Metallic glass may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s an actual thing. How is it possible to take the best characteristics of metals and glasses and combine them into one super-strong yet easily malleable material?

Takeshi Egami knows the answer, because he’s been working on it for over 45 years. And there are still plenty of secrets yet to be unlocked.

The Spallation Neutron Source marks a decade as a leading neutron science facility today at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The SNS’s combination of linear accelerator and accumulator ring sent its first protons to its one-of-a-kind mercury target in April 2006, beginning a process of commissioning instruments to take advantage of its unprecedented abundance of pulsed neutrons for research.

Theory and experiment push each other to expand the frontiers of physics. Now, the Neutron Sciences Directorate at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has both.

Cristian Batista, a theoretical condensed matter physicist with a joint appointment at ORNL and the University of Tennessee, is bringing theory to the experimental research conducted at the Shull Wollan Center – a Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences.

How a neutron’s life ends is not a mystery to physicists. Exactly when that happens, however, is a much trickier puzzle to solve.

The Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences is now the Shull Wollan Center—A Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, named in honor of two esteemed physicists and pioneers in neutron scattering, Clifford Shull and Ernest Wollan.