Shattered Argon Pellet Injection Technology for Fusion Reactors
As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a…
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New Material Captures Toxic Air Pollutant and Converts Into Useful Chemical
Metal-organic framework material requires only water and air to convert the captured gas into nitric acid for industrial use. An international team of scientists, led…
Testing Potential Materials for Use in Interplanetary Travel With Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
If humankind reaches Mars this century, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed experiment testing advanced materials for spacecraft may play a key role. NASA is considering…
New Wireless Charging Designs for Electric Vehicles Double Power Density
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers created and tested new wireless charging designs that may double the power density, resulting in a lighter weight system compared…
Insect-Inspired Motion Sensing – Researchers Create Miniaturized Mechanical Gyroscope
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory took inspiration from flying insects to demonstrate a miniaturized gyroscope, a special sensor…
Summit Supercomputer Harnessed for Quantum Supremacy Milestone (Video)
A joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a quantum…
Bio-Circuitry Mimics Synapses and Neurons – Accelerates Routes to Brain-Like Computing
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee and Texas A&M University demonstrated bio-inspired devices that accelerate routes to…
Using a Supercomputer and Neutrons to Reveal Structures of Intrinsically Disordered Protein
Using the Titan supercomputer and the Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists have created the most accurate 3D…
Cannibalistic Materials Spontaneously Form New Nanostructures
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic “building blocks” from which stable structures…
Physicists Make First Six Dimensional Phase Space Measurement of an Accelerator Beam
The first full characterization measurement of an accelerator beam in six dimensions will advance the understanding and performance of current and planned accelerators around the…
PROSPECT Ready To Search For A Previously Unobserved Particle
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) has completed the installation of a novel antineutrino detector that will probe the possible existence of a…
Scientists Make First Observations of Phasons
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory made the first observations of waves of atomic rearrangements, known as phasons, propagating supersonically through…
Underground Neutrino Experiment Searches for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
If equal amounts of matter and antimatter had formed in the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, one would have annihilated the other…
Neutron Analysis on Glaucoma Drugs Offers Clues for Cancer Targets
New insights from neutron analysis of glaucoma drugs and their enzyme target may help scientists design drugs that more effectively target aggressive cancers. A team…
Scientists Investigate Plasma Tornadoes in the Magnetosphere
Interplanetary space is hardly tranquil. High-energy charged particles from the Sun, as well as from beyond our solar system, constantly whizz by. These can damage…
Small Nanoparticles Provide Dramatic Improvements in Polymer Materials
New research from Oak Ridge National Laboratory shows that blending nanoparticles and polymers enables dramatic improvements in the properties of polymer materials. Polymer nanocomposites mix…
Researchers Develop Transistors without Semiconductors
By placing nanometer sized quantum dots of gold across on the tops of the boron nitride nanotubes, researchers at Michigan Tech created a quantum-tunneling device…
Methane Hydrate Cages, The Key to Using Methane as a Clean Energy Source?
Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are researching ways to use methane as a clean energy source by capturing the CO2 byproduct in an…