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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Jul-2025 11:11 ET (10-Jul-2025 15:11 GMT/UTC)

American Physical Society recognizes ORNL’s historic Graphite Reactor

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Grant and Award Announcement

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as an APS historic site. APS President Young-Kee Kim presented a plaque commemorating the recognition on Monday, Nov. 4, the 81st anniversary of the reactor’s first achieving criticality in 1943.

Frontier users’ Exascale Climate Emulator nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize

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Grant and Award Announcement

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Plant CO2 uptake rises by nearly one third in new global estimates

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Plants the world over are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new assessment developed by scientists. The research, detailed in the journal Nature, is expected to improve Earth system simulations that scientists use to predict the future climate, and spotlights the importance of natural carbon sequestration for greenhouse gas mitigation.

Journal: Nature
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy, Cornell University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Earth Science Technology Office, U.S. National Science Foundation

Wind blade composite project from ORNL wins green design innovation award

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Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were recently honored with a prestigious ACE Award for Composites Excellence by the American Composites Manufacturers Association. The team won the “innovation in green composites design” prize for creating a fully recyclable, lightweight wind turbine blade tip that incorporates low-cost carbon fiber and conductive coating for enhanced protection against lightning strikes.

New technique could unlock potential of quantum materials

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new avenues for understanding and developing advanced materials for quantum computing and electronics.

Journal: Science Advances

‘Neutron Nexus’ brings universities, ORNL together to advance science

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Business Announcement

ORNL has launched the Neutron Nexus pilot program with Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University and Florida State University. The first-of-its-kind program aims to expand outreach with key universities, colleges and minority-serving institutions to advance science through neutron scattering research.

International clean energy initiative launches global biomass resource assessment

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Reports and Proceedings

A multi-country, government-led initiative dedicated to advancing the global transition to a sustainable, bio-based economy, unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Neutrons settle 40-year debate on enzyme for cancer drug design

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at ORNL used neutrons to end a decades-long debate about an enzyme cancer uses. Their findings can support the design of an inhibitor that can target aggressive cancers.

Journal: Chemical Science
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Office of Science

Kowalski, Salonvaara receive ASHRAE Distinguished Service Awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Building equipment and envelope scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were recognized for research excellence during the ASHRAE 2024 summer conference held in Indianapolis.

U2opia signs license to commercialize anomaly-detection technology for cybersecurity

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

U2opia Technology has licensed Situ and Heartbeat, a package of technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that offers a new method for advanced cybersecurity monitoring in real time.

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