Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (20)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (52)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (20)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Fusion and Fission (17)
- Fusion Energy (5)
- Materials for Computing (1)
- National Security (5)
- Neutron Science (3)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (10)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Supercomputing (25)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (1)
- (-) Bioenergy (2)
- (-) Composites (2)
- (-) Fusion (3)
- (-) Physics (13)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Big Data (2)
- Biomedical (2)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (8)
- Clean Water (2)
- Computer Science (8)
- Coronavirus (1)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (7)
- Environment (6)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Grid (2)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Isotopes (6)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials (20)
- Materials Science (22)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (8)
- Nanotechnology (10)
- Neutron Science (10)
- Nuclear Energy (10)
- Partnerships (3)
- Polymers (5)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Security (1)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Summit (1)
- Sustainable Energy (2)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (2)
- Transportation (4)
Media Contacts
Marcel Demarteau is director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For topics from nuclear structure to astrophysics, he shapes ORNL’s physics research agenda.
Systems biologist Paul Abraham uses his fascination with proteins, the molecular machines of nature, to explore new ways to engineer more productive ecosystems and hardier bioenergy crops.
In the search to create materials that can withstand extreme radiation, Yanwen Zhang, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, says that materials scientists must think outside the box.
Scientists at the Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL have their eyes on the prize: the Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR, a microreactor built using 3D printing and other new approaches that will be up and running by 2023.
In the Physics Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, James (“Mitch”) Allmond conducts experiments and uses theoretical models to advance our understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei, which are made of various combinations of protons and neutrons (nucleons).
Scientists at have experimentally demonstrated a novel cryogenic, or low temperature, memory cell circuit design based on coupled arrays of Josephson junctions, a technology that may be faster and more energy efficient than existing memory devices.
More than 1800 years ago, Chinese astronomers puzzled over the sudden appearance of a bright “guest star” in the sky, unaware that they were witnessing the cosmic forge of a supernova, an event repeated countless times scattered across the universe.
Leah Broussard, a physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has so much fun exploring the neutron that she alternates between calling it her “laboratory” and “playground” for understanding the universe. “The neutron is special,” she said of the sub...
Carbon fiber composites—lightweight and strong—are great structural materials for automobiles, aircraft and other transportation vehicles. They consist of a polymer matrix, such as epoxy, into which reinforcing carbon fibers have been embedded. Because of differences in the mecha...
The materials inside a fusion reactor must withstand one of the most extreme environments in science, with temperatures in the thousands of degrees Celsius and a constant bombardment of neutron radiation and deuterium and tritium, isotopes of hydrogen, from the volatile plasma at th...