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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

Interdisciplinary team designs gas flow cell to analyze catalytic behavior

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of researchers from ORNL and Colorado State University developed a U-tube gas flow cell to study catalysts and better understand how facilitate chemical reactions. With this cell integrated into a new sample environment, they can combine neutron diffraction and isotope analysis techniques to view catalytic behavior under realistic operating conditions.

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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New method turns used cooking oil into biofuel with carbon derived from recycled tires; novel technique protects innermost fusion reactor wall from energy created when hydrogen isotopes reach sun-like temps; new catalyst production process doubles output of high-value renewable BTX used in plastics and tires; crystalline thin film vanadium dioxide makes outstanding electrode for lithium-ion batteries.

Journal: ChemistrySelect
Funder: Department of Energy

Neutrons peer into a running engine

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge national Laboratory researchers and industry partners used neutrons to investigate the performance of a new aluminum alloy in a gasoline-powered engine -- while the engine was running.

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