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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Tennessee Gov.-elect Bill Haslam was the headliner at this morning's forum on economic development sponsored by the Innovation Valley. Other speakers included Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason....1/13 |
 (Medill Reports) Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed electrochemical strain microscopy, a new method to detect the motion of lithium-ions on a nano-scale, which could enhance lithium-ion battery performance....1/13
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DOE
 (Christian Science Monitor) The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is pulling the plug on the Tevatron, the only American particle collider capable of finding the Higgs boson, or 'God particle.'...1/13
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) [Opinion] The Knox County school board moved forward with a science and technology academy at the historic L&N Station on Wednesday, establishing the system's first standalone magnet school. The school will focus on the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math....1/13 |
National
 (New York Times) Gun rights advocates and lawmakers said that there was little chance the attack would produce new legislation or a change in a national culture that has long been accepting of guns....1/14
State & Regional
(WBIR-TV) Throughout the campaign, Tennessee Governor-Elect Bill Haslam trumpeted a plan for creating jobs in Tennessee and says when he's officially in office this weekend, that priority will not change a bit....1/14 |
(BBC) Scientists have proposed a means to track down the dark dwarf galaxies that should be orbiting the Milky Way, saying they have found evidence of one....1/14
(USA Today) The business case against small cars is strong. Simplified, it goes like this: Americans don't want them, won't pay the dramatically higher prices required for them to be profitable — and don't need them because gas still is cheap.