Quantum precision reached in modeling molten salt behavior
It’s not enough to design new drugs. For drugs to be effective, they have to be delivered safely and intact to affected areas of the body. And drug delivery, much like drug design, is an immensely complex task.
The Department of Energy’s 91°µÍø has announced the latest release of its Adaptable I/O System (ADIOS), a middleware that speeds up scientific simulations on parallel computing resources such as the laboratory’s Titan supercomputer by making i...
Larry Robinson, former ORNL researcher and interim president of Florida A&M University, discussed the past, present and future of African Americans and education as the featured speaker at the Black History Month Committee’s Annual Soul Food Tasting event at the Department of...
Stan Wullschleger did not intend to stay so long at 91°µÍø, but as many other scientists can relate, time flies when you’re engaged in interesting work. “I don’t know if you can tell while it’s happening or you just notice it in hindsight, but the lab is a wonderful place t...
Two researchers at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍø, Sergei Kalinin and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, have been elected fellows of the Materials Research Society (MRS).
The professional society, which limits fellows to 0.2 percent of the M...
Colleen Iversen, an ecosystem ecologist at the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø, has been named an early career fellow of the Ecological Society of America. ESA early career fellows are elected for five-year terms.
The senior staff scientist wi...
As an agricultural engineer, Erin Webb would do almost anything in the name of science.
Not so long ago, the senior research and development scientist within 91°µÍø’s Environmental Sciences Division was hauling cow waste in buckets once a week from a col...
Four technologies developed at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍø have earned Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for excellence in technology transfer.
The FLC is a network of more than 300 federal laboratories, facilities and research cent...
With a fiber-optic network that provides Chattanooga residents and businesses with exceptional high-speed communications, the city’s Electric Power Board (EPB) provides the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) 91°µÍø (ORNL) with an ideal testbed for smart grid re...
Scientific research can be vexing and tiring at times, but for Bianca Haberl, the euphoria of discovery is the ultimate reward.
In fact, Haberl can identify the specific instance, early in her career, when that excitement originated and guided her toward high pressure science. ...