Recent News & Features
ORNL's Office of Communications and External Relations works with national, regional, and local media outlets on news stories about the laboratory.
For more information on ORNL and its research and development activities, please refer to one of our Media Contacts. If you have a general media-related question or comment, you can send it to news@ornl.gov.
News Releases
Features | News Releases Archive | Features Archive
Binder leads ORNL's Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 2, 2012 Jeffrey Binder has been appointed associate laboratory director for Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
|
||
UT-Battelle donates $60,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sep. 28, 2012 UT-Battelle today presented Second Harvest Food Bank with the first $20,000 installment of a three-year commitment of $60,000 to help the local organization feed hungry East Tennesseans.
|
||
ORNL research uncovers path to defect-free thin films OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sep. 21, 2012 A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ho Nyung Lee has discovered a strain relaxation phenomenon in cobaltites that has eluded researchers for decades and may lead to advances in fuel cells, magnetic sensors and a host of energy-related materials.
|
||
ORNL roof and attic design proves efficient in summer and winter OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sep. 10, 2012 A new kind of roof-and-attic system field-tested at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory keeps homes cool in summer and prevents heat loss in winter, a multi-seasonal efficiency uncommon in roof and attic design.
|
||
ORNL's newly licensed neutron detector will advance human disease research OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sep. 19, 2012 A neutron detector developed for studies focused on life science, drug discovery and materials technology has been licensed by PartTec Ltd. The Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection technologies is moving the technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory toward the commercial marketplace.
| ||
Features
News Releases | Features Archive | News Releases Archive
SNS researchers overcome the freezing sample problem in biostudies Researchers at the Spallation Neutron Source BASIS beam line at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully developed a method to study biomolecules (proteins) at temperatures far below freezing using a lithium chloride preparation in the aqueous solvent that prevents freezing. — Sep. 13, 2012
|
||