Whether for stopping cars or bullets, titanium is the material of choice, but it has always been too expensive for all but the most specialized applications. That could change, however, with a non-melt consolidation process being developed by ORNL and industry partners. The new processing technique could reduce the amount of energy required and the cost to make titanium parts from powders by up to 50 percent.
Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range of sciences.
1) ACCELERATORS -- Paving the way; 2) ENERGY -- Rubber hits the road; 3) SOLAR-- More potent photovoltaics; 4) FORENSICS -- New weapon.
Improved management of crops and perennials could go a long way toward alleviating the problem of hypoxia, which claims thousands of fish, shrimp and shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico each spring.
1) COMMUNICATIONS -- Bird's eye view; 2) INFORMATION -- Quantum leap; 3) ENERGY -- Gas cooled fuel; 4) BIOSCIENCE -- Protein pairs feel the heat.
Tiny organisms play a powerful role in removing nitrate, a form of nitrogen pollution caused by human activity, in streams, according to a study by a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and published in Nature.
Noted "green energy" entrepreneur K.R. Sridhar will be the keynote speaker at this year's Global Venture Challenge, a business competition and venture forum to be held April 2-4 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The focus of this year's event is on energy-related technologies and companies including the bioenergy, energy efficiency and power generation sectors.
A growing number of plug-in hybrid electric cars and trucks could require major new power generation resources or none at all"” depending on when people recharge their automobiles. A recent ORNL study examined how an expected increase in ownership of hybrid electric cars and trucks will affect the power grid depending on what time of day or night the vehicles are charged.
With a proposed fiscal year 2009 budget of $20 million, the effort by the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners to develop grid-appropriate reactors is gaining steam.
A destructive spring freeze that chilled the eastern United States almost a year ago illustrates the threat a warming climate poses to plants and crops, according to a paper just published in the journal BioScience. The study was led by a team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Latin American nations could become important suppliers of ethanol for world markets in coming decades, according to an Oak Ridge National Laboratory study released recently.
1) HOMELAND SECURITY -- Protecting ports . . . 2) INDUSTRY -- Wireless sleuths . . . 3) BIOSCIENCE -- Genomic forensics for plants . . . 4) NEUTRON SCIENCE -- Spallation neutron record . . .
1) ECOLOGY-- Nature's way . . . 2) MICROBIOLOGY -- A gut feeling . . . 3) NANOSCIENCE -- Atom-scale switch . . . 4) FUSION -- Lassoing turbulence . . . 5) CLIMATE -- Improving projections . . .
Oak Ridge National Laboratory will lead research and development work for the automotive supplier industry initiated through the U.S. Automotive Partnership for Advancing Research and Technologies, or USAutoPARTs collaborative announced today at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Scientific studies on climate change, energy and alternative fuels are among the 30 projects awarded more than 145 million processing hours on supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
1) EMERGENCIES -- Keeping Fido safe; 2) TRANSPORTATION -- Truckin' data; 3)BIOENERGY -- Gutting termites; 4) ENVIRONMENT -- CO2 sleuth.
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today announced that SuperPower Inc., a Schenectady, N.Y., superconducting wire manufacturer, has signed a license agreement to use an ORNL-developed technology that can lower the cost of producing superconducting wires for more efficient transmission of electricity.
A Las Vegas business and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving the odds for people medically at risk from dehydration or congestive heart failure.
1) MATERIALS -- Tougher teeth . . . 2) MATERIALS -- Boost for E85 . . . 3) NEUTRON SCIENCE -- Record cold . . . 4) TECH TRANSFER -- Marketing innovations . . .
A water repellent developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory outperforms nature at its best and could open a floodgate of commercial possibilities.
1) MATERIALS -- Ready, aim . . . 2) MEDICAL -- Back pain modeling . . . 3) ENERGY -- Supercharged solar panels . . .
1) BIOMED -- Sensitive skin . . . 2) FORENSICS -- Better body bag . . . 3) CLIMATE -- Underground CO2 sinks . . . 4) ENERGY -- Steeper slopes . . .
SensorPedia, a writeable Web site in development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, solves a huge problem by giving emergency responders and decision-makers access to data from diverse sensor networks in near real time.
A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change.
An international collaboration directed by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher has performed the first-ever atomic-detail computer simulation of how proteins vibrate in a crystal.
Solar energy will be in the spotlight as researchers, engineers, architects and other renewable energy experts from the region convene at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oct. 24-25 for the first Southeast Solar Summit.
1) MICROSCOPY -- A chorus of signals; 2) NEUTRONS -- Add another instrument; 3) ENERGY -- NASA costs eased; 4) GENETICS -- Tastes great; 5) ENERGY -- Dielectric flow
The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world's most powerful accelerator based source of neutrons for scientific research.
Mice that are part of the Collaborative Cross project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists around the world learn more about possible causes of drug abuse, diabetes, sleep disorders, stress and pain, kidney disease and a number of other conditions that affect millions of people.
Homeowners could see their summer utility bills fall by 8 percent or more with a new roof and attic system being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Findings by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee bode well for using single-walled carbon nanohorns, a particular form of engineered carbon-based nanoparticles, for drug delivery and other commercial applications.
1) INDUSTRY -- Going wireless . . . 2) COMPUTING -- Unleashed power . . . 3) ECOLOGY -- Sturgeon study . . . 4) MATERIALS -- Supersaturated steel . . .
1) ENERGY-- Power forward . . . 2) ENVIRONMENT "“ Award-winning recipe . . . 3) HOMELAND SECURITY "“ Bio watchdog . . . 4) BIOLOGY "“ Eucalyptus sequencing . . .
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won six R&D 100 Awards, given annually by R&D Magazine to the year's most technologically significant new products.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Cray XT4 supercomputer, known as Jaguar, is now the second fastest system in the world, according to a semiannual list of the world's fastest computers.
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has won a bid from the Department of Energy for a $125 million bioenergy research center that will seek new ways to produce biofuels.
1) ENERGY -- New life for reactors . . . 2) NANOSCIENCE -- A clean suite . . . 3) MATERIALS -- Super stainless steel . . . 4) ENERGY -- Wet, warm wall worries . . .
Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are putting climate models to the test with particular focus on weather extremes.
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed technology collecting sunlight connected to special indoor light fixtures has earned an Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.
UT-Battelle announced today the selection of Dr. Thom Mason as Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He follows a successful tenure since 2001 as Associate Lab Director for the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source.
1) MEDICAL -- Atrial fibrillation alert . . . 2) ENERGY -- Huge industrial savings . . . 3) SENSORS -- Energy security . . .
The research reactor at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is back in action and better than ever. After $70 million in renovations and more than a year of meticulous system checks, ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor was restarted this week, taken to 10 percent power, and reached its peak power of 85 megawatts Wednesday.
Surveillance systems take on a new look with a technology developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Laser-Based Item Monitoring System balances the need for high-resolution monitoring and personal safety with respect for confidentiality and personal privacy.
Increased levels of ozone associated with the release of greenhouse gases are causing vegetation to use more water and may intensify the effects of global warming on ecological systems.
1) ENERGY -- Nanofiltered diesel; 2) ENVIRONMENT -- Leaf litter revelation; 3) GENOMICS -- Decoding data; 4) CLIMATE -- Precision predictions
Nanotechnology may unlock the secret for creating highly efficient next-generation LED lighting systems, and exploring its potential is the aim of several projects centered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Pink slime at the surface of water trickling through an old mine in California is proving to be a treasure for researchers in their quest to learn more about how bacterial communities exist in nature.
1) MATERIALS -- SNS's bright beginnings. . . 2) MATERIALS -- Coatings R Us. . . 3) CLIMATE -- Trees vs. temperature . . . 4) ENERGY -- Electricity from the sun . . .
An electronic accountability system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will result in savings of more than $2 million per year at one federal facility alone and will ensure 100 percent accountability of employees.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has opened a call for promising early- and growth-stage nanotechnology companies seeking venture capital to apply to present their business plans at the Nano Venture Showcase on April 4, part of a nanotechnology research and industry event to be hosted at the lab.
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