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PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A technology that can enhance collecting of data from studying the compositions on a material surface has earned the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory the Excellence in Technology Transfer Project of the Year Award from the Southeast Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.

Police searching for victims in clandestine graves could soon have a new tool that will make their task considerably easier. Unscrupulous Internet service providers will have no place to hide because of a ranking system conceived by researchers at ORNL and Indiana University. Ability and reputation are the qualities that draw industrial users to ORNL's Building Technologies Research and Integration Center. A GM-led research team is using the world's fastest supercomputer to advance the cause of vehicle efficiency.

Four scientists at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named fellows of the American Physical Society.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers will lead projects that have been awarded a total of 251 million processor hours of computing time on supercomputers located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.

By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor with unprecedented sensitivity.

Student teams from 22 universities have been selected to advance to the semifinal round of the 2010 Global Venture Challenge hosted March 25-26 by the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Scientists hope to get a glimpse of the future with a proposed experiment facility in northern Minnesota that would allow them to adjust temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide across a broad range of possibilities projected by climate models.

An advancement in hybrid electric vehicle technology is providing powerful benefits beyond transportation.

Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are among the 69 scientists that will receive five-year research grants as part of the US Department of Energy's new Early Career Research Program.