ORNL receives Recovery Act funding for Carbon Fiber Technology C...

ORNL receives Recovery Act funding for Carbon Fiber...
A new, stimulus-funded research center at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help strengthen the very 'fiber' of America's automotive and energy industries.

PartTec to market SNS-developed neutron detector...
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...

ORNL earns project of year award from tech transfer...
(DOE/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...

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum...

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to...
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we...