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Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2017

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A method developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory could protect connected and autonomous vehicles from possible network intrusion. A new ORNL technique makes ultrafast measurements using atomic force microscopy.

Journal: ACS Nano
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences

Sensible driving saves more gas than drivers think

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A new study by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has quantified the impact speeding and slamming on the brakes has on fuel economy and consumption. Aggressive behavior behind the wheel can lower gas mileage in light-duty vehicles, which can equate to losing about $0.25 to $1 per gallon.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2017

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: 3-D printing process repairs and strengthens Cummins engine without recasting parts. Unoccupied research house serves as test bed for connected neighborhood project. Atomic force microscopy shows adding chloride to photovoltaic materials enhances ionic conduction. Researchers design innovative home energy router prototype. ORNL hosts molten salt reactor workshop.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

ORNL researchers turn to deep learning to solve science's big data problem

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

ORNL researchers awarded $2 million to apply machine learning to data analysis.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

The Wonderland of ALICE: Q&A with Thomas M. Cormier

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An experiment called ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider is dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions. ALICE stands for 'A Large Ion Collider Experiment.' Its aim is spotting the high-energy, elementary particles, like electrons and gamma rays, streaming from the quark-gluon plasma, to explore the physics of the early universe. Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist Thomas M. Cormier provides an update on the experiment.

High-resolution modeling assesses impact of cities on river ecosystems

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New mapping methods developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can help urban planners minimize the environmental impacts of cities' water and energy demands on surrounding stream ecologies.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DC Hot Stick developed for first responder, worker safety

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

With more volts than ever before in electric vehicles (EVs) and on solar-paneled rooftops, first responder and electrical worker safety is a growing concern. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are addressing the challenge with the development of a probe to accurately detect direct-current (DC) energy.

Funder: US Fire Administration

Galactic winds push researchers to probe galaxies at unprecedented scale

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

After using the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to rule out a potential mechanism for galactic wind, UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Brant Robertson and University of Arizona graduate student Evan Schneider, now a Hubble Fellow at Princeton University, are aiming to generate nearly a trillion-cell simulation of an entire galaxy, which would be the largest simulation of a galaxy ever.

Four ORNL researchers receive DOE early career funding awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers specializing in nuclear physics, fusion energy, advanced materials and environmental science are among 59 recipients of Department of Energy's Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science

World's smallest neutrino detector finds big physics fingerprint

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT experiment, using the world's smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter. The research, performed at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source and published in the journal Science, provides compelling evidence for a neutrino interaction process predicted by theorists 43 years ago, but never seen.

Journal: Science
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, Kavli Foundation