SkyNano, Knoxville Startup Named Finalist for Elon Musk’s $100M Tech Prize
Knoxville startup SkyNano has been named a finalist for Tesla founder Elon Musk’s $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal prize. SkyNano will find out Fr…
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ORNL Turns Pollution into Fuel, Plastics, and High-End Clothes
What if you could capture pollution off a smokestack and turn it into a polyester dress, jet fuel or high-end running shoes? That's something that Oak…
ORNL Develops Clean Water Bots
Measuring water quality throughout river networks with precision, speed and at lower cost than traditional methods is now possible with AquaBOT, an aq…
ORNL Collaborates to Demonstrate Self-Sanitizing N95 Masks
ORNL researchers collaborated with Iowa State University and RJ Lee Group to demonstrate a safe and effective antiviral coating for N95 masks. The coa…
Forging Ahead with Frontier: Ready to Crush Science
Computational users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, or OLCF, are running scientific codes on Frontier’s architecture in the form …
ORAU kicks off new $129.7 million contract to manage NASA Postdoctoral Program with new website for fellowships
Oak Ridge, Tenn.—ORAU assumed management of a $129.7 million contract for the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) on Jan. 30 with a new website for av…
Ultra Safe Nuclear Licenses ORNL Method to 3D Print Advanced Reactor Components
novel method to 3D print components for nuclear reactors, developed by DOE's ORNL, has been licensed by Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, or USNC.
ORNL’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2021
e challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2021 continued apace, with developments across the lab’s b…
Hubbard named Deputy for Science and Technology at ORNL
DOE's ORNL. Her appointment is effective March 1, 2022. Hubbard joins ORNL from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she most recently served …
ORNL Researchers Team Up to Get a Clearer Picture of Molten Salts
Researchers at DOE’s Oak Ridge, Brookhaven and Idaho national laboratories and Stony Brook University have developed a novel approach to gain fundam…