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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Apr-2025 05:08 ET (25-Apr-2025 09:08 GMT/UTC)

Teletrix expands augmented reality training platform with new commercial license

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Teletrix, a company specializing in radiation training tools, has transitioned from a research and development license to a commercial license for its augmented reality, or AR, platform that simulates ionizing radiation. This advanced platform, known as VIZRAD AR, was developed using technologies licensed from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and allows users to interact with virtual radiological environments in real time.

Seven researchers named to Battelle Distinguished Inventor cadre

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Seven scientists affiliated with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named Battelle Distinguished Inventors in recognition of being granted 14 or more United States patents. Since Battelle began managing ORNL in 2000, 104 ORNL researchers have reached this milestone.

Landmark photosynthesis gene discovery boosts plant height, advances crop science

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists with two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers — the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, or CABBI, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30% in the field and by as much as 200% in the greenhouse.

Journal: Developmental Cell
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Improved catalyst turns harmful greenhouse gases into cleaner fuels, chemical feedstocks

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A chemical reaction can convert two polluting greenhouse gases into valuable building blocks for cleaner fuels and feedstocks, but the high temperature required for the reaction also deactivates the catalyst. A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a way to thwart deactivation. The strategy may apply broadly to other catalysts.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

Gordon Bell Climate Prize goes to Kaust Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, are this year’s winner of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.

Game-changing quantum chemistry calculations on frontier earn Gordon Bell Prize

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers led by the University of Melbourne, Australia, are winners of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize in supercomputing for conducting a quantum molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than any previous simulation of its kind. Using Frontier, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the team calculated a system containing more than 2 million correlated electrons.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

DOE’s Quantum Computing User Program releases request for information to father input on quantum computing access

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Quantum Computing User Program at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is releasing a Request for Information to understand the latest in quantum computing hardware, software tools and user engagement.

Seiber elevated to IEEE senior member

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Larry Seiber, an R&D staff member in the Vehicle Power Electronics group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.

Researchers drive solid-state innovation for renewable energy storage

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists are developing a formula for success – by studying how a new type of battery fails. The team’s goal is the design for long-term storage of wind and solar energy, which are produced intermittently, enabling their broader use as reliable energy sources for the electric grid.

Journal: Batteries & Supercaps

American Physical Society recognizes ORNL’s historic Graphite Reactor

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as an APS historic site. APS President Young-Kee Kim presented a plaque commemorating the recognition on Monday, Nov. 4, the 81st anniversary of the reactor’s first achieving criticality in 1943.

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