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(Physorg.com) "What we do know right now is that when methane is taken up and released into the environment, water plays a critical role", said Chris Tulk, lead instrument scientist on the Spallation Neutrons and Pressure Diffractometer (SNAP) at ORNL...This research should lead to better models of how hydrocarbons are taken up and released in the environment."...3/15 |
(Newswise) MATERIALS -- POWGEN open for business...CHEMISTRY -- Unraveling methane’s structure...BIOLOGY -- Model tells the story...CHEMISTRY -- Workshop helps student earn publication...PHYSICS -- Searching for ‘supersolidity’...3/16
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is putting together a symposium March 28-30 in Washington, D.C. to talk about the science possibilities of extreme-scale hybrid supercomputing. Top folks in the field are expected. Check it out here. The event is being called the Accelerating Computational Science Symposium 2012...3/15
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Sen. Lamar Alexander wants the government to get going on mercury cleanup in Oak Ridge, and he made his case directly to Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a Senate hearing earlier this week...3/16
State & Regional
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) TVA on Thursday laid off about half of the 900 contractors working on the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant project. Bellefonte, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s half-finished plant in Hollywood, Ala., about 42 miles southwest of Chattanooga, is being readied for completion, but TVA officials say the slow pace of work on Watts Bar Nuclear Plant’s new Unit 2 reactor has forced the Bellefonte preparation work to slow...3/16
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National
(CS Monitor) The White House responded to the Taliban announcement by reaffirming the US commitment to peace talks and insisting that the Afghanistan war will have to end with a political settlement...3/15
(NPR) The Defense Department is bracing for billions of dollars in budget cuts — and that has defense contractors looking for new markets. Homeland Security is one of the most promising, particularly border security, which hasn't suffered any big cuts. So companies are lining up in hopes of landing a contract...3/16
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Graphene battery demonstrated to power an LED
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