Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (92)
- Advanced Manufacturing (5)
- Biological Systems (2)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Building Technologies (3)
- Clean Energy (132)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Biology (2)
- Computational Engineering (3)
- Computer Science (16)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Functional Materials for Energy (1)
- Fusion and Fission (8)
- Fusion Energy (2)
- Isotopes (6)
- Materials (69)
- Materials for Computing (14)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (33)
- Neutron Science (34)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (9)
- Quantum information Science (8)
- Supercomputing (131)
- Transportation Systems (1)
News Topics
- (-) Artificial Intelligence (9)
- (-) Big Data (9)
- (-) Bioenergy (45)
- (-) Biomedical (16)
- (-) Buildings (2)
- (-) Composites (5)
- (-) Computer Science (19)
- (-) Decarbonization (19)
- (-) Microscopy (10)
- (-) Molten Salt (1)
- (-) Summit (10)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (11)
- Advanced Reactors (1)
- Biology (73)
- Biotechnology (13)
- Chemical Sciences (11)
- Clean Water (11)
- Climate Change (40)
- Coronavirus (13)
- Critical Materials (1)
- Cybersecurity (1)
- Energy Storage (7)
- Environment (89)
- Exascale Computing (4)
- Frontier (3)
- Fusion (1)
- Grid (3)
- High-Performance Computing (20)
- Hydropower (8)
- Isotopes (2)
- Machine Learning (8)
- Materials (12)
- Materials Science (6)
- Mathematics (3)
- Mercury (7)
- Nanotechnology (7)
- National Security (3)
- Net Zero (2)
- Neutron Science (4)
- Nuclear Energy (1)
- Partnerships (5)
- Physics (2)
- Polymers (2)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (2)
- Simulation (14)
- Sustainable Energy (30)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
- Transportation (3)
Media Contacts
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.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and collaborators have discovered that signaling molecules known to trigger symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria are also used by almost all fungi as chemical signals to communicate with each other.
NellOne Therapeutics has licensed a drug delivery system from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that is designed to transport therapeutics directly to cells infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory were part of an international team that collected a treasure trove of data measuring precipitation, air particles, cloud patterns and the exchange of energy between the atmosphere and the sea ice.
Scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory used high-performance computing to create protein models that helped reveal how the outer membrane is tethered to the cell membrane in certain bacteria.
Popular wisdom holds tall, fast-growing trees are best for biomass, but new research by two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories reveals that is only part of the equation.
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.
With the rise of the global pandemic, Omar Demerdash, a Liane B. Russell Distinguished Staff Fellow at ORNL since 2018, has become laser-focused on potential avenues to COVID-19 therapies.
In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.
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