![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
- (-) Clean Energy (69)
- (-) Materials (51)
- (-) Neutron Science (19)
- Advanced Manufacturing (8)
- Biology and Environment (26)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computer Science (1)
- Fusion and Fission (2)
- Isotopes (1)
- Materials for Computing (5)
- National Security (14)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (4)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Supercomputing (25)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (34)
- (-) Climate Change (8)
- (-) Composites (6)
- (-) Cybersecurity (5)
- (-) Environment (18)
- (-) Microscopy (12)
- (-) Physics (16)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (25)
- (-) Transportation (19)
- Advanced Reactors (3)
- Artificial Intelligence (6)
- Big Data (2)
- Bioenergy (17)
- Biology (10)
- Biomedical (8)
- Biotechnology (3)
- Buildings (8)
- Chemical Sciences (20)
- Clean Water (1)
- Computer Science (15)
- Coronavirus (9)
- Critical Materials (10)
- Decarbonization (11)
- Energy Storage (36)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (3)
- Fusion (3)
- Grid (10)
- High-Performance Computing (5)
- Isotopes (5)
- ITER (1)
- Machine Learning (5)
- Materials (46)
- Materials Science (43)
- Mercury (1)
- Molten Salt (2)
- Nanotechnology (23)
- National Security (5)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (42)
- Nuclear Energy (5)
- Partnerships (11)
- Polymers (9)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Quantum Science (11)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (4)
- Simulation (1)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Summit (5)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
Media Contacts
![Radu Custelcean's sustainable chemistry for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-06/2023-P06089.png?h=82f92a78&itok=807v0WXR)
An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at ORNL for capturing carbon dioxide has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide
![Rigoberto Advincula](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-06/2020-P08153.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=J1Xib1hr)
Rigoberto Advincula, a renowned scientist at ORNL and professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee, has won the Netzsch North American Thermal Analysis Society Fellows Award for 2023.
![ORNL researchers Michael Smith, Steven Pain and Kelly Chipps use JENSA, a unique gas jet system, for laboratory studies of nuclear reactions that also occur in neutron stars in binary systems. Credit: Steven Pain/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-05/20160213_182909aa.jpg?h=5c7e1372&itok=p13IVvRC)
Led by Kelly Chipps of ORNL, scientists working in the lab have produced a signature nuclear reaction that occurs on the surface of a neutron star gobbling mass from a companion star. Their achievement improves understanding of stellar processes generating diverse nuclear isotopes.
![Kelly Chipps of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been appointed to the Nuclear Sciences Advisory Committee, which advises the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-05/2023-P04798_1.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=YXG6JZyW)
Kelly Chipps, a nuclear astrophysicist at ORNL, has been appointed to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, or NSAC. The committee provides official advice to DOE and the National Science Foundation, or NSF, about issues relating to the national program for basic nuclear science research.
![Robert Wagner](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-04/wagner.png?h=564c27f4&itok=cfPXByG6)
SAE International has awarded ORNL Buildings and Transportation Science Division Director Robert Wagner with the SAE Medal of Honor for his dedication and support of the organization’s mission of advancing mobility solutions.
![Andrew Lupini](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-04/lupini.png?h=181bc054&itok=c-ov-WoV)
Andrew Lupini, a scientist and inventor at ORNL, has been elected Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America.
![Jason Gardner, Sandra Davern and Peter Thornton have been elected fellows of AAAS. Credit: Laddy Fields/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-02/AAAS_2022%20Thumbnail_0.png?h=b6717701&itok=4TftuioC)
Three scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.
![Merlin Theodore](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-01/theodore.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=9ch50wSj)
Merlin Theodore is one of eight new board members announced by President Biden; she will join the 25-member board for a six-year term.
![Paul Langan will oversee ORNL's research directorate focused on biological and environmental systems science. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-12/2019-P15617_0.jpg?h=bf9cb32e&itok=4n50VPVf)
Paul Langan will join ORNL in the spring as associate laboratory director for the Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate.
![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. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-12/InventorWinners_0.png?h=b6717701&itok=MO7KGBMz)
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.