Shaun Gleason, director of the Partnerships Office at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to Tennessee’s Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. Council ...

Shannon Cass planned to go to college to become a teacher. Instead, in her job at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, she’s tasked with teaching people why security matters ...

The pressure hulls of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines consist of many steel plates joined by precision manual or robotic welding ...

Giri Prakash, lead for the Earth System Informatics and Data Discovery Section at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior member of the Institute of ...

Automotive aluminum scrap often contains elevated impurity levels that reduce ductility and limit reuse in structural components. With rising demand for lightweight materials and the growing volume of ...

The year’s top story announced two new AI supercomputers, establishing ORNL’s vital role as part of DOE’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative to accelerate science through artificial intelligence.

I use crystal growth, solid state chemistry, and metallurgical synthesis techniques, crystallographic studies, and physical property measurements to explore structure-property relationships in complex ...

Dr. Vincent C. Paquit serves as the section head for Secure and Digital Manufacturing in the Manufacturing Science Division (MSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Over the past two decades, he ...

With increasing demand for low-cost batteries, the establishment of a domestic supply chain is a top priority. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is giving US manufacturers a boost by operating the country ...

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