Hubble Images a Classic Spiral
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that lies 100 million light-years from Earth in...
Early career awards recognize ORNL researchers in 3D printing
Nadim Hmeidat received the Young Professionals Emerging Leadership award from the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, or SAMPE, at its Keynote...
Frontier simulations could help build a better diamond
To achieve that level of accuracy, the team trained a novel machine-learning interatomic model by using an extensive cache of quantum mechanical data on various...
NSF funds over $50M in new partnerships to broaden participation in materials science
The U.S. National Science Foundation is announcing $50 million in Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) awards to 15 collaborative research projects nationwide...
Transforming environmental testing one shake at a time
An engineer levels the six degrees of freedom shaker table. In the background, another engineer prepares an inert W80-4 warhead for testing on the table....
A Saturnian Summer
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn on July 4, 2020. Two of Saturn's icy moons are clearly visible in this exposure: Mimas...
Jumping on the jumping gene bandwagon to speed up plant breeding
Getting a new variety of corn, tomato, soybean or other crop to market can be a long and costly effort, with breeders working to ensure...
‘Heroes’ honored for groundbreaking science in SRS tank waste cleanup
A team of federal contractor and national laboratory engineers and scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has been nationally distinguished as “Heroes...
Making strides in understanding decision making
Decisions, decisions. Life is full of decisions, from what to have for breakfast to where to work. To make each one, a series of mechanisms...
Detecting the Presence of PFAS in Invasive Blue Catfish
U.S. Geological Survey scientists from the Eastern Ecological Science Center (EESC) —Leetown Research Laboratory are sampling blue catfish in five locations of the Patuxent River...