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![ORNL researcher Brian Williams prepares for a demonstration of a quantum key distribution system. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-03/Picture1_0.jpg?h=e4f440a4&itok=5uAWjLhR)
An experiment by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated advanced quantum-based cybersecurity can be realized in a deployed fiber link.
![The operating phases of an eVTOL need varying amounts of power; some require the battery to discharge high amounts of current rapidly, reducing the distance the vehicle can travel before its battery must be recharged. Credit: Andy Sproles/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-03/evtol3.jpg?h=748d7e9c&itok=0-VbL5G5)
Researchers at ORNL are taking cleaner transportation to the skies by creating and evaluating new batteries for airborne electric vehicles that take off and land vertically.
![ORNL’s Kate Evans has been awarded the 2024 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth Prize.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-03/Evans_SIAM.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=2lgbSBjY)
Kate Evans, director for the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at ORNL, has been awarded the 2024 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth Prize.
![Anuj Kapadia](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-03/kapadia.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=M4gtR_dd)
Anuj J. Kapadia, who heads the Advanced Computing Methods for Health Sciences Section at ORNL, has been elected as president of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
![Instantaneous solution quantities shown for a static Mach 1.4 solution on a mesh consisting of 33 billion elements using 33,880 GPUs, or 90% of Frontier. From left to right, contours show the mass fractions of the hydroxyl radical and H2O, the temperature in Kelvin, and the local Mach number. Credit: Gabriel Nastac/NASA](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-02/static_fine.png?h=f3b6c815&itok=4rgMEnKZ)
Since 2019, a team of NASA scientists and their partners have been using NASA’s FUN3D software on supercomputers located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to conduct computational fluid dynamics simulations of a human-scale Mars lander. The team’s ongoing research project is a first step in determining how to safely land a vehicle with humans onboard onto the surface of Mars.
![ORNL](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-02/53513409869_10ff1eb2d4_k.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=3CjbVfyQ)
Two different teams that included Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees were honored Feb. 20 with Secretary’s Honor Achievement Awards from the Department of Energy. This is DOE's highest form of employee recognition.
![Moriano awarded early career fellowship for underrepresented groups](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-02/Pablo-Moriano-Pic.jpg?h=4d38fa4a&itok=QTrNiMK-)
Pablo Moriano, a research scientist in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at ORNL, was selected as a member of the 2024 Class of MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellows.
![ORNL's Kyle Gluesenkamp received the FLC Outstanding Researcher Award.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-01/gluesenkamp1_0.jpg?h=319b3f54&itok=kpelvP3i)
Four ORNL teams and one researcher were recognized for excellence in technology transfer and technology transfer innovation.
![ORNL’s Tomás Rush examines a culture as part of his research into the plant-fungus relationship that can help or hinder ecosystem health. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-01/2022-p09834_0.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=iHPtg7RM)
New computational framework speeds discovery of fungal metabolites, key to plant health and used in drug therapies and for other uses.
![Susan Hubbard, left, deputy for science and technology at ORNL, and Vanessa Chan, director of the Office of Technology Transitions and chief commercialization officer for DOE, discuss the role of the national laboratory system in moving leading-edge technology to industry during a chat at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. Credit: Karen Dunlap/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-01/ces1.jpg?h=bade9d47&itok=Me9qsbIx)
Technology Transfer staff from Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory attended the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, in Las Vegas, Jan. 8–12.