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(Knoxville News Sentinel) The biggest Office of Science project in Oak Ridge to be funded with Recovery Act money was the new $95 million Chemical and Materials Sciences Building, which opened last summer with a visit by Department of Energy science chief Bill Brinkman...4/3
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(PhysOrg) ...A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jeremy Smith demonstrated how the combination of high-performance computer simulation and a type of neutron analysis called spin echo can be used to study certain motions in proteins....4/3
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DOE
(Reuters) ...The Oakland-based company has held rights for the 1,000-megawatt Blythe Solar Power Project in the Southern California desert, which last April won $2.1 billion of conditional loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy. It is unclear how the bankruptcy will affect that project...4/2
(Knoxville News Sentinel) As reported a few months ago, B&W Y-12 -- a partnership of Babcock & Wilcox and Bechtel National -- received $51.2 million in fee and an overall rating of "excellent" -- for managing and operating the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Fiscal Year 2011 (which ended Sept. 30)...4/3
State & Regional
(Tennessean) Tennessee, where the nation’s first big legal battle over evolution was fought nearly 90 years ago, is close to enacting a law that critics deride as the “monkey bill” for once again attacking the scientific theory...4/4
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National
(CBS News) In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff -- ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom...4/3
(ABC News) ...One L. Goh, 43, was being cooperative with police about why he killed seven students and wounded three others, but "he has not been particularly remorseful," Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said...4/3
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Two West Knox County homeowners filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority in federal court Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to stop the utility's new tree-cutting policy from reaching their neighborhood...4/3
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US integrity effort hits troubled water
While the LHC Hunts Higgs, the Jefferson Accelerator Looks to Illuminate Mysterious 'Dark Photons'