Vol. 57, No. 2, (Fall 2024)
- Editorial: Tennessee hosts a resurgent nuclear industry
- To the Point: ORNL scientists unveil secrets of promethium, flooding model created to help urban planners, neutron analysis boosts solid-state cooling materials
- Nuclear is Here: Nuclear is here ... and here and here, nuclear industry gets a boost from Tennessee government, East Tennessee may become a hub for nuclear medicine, paving paths for a new nuclear workforce
- Early Career Scientists: Early career researchers win big
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutrons score electrochemical win for carbon-neutral ammonia, 3D-printed turbine blades a first
- Focus on Manufacturing: 3D-printed turbine blades a first
- Focus on Grid: Medium-voltage research promotes clean, reliable power
- Infographic: Tennessee's nuclear renaissance
- Focus on Computing: Custom software speeds up, stabilizes high-profile ocean model; illuminating the mechanics of solid-state batteries
- Focus on Buildings: Study projects massive savings from geothermal heat pumps; additive boosts building heating, cooling tech
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Research shows novel uses for hafnia, super supercapacitor sets energy-storage record
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: ORNL’s nonproliferation history
- Research Insights: AI of the Future: Impact of Artificial Intelligence Modeling
Vol. 57, No. 1, (Spring 2024)
- Editorial: UT partnership takes us into the future
- To the Point: Genome editing tool honed for better renewables, improving graphite used in molten salt reactors, neutrons offer insights into battery advances
- University of Tennessee and ORNL: Still collaborating after all these years, an institute to supercharge the UT-ORNL alliance, UT-ORII’s new leader looks forward to groundbreaking research, Governor’s Chairs program attracts scientific luminaries, doctoral students look beyond academia
- Focus on Computing: ORNL’s Titan helps simulate influenza virus, autocoding cancer
- Focus on Neutrons: ‘Neutron camera’ method captures atomic-scale activity in a flash, 50 years after NASA Apollo missions, moon rocks still have secrets to reveal
- Focus on Biology: Producing biofuels for jets
- ORNL in the community: ORNL supports Puerto Rican microgrids
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Simulation code aids high energy physics research, ORNL teams with Army to improve welds
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Physicist Frances Pleasonton joined early ORNL studies of the neutron
- Research Insights: Additive Manufacturing the Future Part II: Improving the Process
Vol. 23, No. 4, ( 1990)
Disorder in Crystal Surfaces- ORNL and Antarctica
- Reducing Friction To Save Energy
- Differing Structures of Amorphous Solids
- The Verdict on Acid Rain
- ORNL's Contributions to NAPAP
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—Successful first Saturday Academy for Computing and Mathematics; photograph of Oak Ridge teacher in national magazine
- R&D Updates—ORNL waste site surveyed by mobile robot; ORNL materials aboard Ulysses space probe; ORNL procedure adopted by EPA
- Technical Highlights—Part of gene making fruit fly resistant to insecticides cloned; subtle DNA changes and trace levels of organics detected by two ORNL mass spectrometer systems; rat lung tumors targeted by ORNL's monoclonal antibodies; new theory on tokamak operations
- Technology Transfer—Optics MODIL organized; iron aluminide technology licensed to two firms
Vol. 23, No. 3, ( 1990)
ORNL's Future Missions- 2 Editorial—ORNL can help synthesize new materials, as called for by a recent National Research Council report.
- Robotics for Nuclear Reactors and Hazardous Environments
- Examining Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Chemicals
- Mechanisms of Radon Transport
- ORNL's Future Missions
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- Educational Activities—Science and Technology Alliance; memorandums of understanding
- User Facilities—Bioprocessing Research Facility examined
- R&D Updates—New findings on attic insulation and heat loss; ORNL contributions to shaping National Energy Strategy many and varied; computation speed record attained; U.S . civil defense's ability to meet threat of nuclear winter studied; ORNL tritium sales ended; support for Operation Desert Shield
- Technical Highlights—5 R&D 100 Awards for ORNL; new concept for producing very pure therapeutic drugs continuously
- Technology Transfer—Radiation detector for groundwater licensed; new R&D agreements allowed
Vol. 23, No. 2, ( 1990)
Visualizing Scientific Data- State of the Laboratory—1989
- Scientific Visualization: New Insights by Computer
- Improving Detection of Airport Explosives
- Microwave Processing of Radioactive Waste
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- User Facilities: The expanding Roof Research Center
- Educational Activities: Role models at ORNL for future women scientists; helping public-school science and math teachers
- Technical Highlights: Solar-powered infrared-emitting microchip being developed and tested; microbes aided by vegetation in decontaminating waste sites; revealing results of a carbon dioxide simulation model
- R&D Updates: World's longest dinosaur imaged by ORNL technique; SSC detector pre-proposal developed at ORNL; the HFIR restored to full-power operation
- Technology Transfer: Electrical solvent extraction technology, precision etching technology, and a radionuclide generator for diagnosing heart disease licensed
Vol. 23, No. 1, ( 1990)
Organ Images- Eureka! A Look at Inventing
- Iron Aluminides and the Inventor of the Year
- Human Behavior in Emergencies
- Environmental Protection in China
- Toward a One-Angstrom Electron Microscope
- ORNL's Impact on Radiation Protection Guidance
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—New initiatives pushed by President Bush, Secretary of Energy Watkins, Energy Systems, and state of Tennessee
- R&D Updates—New parallel computer at ORNL; Oak Ridge Detector Center established; effects of solar storms on U.S. electric power systems being studied
- Technical Highlights—New concept for increasing optical data storage; important human repair gene cloned; ORNL support for French fusion device; waste-managing microbes
- Technology Transfer—ORNL to collaborate with SEMATECH; computer security technology licensed