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. 56, No. 2, (Spring 2023)
- Editorial: Making an exascale impact with Frontier
- To the Point: ORNL gets a new lab director and deputy for operations, recyclable composites help drive net-zero goal, new insights advance atomic-scale manufacturing
- Entering the Exascale Age: Exascale impact: The Frontier supercomputer gets to work, ORNL’s methodical leap into the exascale era, exascale tools for developing new reactors, OLCF teams fine-tune Frontier for science, Pioneering Frontier
- Focus on Computing: Quantifying qudits: Measurements provide glimpse of quantum future
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Cell membrane discovery heralds computing advances, anode material paves the way for fast battery charging, adsorbent material filters toxic chromium, arsenic from water supplies
- Focus on Neutrons: Add-on device makes home furnaces cleaner
- Focus on National Security: Location intelligence shines a light on disinformation
- Infographic: Scientific computing at ORNL
- Focus on Biology: Tiny, revved-up microbe tackles big plastics challenge, neutrons reveal how the spider lily preys on cancer cells
- Focus on Nuclear: East Tennessee looks to bolster nuclear workforce
- Focus on Manufacturing: 3D-printed home made from biobased materials
- Focus on Transportation: Researchers explore hydrogen power for railways
- Focus on Grid: Blockchain helps increase electric grid resiliency
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Kay Way: The mother of nuclear data
- Research Insights: Additive Manufacturing the Future, Part I: Applications for Additive Manufacturing
Vol. 56, No. 1, (Winter 2023)
- Editorial: The uniqueness of ORNL
- To the Point: Energy secretary attends isotope, facility event, racing company, licenses ORNL battery technology, existing water pipes are an untapped power source
- Focus on Computing: Frontier study could uncover new cures, treatments; accelerating drug discovery with AI; computational tools promote children’s mental health
- Focus on Neutrons: Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle; neutrons show how promising peptide fights antibiotic-resistant bacteria; neutrons shed light on methane-to-methanol conversion
- Focus on National Security: Researchers use seismology, radiation detection to bolster nonproliferation efforts
- Focus on Grid: ORNL sensor research helps fight wildfires; ORNL research to bring more reliable electricity to Puerto Rican microgrids
- Focus on Climate: Predicting climate change in vulnerable neighborhoods
- Focus on Botany: Listening in on soil conversations with rhizosphere-on-a-chip
- Early Career Scientists: The best is yet to come: ORNL’s Early Career Research Program award winners
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Libby Johnson: On the frontier for nuclear safety
- Research Insights: Toward a Carbon Neutral Future, Part II: Technologies for a more carbon-friendly future