The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) earned a new lab record with 22 R&D 100 Awards in 2026 for technologies that advance energy, manufacturing, computing, biotechnology and other fields. ORNL led 18 of the winning technologies and contributed to four additional award-winning projects led by partner institutions.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has officially committed funding to establish UNITY-3, a world-class fusion breeding blanket test facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), with Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) relocating its U.S. headquarters to Tennessee to help build and operate it. The facility is part of the recent public-private strategic partnership established between DOE, ORNL and KF to buil
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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory created a platform that pinpoints genetic triggers that turn microbes into efficient factories for new chemicals and materials. The method enables rapid, precise reprogramming of bacteria as biotechnology tools, supporting the domestic production of valuable products and the recovery of critical minerals and materials, enhancin
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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and fusion energy consultancy Rutherford Energy Ventures LP (REV) have officially begun development of a new public-private partnership framework to create shared fusion testbed infrastructure at ORNL. The new consortium model, known as the Fusion Upscaled Leveraged Consortia for Rapid Acceleration (FULCRA), is designed to address key
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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists will lead nine and contribute to an additional 32 projects of the Genesis Mission , which aims to transform science in the U.S.
New data fortifies modern physics insights, researchers say
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The Center for Immunology is proud to congratulate Cara-lin Lonetree and Grant Hickok, both MICaB graduate students in the laboratory of Dr. Ingunn Stromnes, on receiving prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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Future fusion facilities need materials that can provide reliable radiation shielding while also maintaining gas tightness and allowing components to be easily removed for maintenance. This is particularly important for areas where pipes and other components pass through radiation shielding structures. In a study published in Journal of Materials Research and Technology , a team led by Dr. HUO Zhi
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Ten frontier scientific challenges expected to shape future research and technological development in remote sensing were unveiled on Aug. 28 at the opening ceremony of the Second National Conference on Remote Sensing Geography in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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How protective is air conditioning in preventing deaths amid soaring temperatures and record heat levels? Yale researchers found that AC usage cut the amount of annual heat-related deaths by half in the U.S., saving more than 5,000 lives a year. However, while AC is a highly effective heat-adaption tool, protective effects level off once usage passes a certain point. On days of extreme heat, risk
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Technology & InnovationNational University of Singapore
Prof Ong hopes the AI Foundry can compress discovery cycles for new materials from months or years to weeks. Professor Shyue Ping Ong wants AI to do more than predict whether a material might work. His vision is a discovery system that can propose new materials for a specific purpose, identify the most useful experiments to run, learn from every result and help scientists understand why a material
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The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $90 million over five years to support three new NSF Science and Technology Centers (NSF STC). These centers will advance American leadership in…
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What makes NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope a powerful tool with an unprecedented wide view of the cosmos? NASA engineers who designed, built, and tested Roman pop the hood to explain the unique technology inside. Go inside the huge NASA clean room where Roman was built, and get an up-close look at the testing campaign that ensures Roman will succeed in the cold, inhospitable conditions of
Scientists have recently reconstructed the ancestral karyotype of the banana family, revealing how chromosome numbers decreased stepwise from 17 to 9 - 11 over evolutionary time. The study was led by scientists from the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with researchers from Sichuan University and other institutions . The findings were p
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AUG 21, 2026 | Russ Nelson (L-R) Savaria Parrish, Pragya Natarajan and Stephanie Manasterski, the first three UAH graduate students to receive fellowships in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP). Courtesy Savaria Parrish, Pragya Natarajan and Stephanie Manasterski The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is welcoming three graduate students who wo
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Sensing systems typically use separate photoelectric sensors for non-contact perception and pressure sensors for contact perception. Because these sensors are spatially separated and often acquire signals at different times, their data must be aligned and fused afterward, introducing potential latency, positional mismatch, and signal crosstalk. In a study published in Nature Sensors , a team led b
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Technology & InnovationLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) recently convened supporters, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) leaders, partners and community members to celebrate 10 years of philanthropic impact. The event recognized a decade dedicated to unlocking scientific potential, advancing groundbreaking research and inspiring the next generation of STEM leaders. "Ten years ago, we set out with a vision to connect philanthropic investments with cutting-edge scientific innovation," said LLF Board Chair Dona Crawford. "[This event] isn't just a milestone on a calendar; it's a reflection of what
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar system. NASA scientists Bertrand Mennesson and Vanessa Bailey explain how Roman’s wide view will spot as many as 100,000 new exoplanets in a galactic census that will change how we understand planetary system formation. And we’ll learn about an experimental camera that will allow scientists to take direct
Sorghum is the main raw material used to make Chinese Baijiu. However, different varieties can be difficult to distinguish quickly and accurately, making rapid quality screening a challenge. A team led by Prof. WANG Qi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Luzhou Laojiao Co., Ltd, developed two data-fusion methods for rapid and accurate identi
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Diamond is more than a dazzling gem — the extremely hard form of carbon makes up the pellet that encases fuel for inertial confinement fusion, and scientists believe it rains down deep inside ice giant planets like Neptune and Uranus. In both cases, the material experiences enormous pressures. Until now, experiments and simulations have disagreed about how it actually behaves under those conditions. In a new study, published in Nature Physics, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) document how diamond melts under pressures three times greater than the conditions at
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Eleven Suffolk County Community College students and recent graduates completed an innovative pilot workforce development program shaped by nuclear technology and radiochemistry expertise at Brookhaven Lab.
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