Vol. 55, No. 2, (Fall 2022)
- Editorial: National security for the 21st century
- To the Point: ORNL Director Zacharia announces retirement, proteins linked to cancer report looks to dams as untapped power sources, study shows that bacteria help peat beat the heat
- National Security: National security science tackles a new generation of threats, high-performance computing boosts uranium research, ORNL tools help ensure energy supply, strengthening cybersecurity in the energy sector, engineers and scientists support nonproliferation efforts
- Focus on Computing: Summit study tackles superconductivity, traffic-based building schedules make smart city even smarter
- Infographic: Securing our nation
- Focus on Neutrons: COVID-19 research moves to antiviral drug design, reducing stress: neutrons help GE improve 3D-printed parts
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Precision machining produces tiny, light-guiding cubes for advancing info tech, polymer gives 3D-printed sand super strength
- Focus on Biology: Microbes turn waste gases into valuable chemicals
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Oak Ridge's last 19th-century building
- Research Insights: Toward a Carbon Neutral Future, Part I: Novel research for shrinking the carbon footprint
Vol. 55, No. 2, (Spring 2022)
- Editorial: ORNL user facilities advance science and technology
- To the Point: Frontier is world’s fastest supercomputer, materials tested in space for radiation effects, perovskite study points to better solar batteries, lignin research points to cheaper biofuels
- ORNL User Facilities: User facilities: Essential support for the country’s researchers, getting down to basic: going big to study the very small, OLCF: serving up bleeding-edge compute power and expertise to the world’s scientists, national user facilities use applied science to accelerate industry growth
- Focus on Neutrons: The secret lives of corn plants caught ‘on camera,’ ORNL helps Nobel laureate improve battery cathodes
- Focus on Quantum: Key witness spills secrets of ‘spooky’ quantum entanglement, real-world demonstration leads to quantum networking milestone
- Focus on Biology: New biosensors shine a light on CRISPR gene editing
- Infographic: Predicting the planet's future
- Focus on Tech Transfer: Mothers (and fathers) of invention: Getting ORNL tech into the world
- Focus on Decarbonization: Decarbonization: Q&A with David Sholl
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Quick detection of uranium isotopes helps safeguard nuclear materials, upcycled: from common plastic to tough, recyclable adhesive, Tiny but mighty precipitates toughen a structural alloy
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Nurse Doris Scott bridged lab’s early race–health disparity
- Research Insights: Atoms for applications: quantum technologies of the future
Vol. 55, No. 1, (Winter 2022)
- Editorial: Pursuing a circular economy
- To the Point: Advance in modeling improves water analysis, ORNL teams take seven R&D 100 awards, new computer code focuses on power grid, nanostructures promote stretchier alloys
- Toward a circular economy: Keeping materials out of landfills, ensuring our water future, lithium recovery: a critical challenge for battery tech
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Welcome to Neutrino Alley: Q&A with ORNL’s Marcel Demarteau, compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities, automated chemistry sets new pace for materials discovery
- Focus on Neutrons: A simple salt: making batteries faster and safer, twist and flex: ‘hinged’ atoms improve solar power specs, after 20 years, physicists find a way to keep track of lost accelerator particles
- Focus on Isotopes: Labwide effort may accelerate cancer treatment approvals
- Focus on Manufacturing: Better Plants Program leads industry partners on sustainability journey
- Focus on Botany: Single gene makes for hardier crops
- Focus on COVID: DOE scientists deploy creativity, speed to disrupt COVID-19
- Infographic: Interrupting COVID-19
- Focus on ITER: First-of-a kind superconducting magnet modules delivered to ITER site
- DOE Early Career Award Winners: A tremendous achievement in a tumultuous year
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Ting
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have Oak Ridge roots
- Research Insights: Research articles from ORNL staff
Vol. 23, No. 4, ( 1990)
Disorder in Crystal Surfaces- ORNL and Antarctica
- Reducing Friction To Save Energy
- Differing Structures of Amorphous Solids
- The Verdict on Acid Rain
- ORNL's Contributions to NAPAP
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—Successful first Saturday Academy for Computing and Mathematics; photograph of Oak Ridge teacher in national magazine
- R&D Updates—ORNL waste site surveyed by mobile robot; ORNL materials aboard Ulysses space probe; ORNL procedure adopted by EPA
- Technical Highlights—Part of gene making fruit fly resistant to insecticides cloned; subtle DNA changes and trace levels of organics detected by two ORNL mass spectrometer systems; rat lung tumors targeted by ORNL's monoclonal antibodies; new theory on tokamak operations
- Technology Transfer—Optics MODIL organized; iron aluminide technology licensed to two firms
Vol. 23, No. 3, ( 1990)
ORNL's Future Missions- 2 Editorial—ORNL can help synthesize new materials, as called for by a recent National Research Council report.
- Robotics for Nuclear Reactors and Hazardous Environments
- Examining Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Chemicals
- Mechanisms of Radon Transport
- ORNL's Future Missions
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- Educational Activities—Science and Technology Alliance; memorandums of understanding
- User Facilities—Bioprocessing Research Facility examined
- R&D Updates—New findings on attic insulation and heat loss; ORNL contributions to shaping National Energy Strategy many and varied; computation speed record attained; U.S . civil defense's ability to meet threat of nuclear winter studied; ORNL tritium sales ended; support for Operation Desert Shield
- Technical Highlights—5 R&D 100 Awards for ORNL; new concept for producing very pure therapeutic drugs continuously
- Technology Transfer—Radiation detector for groundwater licensed; new R&D agreements allowed
Vol. 23, No. 2, ( 1990)
Visualizing Scientific Data- State of the Laboratory—1989
- Scientific Visualization: New Insights by Computer
- Improving Detection of Airport Explosives
- Microwave Processing of Radioactive Waste
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- User Facilities: The expanding Roof Research Center
- Educational Activities: Role models at ORNL for future women scientists; helping public-school science and math teachers
- Technical Highlights: Solar-powered infrared-emitting microchip being developed and tested; microbes aided by vegetation in decontaminating waste sites; revealing results of a carbon dioxide simulation model
- R&D Updates: World's longest dinosaur imaged by ORNL technique; SSC detector pre-proposal developed at ORNL; the HFIR restored to full-power operation
- Technology Transfer: Electrical solvent extraction technology, precision etching technology, and a radionuclide generator for diagnosing heart disease licensed
Vol. 23, No. 1, ( 1990)
Organ Images- Eureka! A Look at Inventing
- Iron Aluminides and the Inventor of the Year
- Human Behavior in Emergencies
- Environmental Protection in China
- Toward a One-Angstrom Electron Microscope
- ORNL's Impact on Radiation Protection Guidance
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—New initiatives pushed by President Bush, Secretary of Energy Watkins, Energy Systems, and state of Tennessee
- R&D Updates—New parallel computer at ORNL; Oak Ridge Detector Center established; effects of solar storms on U.S. electric power systems being studied
- Technical Highlights—New concept for increasing optical data storage; important human repair gene cloned; ORNL support for French fusion device; waste-managing microbes
- Technology Transfer—ORNL to collaborate with SEMATECH; computer security technology licensed