![Sphere that has the top right fourth removed (exposed) Colors from left are orange, dark blue with orange dots, light blue with horizontal lines, then black. Inside the exposure is green and black with boxes.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_square_large/public/2024-06/slicer.jpg?h=56311bf6&itok=bCZz09pJ)
Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (11)
- (-) Fusion and Fission (5)
- (-) Fusion Energy (1)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Clean Energy (39)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (3)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials (34)
- Materials for Computing (5)
- National Security (17)
- Neutron Science (44)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (6)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Sensors and Controls (1)
- Supercomputing (31)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (5)
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (3)
- (-) Biomedical (5)
- (-) Cybersecurity (1)
- (-) Neutron Science (3)
- (-) Security (2)
- (-) Transportation (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (7)
- Big Data (1)
- Bioenergy (9)
- Biology (18)
- Biotechnology (5)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (10)
- Climate Change (7)
- Composites (3)
- Computer Science (6)
- Coronavirus (7)
- Critical Materials (1)
- Decarbonization (3)
- Energy Storage (6)
- Environment (15)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Fusion (10)
- Grid (2)
- High-Performance Computing (5)
- Isotopes (2)
- ITER (2)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials (10)
- Materials Science (7)
- Microscopy (4)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (6)
- National Security (1)
- Net Zero (1)
- Nuclear Energy (13)
- Partnerships (7)
- Physics (1)
- Polymers (1)
- Simulation (5)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Summit (3)
- Sustainable Energy (5)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
Media Contacts
![Distinguished Inventors](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-12/inventors.jpg?h=4631f1c1&itok=xhAGY0kv)
Six scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were named Battelle Distinguished Inventors, in recognition of obtaining 14 or more patents during their careers at the lab.
![David Kropaczek](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-11/2016-P07859_0.jpg?h=49ab6177&itok=nsklImHq)
David Kropaczek, director of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, or CASL, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a fellow of the American Nuclear Society.
![An organic solvent and water separate and form nanoclusters on the hydrophobic and hydrophilic sections of plant material, driving the efficient deconstruction of biomass. Credit: Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-11/dark_image_small.png?h=2e111cc1&itok=drKqW05b)
Experiments led by researchers at ORNL have determined that several hepatitis C drugs can inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, a crucial protein enzyme that enables the novel coronavirus to reproduce.
![Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced by the body’s response to SARS-CoV-2. Credit: Jason B. Smith/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-07/cells%20200%5B1%5D.png?h=b95f6d72&itok=V2OxqL5l)
A team led by Dan Jacobson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer at ORNL to analyze genes from cells in the lung fluid of nine COVID-19 patients compared with 40 control patients.
![Coronavirus research](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-03/still_original.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=0Md1n6Ct)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used Summit, the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, to identify 77 small-molecule drug compounds that might warrant further study in the fight
![Cropped INFUSE logo](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-10/INFUSE_logo_cropped_0_0.jpg?h=99840d57&itok=4ca76j9U)
The U.S. Department of Energy announced funding for 12 projects with private industry to enable collaboration with DOE national laboratories on overcoming challenges in fusion energy development.