Radioactive materials have long been a part of American history鈥攆rom the Manhattan Project to the development of nuclear power.
Ask a biofuel researcher to name the single greatest technical barrier to cost-effective ethanol, and you鈥檙e likely to receive a one-word response: lignin.
Cellulosic ethanol鈥攆uel derived from woody plants and waste biomass鈥攈as the potential to become an
When the Ford Motor Company鈥檚 first automobile, the Model T, debuted in 1908, it ran on a corn-derived biofuel called ethanol, a substance Henry Ford dubbed 鈥渢he fuel of the future.鈥�
Since lasers were first produced in the early 1960s, researchers have worked to apply laser technology from welding metal to surgeries, with laser technology advancing quickly through the last 50 years.
There鈥檚 a good reason research institutions keep pushing for faster supercomputers: They allow the researchers to develop more realistic simulations than slower machines.
Summit won鈥檛 be open to users for another three years, but let鈥檚 not forget that ORNL already has the world鈥檚 second-fastest computer鈥攖he 27 petaflop Titan.
Our world is made up of particles so tiny they may actually be points in space.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer has completed rigorous acceptance testing to ensure the functionality, performance and stability of the machine, one of the world's most powerful supercomputing systems for open science.