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Justice adjustments

November 2022

An Oak Ridge team applies supercomputing to environmental justice in a changing climate.

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River of data

September 2022

Oak Ridge-developed open-source software is helping model watersheds and related climate issues the world over

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Borrowing from the brain

December 2020

Nature inspires Oak Ridge National Laboratory algorithms for neuromorphic processors.

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Genome-crunching

October 2018

Supercomputing power and increasing genomic data are allowing Oak Ridge researchers to examine drought tolerance in plants and other big biological questions.

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Enhancing enzymes

October 2017

High-quality computational models of enzyme catalysts could lead to improved access to biofuels and better carbon capture.

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Nanogeometry

December 2016

With a boost from the Titan supercomputer, a Berkeley Lab group works the angles on X-rays to analyze thin films of interest for the next generation of nanodevices.

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Early-universe soup

June 2016

ORNL’s Titan supercomputer is helping Brookhaven physicists understand the matter that formed microseconds after the Big Bang.

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Analysis restaurant

November 2015

The AnalyzeThis system deals with the rush of huge data-analysis orders typical in scientific computing.

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Layered look

August 2015

With help from the Titan supercomputer, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is peering at the chemistry and physics between the layers of superconducting materials.

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Slippery subject

February 2015

University of Texas researchers are out to improve computational models of ice sheets by refining estimates of basal friction: how much rocks and earth slow the sheet’s movement.

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Supernova shocks

More than 10 years after simulations first suggested its presence, observations appear to confirm that a key instability drives the shock behind one kind of supernova.

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After the thaw

February 2014

Simulations of melting permafrost promise changes in climate modeling.

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Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier.

Deciphering the big thaw

July 2013

Scientists thought they had figured out what ended the last ice age – except for one nagging problem. Researchers using Oak Ridge National Laboratory computers may now have discovered the final answer.

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Kinky nanotubes

September 2012

With the help of Oak Ridge computations, scientists are probing the properties of macroscale sponges made of nanoscale carbon-boron tubes. The material could soak up oil spills, help store energy or meet other needs.

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Seeing the invisible

October 2010

Armed with computing power from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers are detailing the nature of dark matter surrounding a galaxy much like our own Milky Way.

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Breaking the biomass barrier

December 2009

What Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are learning could help make ethanol from cellulose a viable fuel alternative – and help the United States replace foreign oil with a green, renewable resource.

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