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(HPC Wire) A first of its kind combination of experiment and simulation at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing a close-up look at the molecule that complicates next-generation biofuels...6/15 |
(R&D Magazine) Conventional wisdom suggests that when exposing a crystal to heat, the thermal energy within the crystal would spread uniformly across the lattice.
However, physicists have found that unlike the surface of water disturbed by a rock where energy spreads out in ripples, energy in a crystal can spontaneously localize in distinct nonlinear modes....6/15 |
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State & Regional
(NY Times) Spider webs line the 50-story cooling towers, parts have been amputated for the scrap value of their nickel or copper, and the control room still has analog dials at Bellefonte 1, a half-built nuclear plant here that was shelved 23 years ago...6/15
(NY Times)
The secret is out about this marvelously rare and very brief annual spectacle. About a thousand tourists a night come to Elkmont, a small trailhead in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, during the two weeks each June when the country’s largest population of synchronous fireflies puts on what locals call “the light show.”...6/15 |
National
(Reuters) The public website of the Central Intelligence Agency went down on Wednesday evening as the hacker group Lulz Security said it had launched an attack...6/15
East Tennessee
(Oak Ridger)
More than 50 years after the fact, misinformation still abounds about his famous father and his spy plane, Gary Powers Jr. said...6/16
DOE
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $359.1 million loan guarantee to Mesquite Solar 1, LLC to support the development of a photovoltaic solar generating project...6/15 |
