Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Clean Energy (84)
- Advanced Manufacturing (5)
- Biology and Environment (19)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computer Science (1)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (2)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Fusion and Fission (24)
- Fusion Energy (4)
- Isotopes (19)
- Materials (36)
- Materials for Computing (5)
- National Security (22)
- Neutron Science (10)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (20)
- Supercomputing (34)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (33)
- (-) Big Data (2)
- (-) Buildings (13)
- (-) Coronavirus (7)
- (-) Cybersecurity (6)
- (-) Grid (14)
- (-) Isotopes (1)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (3)
- (-) Security (3)
- (-) Transportation (22)
- Advanced Reactors (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (5)
- Bioenergy (13)
- Biology (6)
- Biomedical (3)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Chemical Sciences (7)
- Clean Water (3)
- Climate Change (10)
- Composites (4)
- Computer Science (10)
- Critical Materials (1)
- Decarbonization (16)
- Energy Storage (30)
- Environment (26)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (1)
- Fusion (1)
- High-Performance Computing (4)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials (13)
- Materials Science (10)
- Mathematics (1)
- Mercury (1)
- Microelectronics (1)
- Microscopy (4)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (6)
- National Security (1)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (3)
- Partnerships (5)
- Physics (1)
- Polymers (3)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Simulation (2)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Summit (2)
- Sustainable Energy (19)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
Media Contacts
Researchers at ORNL are helping modernize power management and enhance reliability in an increasingly complex electric grid.
Seven scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named Battelle Distinguished Inventors, in recognition of their obtaining 14 or more patents during their careers at the lab.
Stor4Build is a new consortium focused on energy storage for buildings that will accelerate the growth, optimization and deployment of storage technologies.
Materials scientist Denise Antunes da Silva researches ways to reduce concrete’s embodied carbon in the Sustainable Building Materials Laboratory at ORNL, a research space dedicated to studying environmentally friendly building materials. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
A crowd of investors and supporters turned out for last week’s Innovation Crossroads Showcase at the Knoxville Chamber as part of Innov865 Week. Sponsored by ORNL and the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council, the event celebrated deep-tech entrepreneurs and the Oak Ridge Corridor as a growing energy innovation hub for the nation.
When Bill Partridge started working with industry partner Cummins in 1997, he was a postdoctoral researcher specializing in applied optical diagnostics and new to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their technologies have received seven 2022 R&D 100 Awards, plus special recognition for a battery-related green technology product.
Burak Ozpineci, a Corporate Fellow and section head for Vehicle and Mobility Systems Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is one of six international recipients of the eighth Nagamori Award.
What’s getting Jim Szybist fired up these days? It’s the opportunity to apply his years of alternative fuel combustion and thermodynamics research to the challenge of cleaning up the hard-to-decarbonize, heavy-duty mobility sector — from airplanes to locomotives to ships and massive farm combines.
It’s been referenced in Popular Science and Newsweek, cited in the Economic Report of the President, and used by agencies to create countless federal regulations.