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Icy behavior

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When a Rhode-Island-sized ice chunk separates from Greenland, is the calving due to typical seasonal variations or a long-term warmer world?

OLCF, partners release eSiMon Dashboard simulation tool

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

On Feb. 1, the Electronic Simulation Monitoring (eSiMon) Dashboard version 1.0 was released to the public, allowing scientists to monitor and analyze their simulations in real-time. Developed by the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah, North Carolina State University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, this "window" into running simulations shows results almost as they occur, displaying data just a minute or two behind the simulations themselves.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

'Fingerprints' match molecular simulations with reality

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A theoretical technique developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is bringing supercomputer simulations and experimental results closer together by identifying common "fingerprints."

New lignin 'lite' switchgrass boosts biofuel yield by more than one-third

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bioethanol from new lines of native perennial prairie grass could become less costly because of plant engineering by the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and fermentation research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

ORNL's Jaguar helps BMI win award, nation save fuel

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A BMI Corp. SmartTruck technology that could save 1.5 billion gallons of diesel fuel and $5 billion in fuel costs per year has hit the road in record time in part because of simulations performed on the nation's most powerful supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory February 2011

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Proposals to install hydrokinetic turbines in rivers across the US are prompting questions about the environmental impacts. Highly effective anti-virus programs for computers are a system to protect people from deadly genetically engineered biological bugs. By testing radiation detection equipment and helping establish standards, a team of ORNL researchers protects the people who keep the nation safe. What does it take to withstand the conditions of ITER, the world's largest fusion energy reactor?

Neutron analysis reveals '2 doors down' superconductivity link

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Neutron scattering analysis of two families of iron-based materials suggests that the magnetic interactions thought responsible for high-temperature superconductivity may lie "two doors down": the key magnetic exchange pairings occur in a next-nearest-neighbor ordering of atoms, rather than adjacent atoms.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

'Tall order' sunlight-to-hydrogen system works, neutron analysis confirms

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a biohybrid photoconversion system -- based on the interaction of photosynthetic plant proteins with synthetic polymers -- that can convert visible light into hydrogen fuel.

ORNL receives 2 national tech transfer awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Two teams from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won awards for excellence in technology transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.

Neutrons 'go viral' at ORNL

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A research team from ORNL and North Carolina State University is using small angle neutron scattering to study how viruses change their structure when they move between different host species. Understanding how a virus reorganizes itself when it goes from a mosquito to a human is critical for the development of medicines that can block the spread of viruses.