An instrument that can detect tiny (nano) explosions could lead to a hand-held instrument to screen people and luggage at airports or to detect land mines. The technology is based on miniature micro-machined silicon cantilevers one-tenth the width of a human hair that can detect tiny forces caused b...
Two researchers in the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been named fellows by the American Physical Society. They are Dr. Steven Paul Hirshman of ORNL's Fusion Energy Division and Dr. Gene Ice of the Metals and Ceramics Division. Hirshman was honored for his many...
Tougaloo College of Jackson, Miss., will host the 2000 Mississippi Science Bowl Saturday, Feb. 19, in partnership with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The Science Bowl is a fast-paced competition that offers teams of high school students a...
Sherry Bartley Wright, project coordinator for Global Change and Developing Country Programs at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was presented an international trophy by the International Energy Agency (IEA) for the third time in the last four years.
Armed with an automated weigh-in-motion system being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S. military forces could increase mobility and decrease mistakes when loading vehicles on transport planes and ships.ORNL plans to develop and demonstrate technology ...
Tiny defects in the surface of common material - from silicon to steel - determine the properties of material and how it can be used. Unfortunately, many of these pores, called vacancies, are so small they cannot be accurately measured.
In the past, measurement of vacancies has seriously limited ...
Solar energy could get a megaboost, effectively gaining a threefold improvement over conventional technology, with a system being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).The "full-spectrum solar energy system" harnesses the clean and abundant energy found in sun...
Dr. Rusi Teleyarkhan, group leader and program manager in the Engineering and Technology Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been elected a fellow by the board of directors of the American Nuclear Society.
Dr. Robert Lauf, group leader in the Metals and Ceramics Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been named 1999's Tennessee Industrial Scientist of the Year.
Bill Schwenterly, research staffer in the Fusion Energy Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed associate editor for the journal Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.The journal is published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic En...