Knowledge gained by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers and colleagues through an initiative to begin this fall could answer several long-standing questions and give the United States a competitive edge in the design of future fusion power plants.
Determining how best to balance water and energy security with environmental sustainability is the focus of a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Startup company Sunlight Direct is bursting onto the horizon with demonstration hybrid solar lighting systems at the Department of Energy's American Museum of Science and Energy and several locations across the country.
The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has met a crucial milestone on its way to completion in June 2006 -- operation of the superconducting section of its linear accelerator.
1) ENVIRONMENT -- Sinking CO2; 2) ENERGY -- Pure, efficient power; 3) BIOLOGY -- Single-cell analysis; 4) ELECTRONICS -- Slick surveillance system.
1) DEFENSE -- Real war games; 2) INSTRUMENTATION -- Stressed out; 3) ASTROPHYSICS -- Connecting the dots; 4) ENVIRONMENT -- Potent protein probes.
Precision mirrors to focus X-rays and neutron beams could speed the path to new materials and perhaps help explain why computers, cell phones and satellites go on the blink.
A textile marking system that encodes information invisible to the naked eye could save the U.S. millions of dollars in revenue lost each year to counterfeiters and violators of trade laws.
Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, presented each year by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations.
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced the establishment of the Clifford G. Shull Fellowship, a two-year postdoctoral appointment similar to ORNL's Wigner Fellowship.
A new advanced turbine being tested at Wanapum Dam in Washington state produces nearly 5 percent more power, but before more are installed researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are getting input from several thousand fish.
Gary Van Berkel of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Chemical Sciences Division has been awarded the Biemann Medal by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Rare salamanders at a Georgia military base are the guinea pigs for Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers whose goal is to develop methods to better determine whether a species has vanished.
A device that could create custom-tailored medical compounds faster than ever before is one of the first projects launched under the new Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Four technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have earned Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.
A microbial community thriving under bizarre natural conditions in California could be a gold mine to researchers in their quest to understand the complex biological relationships and how these inner workings might apply on a grander scale.
1) ENVIRONMENT -- Nitrate's worst nightmare. 2) INSTRUMENTATION -- Symposium slated May 8-12. 3) BIOLOGY -- Microbial sleuth. 4) ENVIRONMENT -- Lower emissions.
Relief from soaring prices at the gas pump could come in the form of corncobs, cornstalks, switchgrass and other types of biomass, according to a joint feasibility study for the departments of Agriculture and Energy.
Zhiyu Hu believes it is possible to match nature's highly efficient method to convert chemicals into thermal energy at room temperature, and he has data and a published paper to support his theory.
1) PHYSICS -- Stirring the Big Bang soup. 2) CHEMISTRY -- Molecules in jail. 3) ENERGY -- Heat pumps and more. 4) ENERGY -- Nuclear fuel study. 5) ENVIRONMENT -- Tracking truck emissions.
1) TRANSPORTATION -- Securing Russian railcars. 2) MATERIALS -- Cooling it with magnetism. 3) AUTOMOBILES -- Silicon carbide power. 4) COMPUTING -- Maximizing computational power.
The Department of Energy has awarded UT-Battelle an overall performance rating of "Outstanding" for the company's management of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The rating is the highest awarded by DOE and comes after an evaluation of ORNL's performance from October 2003 through September 2004.
Jeffrey Wadsworth, director of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Millions of people at risk of becoming blind could one day be helped by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology originally intended to understand semiconductor defects.
1) MATERIALS -- A layer at a time. 2) HOMELAND SECURITY -- Safe harbors. 3) GEOGRAPHY -- Case closed. 4) GENETICS -- Biosystems approach to skull disorder.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force have launched a program to help Air Force personnel upgrade their technical knowledge and skills and raise their awareness of potentially useful ORNL research and technology.
1) FORENSICS -- The telltale tree. 2) MATERIALS -- Next-generation steel. 3) NANOSCIENCE -- On a butterfly's wings. 4) SENSORS -- Advanced fuel cells.
Christmas costs can make us all a bit less jolly, but there are a number of ways even Ole St. Nick can save money throughout the year and help offset the high cost of the holiday.
Dr. James B. Roberto, deputy director for science and technology at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies.
1) MATERIALS -- Cool under pressure; 2) MATERIALS -- Better distributed energy; 3) PHYSICS -- Stellar nova simulations; 4) ENERGY -- Cleaner, cheaper coal power.
Four researchers working at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are among the 308 to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Patients with cancers previously next to untreatable may have new hope because of a license agreement between Isotron of Norcross, Ga., and UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Four new instruments installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor this year make the facility an even more attractive destination for researchers around the world.
1) ENERGY EFFICIENCY -- Doing the Texas two-step; 2) COMPUTING -- Seeing is believing; 3) MATERIALS -- Beneath the surface; 4) TRANSPORTATION -- Next-generation sensors; 5) ENVIRONMENT -- Nature's healing hand.
A technology that can scan living small animals and other biological objects has been honored as project of the year by the Southeastern Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium.
An award-winning system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to clean up perchlorate pollution is now also helping scientists determine whether the contamination is natural or man-made.
1) FUSION -- A twisted doughnut. 2) GEOGRAPHY -- A vision for security. 3) BUILDINGS -- After the flood. 4) BIOLOGY -- Mimicking nature. 5) ENERGY EFFICIENCY -- Frostless in frost.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced today that Vanderbilt University has joined the laboratory's "core universities." ORNL's core universities assume a scientific leadership role in working with the laboratory to help shape the research agenda for more than one billion dollars in science and technology programs.
With the recent "warm commissioning" of its linear accelerator, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has passed a crucial test and milestone on its way to completion in 2006.
Johney Boyd Green Jr., a researcher with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been recognized as one of the 50 most important black research scientists in America.
Laetitia Delmau of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named by Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top young innovators. Delmau joins the "TR100" group of 100 selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's science publication.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers, using a state-of-the-art microscope and new computerized imaging technology, have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see--to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstrom.
Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source on Chestnut Ridge.
Jian Shen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a Department of Energy recipient of the latest Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), presented today in a White House ceremony.
1) SIMULATION -- New generation optoelectronics. 2) ENERGY -- An untapped resource. 3) TRANSPORTATION -- A road to better highways. 4) AIR QUALITY -- Immediate analysis. 5) CHEMISTRY -- The big squeeze.
You might say some scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory hang with a fast crowd. More and more, NASCAR teams seeking a racing edge are making pit stops at ORNL's High Temperature Materials Laboratory for high-tech tips to better performance.
Hundreds of barges, tow boats and recreational craft passing through Watts Bar on the Tennessee River will be monitored for nuclear material as part of an effort to thwart terrorists.
The Department of Homeland Security's recent selection of Memphis as a "best practices" model for high-tech security measures could speed the implementation of similar technologies in other cities.
1) Transmission: Grains of insight into the grid; 2)Energy: More bang for the buck; 3)Biology: Good vibrations
An electricity meter that sometimes runs backwards is just one of the cool aspects of near-zero-energy homes.
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