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![VENUS, slated for user beamtime next fall, dons ORNL green to symbolize involvement from scientists and researchers across ORNL.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/VENUS%20from%20above%20with%20punch_0.jpg?h=6f8e8448&itok=jqIbvtLF)
DOE commissioned a neutron imaging instrument, VENUS, at the Spallation Neutron Source in July. VENUS instrument scientists will use AI to deliver 3D models to researchers in half the time it typically takes.
![Weyl semimetal](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/Picture4.jpg?h=b38bf506&itok=dUHD6CQU)
At ORNL, a group of scientists used neutron scattering techniques to investigate a relatively new functional material called a Weyl semimetal. These Weyl fermions move very quickly in a material and can carry electrical charge at room temperature. Scientists think that Weyl semimetals, if used in future electronics, could allow electricity to flow more efficiently and enable more energy-efficient computers and other electronic devices.
![Students listen as ORNL instrument scientist Hanyu Wang explains the intricacies of the LIQREF instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/2024-P14425.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=4mINtyca)
The 26th annual National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering School concluded on August 9, 2024. Each year, more than 200 graduate students in North America studying physics, chemistry, engineering, biological matter and more compete to participate in NXS. However, given limited space, only 60 can be accepted. The school exposes graduate students to neutron and X-ray scattering techniques through lectures, experiments, and tutorials.
![The seven entrepreneurs for Cohort 2024](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/ICCohort2024.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=LtRT6jzo)
Seven entrepreneurs comprise the next cohort of Innovation Crossroads, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program node based at ORNL. The program provides energy-related startup founders from across the nation with access to ORNL’s unique scientific resources and capabilities, as well as connect them with experts, mentors and networks to accelerate their efforts to take their world-changing ideas to the marketplace.
![Image with a grey and black backdrop - in front is a diamond with two circles coming out from it, showing the insides.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/thumbnail_OLCF_BC8.jpg?h=b5b1176d&itok=LE-EYtQH)
The world’s fastest supercomputer helped researchers simulate synthesizing a material harder and tougher than a diamond — or any other substance on Earth. The study used Frontier to predict the likeliest strategy to synthesize such a material, thought to exist so far only within the interiors of giant exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
![Dmytro Bykov, left, and Hector Corzo participate in a value proposition development exercise as part Energy I-Corps](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/ICorps18a.jpg?h=92704f59&itok=58Y6bvrB)
Two ORNL teams recently completed Cohort 18 of Energy I-Corps, an immersive two-month training program where the scientists define their technology’s value propositions, conduct stakeholder discovery interviews and develop viable market pathways.
![Researcher Brittany Rodriguez works with an ORNL-developed Additive Manufacturing/Compression Molding system that 3D prints large-scale, high-volume parts made from lightweight composites. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/Rodriguez%20profile%20photo%202.jpg?h=b3660f0d&itok=GjSV8Zyr)
Brittany Rodriguez never imagined she would pursue a science career at a Department of Energy national laboratory. However, after some encouraging words from her mother, input from key mentors at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, or UTRGV, and a lot of hard work, Rodriguez landed at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The contract will be awarded to develop the newest high-performance computing system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility.
![Woman is standing at podium holding a gavel in the air.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-06/pilat%20gavel.jpg?h=be858193&itok=pRQmFpBz)
In May, the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Brookhaven national laboratories co-hosted the 15th annual International Particle Accelerator Conference, or IPAC, at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
![Rectangular box being lifted by a red pully system up the left side of the building](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-06/SHoP%20Architects_461%20Dean%20Street_edited%20%282%29.jpg?h=0764f6ae&itok=nOl5Tget)
Researchers at ORNL and the University of Maine have designed and 3D-printed a single-piece, recyclable natural-material floor panel tested to be strong enough to replace construction materials like steel.