Lead pollution in a remote Tibetan glacier reveals far-reaching human activities
The Tibetan Plateau's glaciers are among the world's most remote and untouched places. Researchers say these ice fields provide water for millions of people and...
Supporting women in ocean sciences
The U.S. National Science Foundation, in collaboration with Every Page Foundation (EPF), is excited to announce 22 women science leaders as the 2024 NSF-EPF Ocean...
Two ORNL quantum research papers selected for editor’s choice list
Two papers led by researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received “Editor’s Choice” awards from the journal Future Generation Computer Systems. ORNL...
Researchers use Summit to track down nuclear fission’s elusive scission neutron
Second, the proton neck completes its rupture earlier than the neutron neck does, resulting in the neck being mostly sustained by its neutrons just before...
Predicting when the grass is greener: new phenological forecasts for invasive annual grasses
Cheatgrass, an invasive annual grass, reduces ecosystem productivity, negatively impacts biodiversity, and is increasingly problematic in higher elevation ecosystems with climate change. Cheatgrass phenology (that...
Study asks: Can cell phone signals help land a plane?
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dangling from a weather balloon 80,000 feet above New Mexico, a pair of antennas sticks out from a Styrofoam cooler. From that...
Snakes don’t go with their gut, they regenerate it
Humans aren't capable of regrowing limbs like some salamanders or full organs like some snails and zebrafish, but we do renew some of our cells,...
This week with NSF Director Panchanathan
This week, Director Sethuraman Panchanathan underscored the progress and accomplishments that NSF investments are having on innovation and research.The director traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, to...
Climate futures for lizards and snakes
Scientists gathered data on the recent distributions of 130 lizard and snake species found from Mexico to western Canada. The climate in each species’ current...
Sending clear signals: Cooke bridges academia, industry in ORNL-Tennessee Tech collaboration
Years before becoming a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Corey Cooke hit a discouraging setback in his pursuit of an...