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 (Newswise) Budhendra Bhaduri and Sheng Dai of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named UT-Battelle corporate fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to their scientific and technical fields....6/9
(Knoxville News Sentinel) [Video] Color film footage uncovered in recent months at Oak Ridge National Laboratory includes extraordinary scenes of construction workers busy building production plants, support facilities and the town site that were essential to US. development of the first atomic bomb....6/9 |
 (University of Washington) The challenge was to formulate the proper mathematical problem and then find a computer that could work through the problem as the number of variable changes reached 1 trillion or more. To reach its solution, the team in the last year used the Jaguar computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory....6/9
(Science Daily) Polish scientists from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, have built a unique detector that has made it possible to observe atypical decays of one of the isotopes of nickel. The experiment was conducted at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in Michigan with the collaboration of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory....6/9 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today announced the offer of a conditional commitment to provide a partial guarantee for a $350 million loan for a geothermal power generation project....6/9
East Tennessee
(Oak Ridger) This is the story of how the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission transformed the war-time built, temporary "Secret City" of Oak Ridge into one Oak Ridgers were willing to take over from the government -- own, run, and pay for....6/9 |
National
(Washington Post) In his final policy speech as Pentagon chief, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates questioned the viability of NATO, saying its members' penny-pinching and lack of political will could hasten the end of U.S. support....6/10
Other Stories
 (NPR) Two new elements were officially added to the periodic table this month. The elements were discovered years ago, but they needed approval from an international committee before they could be placed on the famous chart....6/10
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(Washington Post) Germany's ambitious plan to eliminate nuclear power over the next decade has energized environmentalists, but the country faces a tricky task if it wants to keep its promise to reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming, analysts say....6/10
(PhysOrg) [Video] NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system....6/10
(Popular Mechanics) Graphene, the material made of a single layer of carbon atoms, may be a step closer to reaching its potential: IBM researchers announced that they have created the first graphene integrated circuit. ...6/9