to investigate a relatively new functional material called a Weyl semimetal. These Weyl fermions move very quickly in a material and can carry electrical charge at room temperature. Scientists think that Weyl semimetals, if used in future electronics, could allow electricity to flow more efficiently and enable more energy-efficient computers and other electronic devices.
![Benjamin Manard](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/2021-P08328.jpg?h=8f0b2d98&itok=ZKVil-VE)
Benjamin Manard, an analytical chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will receive the 2024 Lester W. Strock Award from the Society of Applied Spectroscopy.
![The seven entrepreneurs for Cohort 2024](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/ICCohort2024.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=LtRT6jzo)
Seven entrepreneurs comprise the next cohort of Innovation Crossroads, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program node based at ORNL. The program provides energy-related startup founders from across the nation with access to ORNL’s unique scientific resources and capabilities, as well as connect them with experts, mentors and networks to accelerate their efforts to take their world-changing ideas to the marketplace.
![Image with a grey and black backdrop - in front is a diamond with two circles coming out from it, showing the insides.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/thumbnail_OLCF_BC8.jpg?h=b5b1176d&itok=LE-EYtQH)
The world’s fastest supercomputer helped researchers simulate synthesizing a material harder and tougher than a diamond — or any other substance on Earth. The study used Frontier to predict the likeliest strategy to synthesize such a material, thought to exist so far only within the interiors of giant exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
![Dmytro Bykov, left, and Hector Corzo participate in a value proposition development exercise as part Energy I-Corps](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/ICorps18a.jpg?h=92704f59&itok=58Y6bvrB)
Two ORNL teams recently completed Cohort 18 of Energy I-Corps, an immersive two-month training program where the scientists define their technology’s value propositions, conduct stakeholder discovery interviews and develop viable market pathways.