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.
Thomas Lee Ferrell of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for his invention of the photon scanning tunneling microscope.
Tuan Vo-Dinh, a UT-Battelle corporate fellow, director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Photonics, and leader of the Advanced Biomedical Science and Technology Group in the Life Sciences Division, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
After just two months, a partnership between ORNL and the Institute at Biltmore has hit full stride in support of entrepreneurs and economic development in Western North Carolina.
1) MATERIALS -- Power to Saturn; 2) PHYSICS -- Old in the tooth; 3) CHEMISTRY -- Photons on missions.
A technology with proven environmental, forensics and medical applications has received a shot in the arm because of an invention.
Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 119 since the awards began in 1963.
Schools, hospitals, dormitories and theaters could be a lot more comfortable during steamy summers because of a partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and industry.
Thousands of special agents created at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are on missions 24 hours a day as they work to uncover threats to national security.
1) Materials -- Tricking the sun; 2) Superconductors -- Solving a mystery; 3) Environment -- Mapping carbon flux
A study might help explain whether there is a relationship between inhalation of small particles, reduced heart rate variability and death.
Touting potential economic benefits to Tennessee, the state's head of economic development helped dedicate a new $10 million facility Friday to house the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), one of the world's most powerful research reactors, is marking a milestone this month -- its 400th fuel cycle since it began operation in 1966.
1) Health -- Environmental respiration risks; 2) Automobiles -- Sparking a revolution; 3) Chemistry -- Sophisticated separations
Researchers have developed a nanoscale technology for investigating biomolecular processes in single living cells. The new technology enables researchers to monitor and study cellular signaling networks, including the first observation of programmed cell death in a single live cell.
Spring's lush green lawns and hot pink shoes contribute at least in a small way to the world's total carbon picture, say researchers.
New atom-scale images promise to provide researchers the ability to predict and model the properties and behavior of advanced ceramic materials.
Scientists and researchers around the nation are closer to being connected via high-speed networks that live up to their promise because of an agreement between ORNL and National LambdaRail.
1) Protective gear -- High-tech for first responders; 2) Chemistry -- Self-organizing polymers; 3) Space -- Fuel for the future; 4) Automobiles -- Look ma, no belts.
Marilyn Brown, director of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, has earned the 2004 James R. Anderson Medal of Applied Geography.
Tennessee could become a model for the nation when it comes to protecting the public from chemical, biological, or radiological releases. Already, sensors that are part of ORNL's SensorNet are deployed in Nashville, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge, and in other parts of the nation.
More accurate global climate models are in the forecast because of a collaboration between ORNL and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Includes: 1) COMPUTING -- Safer highways; 2) SENSORS -- A nose for chemicals; 3) HOMELAND SECURITY -- New neutron detectors; 4) PARTNERING -- Bringing industries together.
Four of the 24 awards to be presented in May for outstanding work in the process of transferring a technology to the commercial marketplace will go to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Building a "green" mega-facility posed many challenges, but Oak Ridge National Laboratory wants to lead by example, and the effort has paid off with a 2003 Excellence in Construction award from a major contractors association.
Trees absorb more carbon dioxide when the amount in the atmosphere is higher, but the increase is unlikely to offset the higher levels of CO2, according to results from large-scale experiments.
A contract for $2.6 million has been awarded to a Nashville company to provide a key component for the Spallation Neutron Source. The inner plug assembly (IPA) represents one of the largest procurements for the SNS target systems, and was awarded to RTS Nuclear Solutions International.
1) Space -- life beyond earth; 2) Computing -- 10 trillion and counting; 3) Astrophysics --theory behind the spectacle
1) Energy -- Nearly too cheap to meter; 2) Military -- 'Fort-to-port' lickety-split; 3) Health -- Decontamination in a flash; 4) Biology -- Attacking bioterrorism.
It's looking and feeling a lot less like Christmas in many parts of the country as higher temperatures and fewer snowfalls are becoming the norm from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve.
Big science requires big computers that generate vast amounts of data that must be shared efficiently, so the Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded Oak Ridge National Laboratory $4.5 million to design a network up to the task.
1) FORENSICS -- Microbial detectives; 2) GENETICS -- New mice, new opportunities; 3) TRANSPORTATION -- More practical fuel cell; 4) PHYSICS -- Alternate path to success
1) GEOGRAPHY -"“ LandScan on the map; 2) ENERGY -"“ Hydrogen recovery refined; 3) EXPLOSIVES "“- Nowhere to hide; 4) MATERIALS -"“ Ceramics to the rescue.
Researchers from around the nation will have access to some of the world's finest scientific tools because of a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to the Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Representatives from major retailers, the lighting industry and the Tennessee Valley Authority are scheduled to participate in a hybrid solar lighting summit hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oct. 7-8.
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