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(LaboratoryNetwork.com) Using ever-growing genome data, scientists with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are tracing the evolution of the bacterial regulatory system that controls cellular motility, potentially giving researchers a method for predicting important cellular functions that will impact both medical and biotechnology research. A new study from the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, a research venture between ORNL and UT, has demonstrated how knowledge of biological systems can be derived by computational interrogation of genomic sequences. The results have implications for areas ranging from medicine to bioenergy...7/12
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Thom Mason, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said the lab's Jaguar supercomputer -- a Cray XT5 system that's rated the world's fastest computer, capable of well in excess of 1,000 trillion calculations per second -- has been used to simulate the movement of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "We've had some involvement," Mason said. "Jaguar was used to do some modeling of the transport of the oil out of the Gulf and it gets into this loop current and runs around Florida and up the Eastern Seaboard and heads out to sea once it gets past North Carolina."...7/12
(The Car Connection) Last week's heat wave prompted another eruption of that perennial question: Won't electric cars that recharge from grid power overload the nation's electricity system? Or put more bluntly: Will electric vehicles bring down the U.S. power grid? The answer, equally bluntly, is: No. They won't...Two earlier, more limited studies from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory concluded essentially the same thing...7/12
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DOE
(Oak Ridger) "We'll have to put up a shelf," said one member of six subcontractor groups recognized Monday by the Y-12 National Security Complex during Y-12's annual Socioeconomic Programs Awards Luncheon...7/12
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced 43 cutting-edge research projects that aim to dramatically improve how the U.S. uses and produces energy...7/12
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Department of Energy researchers have won 39 of the 100 awards given out this year by R&D Magazine for the most outstanding technology developments with promising commercial potential. The coveted awards are presented annually in recognition of exceptional new products, processes, materials or software developed throughout the world and introduced into the market the previous year...7/9
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National
(Wall Street Journal) BP PLC said Monday night it had installed a new sealing cap that could halt the oil spewing from its broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, raising the possibility that a nearly three-month long environmental crisis could soon be contained...7/13
State & Regional
(Chattanoogan.com) The State Building Commission today approved Chattanooga-based Signal Energy as the design/build contractor for the West Tennessee Solar Farm to be located along Interstate 40 in Haywood County...7/8
(Fisk News) For a third time, Fisk University has received one of the most highly regarded science and technology awards for its groundbreaking development of hypersensitive crystals used in the detection of radiation. Fisk is the only minority serving institution to ever win the coveted recognition...7/8 |
Navy Weighs Ship's Design, Along With Its Own Future