Filter News
Area of Research
- Advanced Manufacturing (5)
- Biology and Environment (36)
- Clean Energy (81)
- Computer Science (4)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (33)
- Fusion Energy (5)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (5)
- Materials (78)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (11)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (24)
- Neutron Science (27)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (25)
- Quantum information Science (5)
- Supercomputing (52)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Element Discovery (1)
- (-) Grid (42)
- (-) Machine Learning (36)
- (-) Materials Science (104)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (86)
- (-) Quantum Science (57)
- (-) Renewable Energy (2)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (80)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (89)
- Advanced Reactors (19)
- Artificial Intelligence (79)
- Big Data (37)
- Bioenergy (75)
- Biology (82)
- Biomedical (47)
- Biotechnology (19)
- Buildings (36)
- Chemical Sciences (55)
- Clean Water (17)
- Climate Change (76)
- Composites (18)
- Computer Science (149)
- Coronavirus (35)
- Critical Materials (16)
- Cybersecurity (31)
- Decarbonization (68)
- Education (4)
- Emergency (2)
- Energy Storage (76)
- Environment (145)
- Exascale Computing (36)
- Fossil Energy (5)
- Frontier (41)
- Fusion (46)
- High-Performance Computing (73)
- Hydropower (5)
- Isotopes (46)
- ITER (4)
- Materials (101)
- Mathematics (7)
- Mercury (9)
- Microelectronics (3)
- Microscopy (39)
- Molten Salt (3)
- Nanotechnology (46)
- National Security (60)
- Net Zero (11)
- Neutron Science (99)
- Partnerships (45)
- Physics (58)
- Polymers (23)
- Quantum Computing (30)
- Security (23)
- Simulation (40)
- Software (1)
- Space Exploration (15)
- Statistics (2)
- Summit (52)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (7)
- Transportation (57)
Media Contacts
Inspiration often strikes in the unlikeliest of places and for Kaushik Biswas, a mechanical engineer in ORNL’s Building Envelope & Urban Systems Research Group, a moment spent enjoying entertainment led to the idea of developing self-healing vacuum panels for buildings. “I was ...
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are the first to successfully simulate an atomic nucleus using a quantum computer. The results, published in Physical Review Letters, demonstrate the ability of quantum systems to compute nuclear ph...
Raman. Heisenberg. Fermi. Wollan. From Kolkata to Göttingen, Chicago to Oak Ridge. Arnab Banerjee has literally walked in the footsteps of some of the greatest pioneers in physics history—and he’s forging his own trail along the way. Banerjee is a staff scientist working in the Neu...
It may take a village to raise a child, according to the old proverb, but it takes an entire team of highly trained scientists and engineers to install and operate a state-of-the-art, exceptionally complex ion microprobe. Just ask Julie Smith, a nuclear security scientist at the Depa...
Vlastimil Kunc grew up in a family of scientists where his natural curiosity was encouraged—an experience that continues to drive his research today in polymer composite additive manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “I’ve been interested in the science of composites si...
Material surfaces and interfaces may appear flat and void of texture to the naked eye, but a view from the nanoscale reveals an intricate tapestry of atomic patterns that control the reactions between the material and its environment. Electron microscopy allows researchers to probe...
Researchers have long sought electrically conductive materials for economical energy-storage devices. Two-dimensional (2D) ceramics called MXenes are contenders. Unlike most 2D ceramics, MXenes have inherently good conductivity because they are molecular sheets made from the carbides ...
Ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials are made of coated ceramic fibers surrounded by a ceramic matrix. They are tough, lightweight and capable of withstanding temperatures 300–400 degrees F hotter than metal alloys can endure. If certain components were made with CMCs instead o...
With the production of 50 grams of plutonium-238, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have restored a U.S. capability dormant for nearly 30 years and set the course to provide power for NASA and other missions.