ORNL projects included in $67 million from DOE for AI in science research
The Department of Energy took a major step in establishing artificial intelligence as a priority in the coming decades.Specifically, DOE announced a $67 million investment...
Standing up the nation’s supercomputing pipeline for streaming big data in real time
Big science generates big data. But what happens when researchers produce more data than they can process? It’s actually becoming a problem for research facilities...
Finding critical minerals from scoops of sand
Smartphones, batteries and satellites all require critical minerals like cobalt, niobium and tin. As society increasingly relies on these minerals to create a more sustainable...
Western Fisheries Research Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Meeting
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is responsible for oversight of the animal care and use program and the components as described in...
NSF and Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation join forces to accelerate innovations
The transatlantic partnership aims to propel innovative technology translation, lay the foundation for new industries and positively impact people's lives in the U.S. and Europe The...
Jordan Cannon: Engineering enzymes to enable sustainable bioplastics
Plastic pollution negatively impacts human and animal health as well as the stability of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Also, petroleum-based plastics degrade slowly, breaking into...
Folding the future: The rise of origami-inspired robots
Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, is taking a futuristic turn with the work of Cynthia Sung at the University of Pennsylvania. Supported by...
U.S. releases National Spectrum Research and Development Plan to guide spectrum innovation
The U.S. government has released the National Spectrum Research and Development Plan, a crucial step forward in maintaining America's global leadership in wireless spectrum innovation....
Three ORNL researchers named 2024 American Physical Society Fellows
Jiaqiang Yan, a leading scientist in ORNL’s Correlated Electron Materials group, Materials Science and Technology Division, was acknowledged for his pioneering work in the synthesis...
NSF congratulates laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry
The U.S. National Science Foundation congratulates David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Baker and his...