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Manufacturing Demonstration Facility’s 3-D-printed tool used for building aircraft achieves Guinness World Record recognition
A 3-D printed trim-and-drill tool, developed by ORNL researchers and to be evaluated at The Boeing Company, has received the title of largest solid 3-Dprinted item by Guinness World Records.
Retired Sustainable Transportation Program director Ron Graves leaves innovation legacy
Sitting in the driver’s seat comes naturally to Ron Graves, the recently retired head of ORNL’s Sustainable Transportation Program.
American Physical Society names ORNL’s Holifield Facility national historic physics site
The American Physical Society (APS) has honored the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility as an APS Historic Physics Site. It is the first designated APS Historic Physics Site in the state of Tennessee.
Building better energy-environment models: Yetta Jager
At the confluence of energy and ecology is where Henriette “Yetta” Jager has found her calling.
New Billion-Ton report analyzes the potential environmental effects of increasing biomass production
A new report jointly released by the U.S.
A cure for an aging grid: Yilu Liu
It’s an interesting time to be a power systems engineer: renewable generation is flourishing and bringing with it a unique set of challenges.
New method uses neutrons, computational modeling to build better batteries
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a way to better track the movement and amount of lithium during battery cycling using computational modeling,...
Erin Webb: Turning biomass inside out to find economic potential
As an agricultural engineer, Erin Webb would do almost anything in the name of science. Not so long ago, the senior research and development scientist within Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)’s Environmental Sciences...
Secrets of Fish Ear Bones Unlocked
Scientific discovery can come from anywhere, but few researchers can say the answers to their questions would come from the pea-sized bones in the head of a six-foot-long, 200-pound prehistoric freshwater fish.
Artfully exploring bioderived composites: ORNL 3D-prints DesignMiami pavilions
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory expect a project undertaken this fall to 3D-print portions of two outdoor pavilions will give them valuable insight into the use of bio-derived...
Udaya Kalluri: Early Career Professional, Plant Biologist, Bio Enthusiast
Udaya Kalluri brings considerable energy to her plant research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)—a trait colleagues describe as “contagious enthusiasm.”
ExxonMobil partners with ORNL to introduce the Enterprise, one-of-a-kind marine test engine
A new marine test engine unlike any other in the world is speeding up the...
Frances Arnold on the use of directed microbe evolution to promote clean energy technology
Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold delivered the Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture in Science, Technology, and Policy at ORNL on Nov. 2, 2015.
A look back at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
ORNL’s Molten Salt Reactor Experiment operated more than 13,000 hours during its four-year run in the mid- to late 1960s.
ORNL research informs landmark decision on heat-trapping refrigerants
A global agreement to phase down the use of potent greenhouse gas refrigerants and replace them with climate-friendly alternatives leaned on multiple ORNL studies.