(Desktop Engineering) ...The technology under development via the Battery500 Project (launched in 2009) uses lithium air batteries that swap heavy-metal oxides for carbon that creates an electrical charge when it reacts with oxygen. IBM researchers at the company's Almaden and Zurich labs are collaborating with the Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.....1/25 |
(Tennessee Journalist) On Jan. 22, the Sun ejected a mass of energetic, fast-moving particles into space..."From its launch to making contact with earth, it took 36 hours," said Bronson Messer, computational astrophysicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, explaining that the flow of solar energy came at earth more than one and a half times faster than typical...1/25 |
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DOE
(Science Daily) Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific discovery...1/25
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Most of the Recovery Act-funded cleanup projects at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, including several demolition activities, have been an unqualified success...1/24
State & Regional
(WBIR) Gov. Bill Haslam and the Legislature's two speakers have announced a joint proposal to address how judges are selected in Tennessee.
The three Republicans have said they oppose the popular election of Supreme Court justices...1/25
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National
(New York Times) The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it was likely to raise interest rates at the end of 2014, but not until then, adding another 18 months to the expected duration of its most basic and longest-running response to the financial crisis...1/25
(Washington Post) Two decades after evicting U.S. forces from their biggest base in the Pacific, the Philippines is in talks with the Obama administration about expanding the American military presence in the island nation, the latest in a series of strategic moves aimed at China...1/26
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The chairman of the Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corp.'s board said Tuesday that when it comes to compensation for President and CEO Gloria Ray, he has to look at what's in the best interest of the organization...1/24
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