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Spanoite, a rare mineral discovered with unique amounts of uranium, vanadium and thallium, was named after ORNL’s Tyler Spano in recognition of her contributions to the field. Credit: Sha’de Ray/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Tyler Spano’s impact on the field of mineralogy is anything but small. So, when a newly discovered mineral, modest in size but significant in meaning, was named spanoite in her honor, it became a fitting tribute to her contributions to the field.

The Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is among the world’s most influential innovation hubs in advanced manufacturing. Since its launch in 2012, MDF has expanded from fewer than ten staff to more than 200, welcoming thousands of industry partners and visitors each year.

Based on intellectual property he developed over a four-decade-plus career at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), George Samuel “Sam” Hurst was among the laboratory’s most prolific inventors. One of the lab’s first corporate fellows, he pioneered resistive touchscreen technology, founded four companies, amassed an astounding collection of more than 30 patents and still found the time to publish more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and books.

An international team that included scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering, X-ray diffraction and high-resolution digital modeling to discover a simpler, cheaper way to create a prized form of silicon not found in nature. The results hold promise for energy storage and electronics production.

By remotely accessing an IBM quantum computer through the Quantum Computer User Program (QCUP) — a quantum computing access program managed by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory — a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory successfully simulated a key process in particle physics: hadronization.

Scientist Jason Newby measures phenomena that have never been observed, including a neutrino bouncing off an atomic nucleus — a signal as subtle as the tiny recoil of a bowling ball struck by a ping-pong ball. Capturing that effect is the kind of precision physics at the heart of a world-class research program Newby helped build at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

ORNL postdoctoral researcher Bryan Conry presents his National Lab Research SLAM talk, “TRISO nuclear fuel brings poppyseed-sized power.” Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL ORNL postdoctoral researcher turns nuclear fuel research into a three-minute talk for DOE’s National Lab Research SLAM The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory postdoctoral research associate Bryan Conry studies TRISO fuel, a particle-based nuclear fuel designed to withstand the extreme conditions inside...

The Department of Energy’sOak Ridge National Laboratory has named Brian Anderson as director of the Office of Institutional Strategic Planning, a role that will help guide the laboratory's strategic priorities and align research and infrastructure investments with its long-term vision. In the position, Brian will play a central role in advancing ORNL's strategic priorities, aligning research and infrastructure investments and leading cross-laboratory strategic initiatives.

The Department of Energy’sOak Ridge National Laboratory has named Brian Anderson as director of the Office of Institutional Strategic Planning, a role that will help guide the laboratory's strategic priorities and align research and infrastructure investments with its long-term vision. In the position, Brian will play a central role in advancing ORNL's strategic priorities, aligning research and infrastructure investments and leading cross-laboratory strategic initiatives.

Physicists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) and their colleagues have made critical measurements of the lifetime and decay energy of tellurium-104 (Te-104), an important step in answering a century-old question and understanding how hundreds of nuclei decay. The results, with key contributions from researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), are published in Nature.