ORNL-led team wins DOE bioenergy center
... Funded by the Department of Energys Office of Science, the Bioenergy Science Center will be located on the ORNL campus in a new facility funded by the state and owned by the University of Tennessee. The center, one of three funded from more than 20 proposals, will employ the interdisciplinary expertise of the teams partners in biology, engineering and agricultural science and commerci...ORNL researchers, supercomputer have large roles in DOE projects
... The awards, announced Monday by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, are part of the 2007 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. Of the total 95 million hours of processor time awarded to 45 projects by DOE, 75 million hours will be performed on ORNL's Cray XT4 (Jaguar) and Cray X1E (Phoenix) systems. Argonne, Pacific No...ORNL aids diesel parts manufacturers
... Laboratory researchers are helping companies characterize materials and test components as part of the industrys preparation for the new emissions mandates. The requirements will result in a 90 percent reduction in nitrogen oxide, or NOX, and particulate matter, or soot, released by diesel vehicles, from semi-trucks to cars.</...ORNL's Thundat elected fellow of AAAS
... ... Microcantilevers--microscopic devices that c...Innovative projects help ORNL win 3rd straight DOE Pollution Prevention Award
... ... "Our pollution prevention philosophy is quite broad based," Wadsworth said. "The cost saving...Plants' role in global warming re-examined in ORNL Science paper
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 1, 2006 -- Estimates of increased plant respiration in response to higher global temperatures may be somewhat overstated as they have not taken into account plants' ability to adjust to changing conditions, according to researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory....... In a Perspectives paper published April 28 by Science, a team led by Tony King cites ORNL findings sugg...ORNL, protein discovery researchers collaborate on high-profile paper
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- A paper that outlines a new method to use a beam of light to trap protein molecules and make them dance in space has earned a place in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition....... The technique, developed by a team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and Protein Discovery, is more than ju...ORNL-led study shows forests thrive with increased CO2 levels
Forest productivity may be significantly greater in an atmosphere enriched with carbon dioxide, according to findings released today that challenge recent reports that question the importance of carbon dioxide fertilization....... The study, performed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and 10 other institutions in the United States and Europe, revealed a st...ORNL scientists looking at nature in a new way
Improved tools and increasingly sophisticated approaches are helping researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a better understanding of how organisms respond to and interact with their environment. ......Through the Detection and Simulation of Ecosystem Response Initiative, scientists are taking advantage of advances in genomics, sensor technology, applied mathematics, analytical technol...ORNL leading effort to help harness power of Shewanella
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 11, 2005 -- Tremendous amounts of data being generated about a microbe adept at bioremediation will be more efficiently organized and shared through a new $3 million project headed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.... ...The award by the Department of Energy's Office of Science builds upon advances made through a three-year consortium whose members have already sequenced th...Three ORNL technologies earn technology transfer excellence awards
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 27, 2005 Three technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards from the Southeast Region of the Federal Laboratory consortium. ......The awards are for the Polyelectrolyte Thin-Film Array Slide, the Flame Doctor Burner-Monitor System and the Laser-Based Item Monitoring System.......I...Salmon survival, cleaner hydropower focus of ORNL research
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 29, 2005 -- A new advanced turbine being tested at Wanapum Dam in Washington state produces nearly 5 percent more power, but before more are installed researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are getting input from several thousand fish.... ...The project is part of an upgrade to a hydroelectric power plant owned by Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, and uti...ORNL nanoscience center 'jump starts' medical compound device
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 24, 2005 -- A device that could create custom-tailored medical compounds faster than ever before is one of the first projects launched under the new Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory....... Project director Joseph Matteo, founder and CEO of the local research firm NanoTek, is building a small, microfluidic machine to quickly and reliably...ORNL technologies win maximum Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 6, 2005 -- Four technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have earned Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer....... The technologies are the MicroCAT X-ray micro-computed tomography for biological research, the AquaSentinel real-time water supply protection monitoring bi...ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 5, 2005 -- A microbial community thriving under bizarre natural conditions in California could be a gold mine to researchers in their quest to understand the complex biological relationships and how these inner workings might apply on a grander scale....... In a paper to appear today on Science Online, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory...Spontaneous ignition discovery has ORNL researcher fired up
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 19, 2005 -- Zhiyu Hu believes it is possible to match nature's highly efficient method to convert chemicals into thermal energy at room temperature, and he has data and a published paper to support his theory. ......In a paper scheduled to appear in the May 18 print issue of the American Chemical Society's Energy & Fuels, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Hu describes a nove...Combating blindness is vision of UT, ORNL project
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 9, 2005 Millions of people at risk of becoming blind could one day be helped by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology originally intended to understand semiconductor defects....... The project takes advantage of the Department of Energy lab's proprietary content-based image retrieval technology, which is a method for sorting and finding visually similar images in lar...ORNL, U.S. Air Force launch educational program
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., January 14, 2005 -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force have launched a program to help Air Force personnel upgrade their technical knowledge and skills and raise their awareness of potentially useful ORNL research and technology.... ...The U.S. Air Force-National Laboratory Technical Fellowship Program was established Wednesday with the signing of a Memorandum...Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 24, 2004 -- Patients with cancers previously next to untreatable may have new hope because of a license agreement between Isotron of Norcross, Ga., and UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory.... ...The license allows Isotron to market a treatment called neutron brachytherapy, which enables physicians to deliver a highly concentrated dose of californium-252...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 3, 2004 -- A technology that can scan living small animals and other biological objects has been honored as project of the year by the Southeastern Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium.... ...The MicroCAT X-ray micro-computed tomography for biological research was named as the top project in the Southeast during the organization's Oct. 28 dinner in Orlando, Fla......ORNL system eliminates perchlorate, helps scientists trace source
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 20, 2004 -- An award-winning system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to clean up perchlorate pollution is now also helping scientists determine whether the contamination is natural or man-made.... ...This latter application could be instrumental in tracking environmental perchlorate, finding its source and resolving resulting liability issues, said ORNL scientis...