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A new pulsed magnet technique developed for ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source shatters previous field strength limits for pulsed neutron scattering experiments. Science, medicine and engineering will at ORNL for its annual Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference. Up to four times as much land is available to site small nuclear power plants as compared to large plants, according to a study by ORNL.

Microorganisms can indeed live in extreme environments, but the ones that do are highly adapted to survive and little else, according to a collaboration that includes US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Joint Genome Institute and the University of Oklahoma.

Herbert A. Mook Jr., a UT-Battelle Senior Corporate Fellow at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been awarded the 2010 Clifford E. Shull Prize by the Neutron Scattering Society of America.

Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their colleagues have obtained the first images that distinguish individual light atoms such as boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.

PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A technology that can enhance collecting of data from studying the compositions on a material surface has earned the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory the Excellence in Technology Transfer Project of the Year Award from the Southeast Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.

Police searching for victims in clandestine graves could soon have a new tool that will make their task considerably easier. Unscrupulous Internet service providers will have no place to hide because of a ranking system conceived by researchers at ORNL and Indiana University. Ability and reputation are the qualities that draw industrial users to ORNL's Building Technologies Research and Integration Center. A GM-led research team is using the world's fastest supercomputer to advance the cause of vehicle efficiency.

Four scientists at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named fellows of the American Physical Society.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers will lead projects that have been awarded a total of 251 million processor hours of computing time on supercomputers located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.

By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor with unprecedented sensitivity.