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Oak Ridge partnership merges strengths of lab, private sector

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

An Oak Ridge engineering services firm with an international footprint has teamed with scientists to form a subsidiary and market an award-winning text analysis system. The technology has been used to find and arrest child predators and to uncover illicit activities.

ORNL researchers probe invisible vacancies in fuel cell materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Knowing the position of missing oxygen atoms could be the key to cheaper solid oxide fuel cells with longer lifetimes. New microscopy research from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is enabling scientists to map these vacancies at an atomic scale.

Journal: Nature Materials

ORNL technology moves scientists closer to extracting uranium from seawater

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fueling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could become more feasible because of a material developed by a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Meeting: American Chemical Society's 244th National Meeting & Exposition

ORNL researchers improve soil carbon cycling models

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new carbon cycling model developed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory better accounts for the carbon dioxide-releasing activity of microbes in the ground, improving scientists' understanding of the role soil will play in future climate change.

Journal: Ecological Applications

August 2012 story tips

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data archived at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can now be more effectively discovered, used and tracked through a new research resource from Thompson Reuters. US dependence on foreign oil could be further reduced with the introduction of a patented technology. The addition of graphics processing units to today's fastest central processing units promises significant increases in supercomputing capacity.

Networcsim hoping to broaden wireless revolution

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A Tennessee company has licensed award-winning software from Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will help industries install wireless networks more cost-effectively in challenging environments such as mines, offshore drilling platforms and factory floors.

New DataONE portal streamlines access to environmental data

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Environmental researchers who investigate climate change, invasive species, infectious diseases, and other data-intensive topics can now benefit from easy access to diverse datasets through technology released today by the Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2012

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This release contains summaries are noteworthy research from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in July 2012.

Special report: Graphics processing units speed results in extreme-scale supercomputers

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Can scientists and engineers benefit from extreme-scale supercomputers that use application-code accelerators called GPUs (graphics processing units)? Comparing GPU accelerators with today's fastest central processing units (CPUs), early results from diverse areas of research show 1.5- to 3-fold speedups for most codes. That acceleration means increased realism of simulations and decreased time to results. A special report details these findings.

BESC researchers tap into genetic reservoir of heat-loving bacteria

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The identification of key proteins in a group of heat-loving bacteria by researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center could help light a fire under next-generation biofuel production.

Journal: Journal of Bacteriology