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(EurekAlert) PHYSICS – Fueling discovery . . . MATERIALS – Films of remarkable order . . . SENSORS – Palladium power . . . ENERGY – An inside look . . . .7/21
(WBIR-TV) Oak Ridge High School Science teacher Sharon Thomas wanted to show her students how science is really done by bringing them into two world renowned facilities which just happened to be close by, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee....7/21 |
 (Fast Company) As the U.S. slowly abandons its dams, more and more pilot programs pop up for deriving power from tides and river currents. "There's a lot of electricity to be had from these devices and probably fewer environmental impacts, says Glenn Cada, senior researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.....7/20
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) As part of the Obama Administration's effort to support and empower the next generation of American clean energy entrepreneurs, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced $2 million in available funding for the National University Clean Energy Business Challenge....7/21
(Knoxville News Sentinel) More than a year after announcing plans to combine the management contracts at two of its nuclear weapons production plants — Y-12 in Oak Ridge and Pantex near Amarillo, Texas — the government finally launched a contract competition....7/21
(Knoxville News Sentinel) "We would love to have this doubling of the budget that was promised us . . . the promise by Obama that he would double our budget . . . and that really hasn't happened in any way or form. . . It's an interesting time. But, in Washington, it's always an interesting time...."7/22 |
National
(Reuters) Efforts to avoid an unprecedented U.S. default enter crunch time on Friday, with President Barack Obama and top lawmakers engaged in a sometimes chaotic drive to strike a sweeping deficit-reduction deal....7/22
(Washington Post) Top Pentagon leaders will say Friday that the military is ready to permit gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military, allowing President Obama to formally end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, according to a U.S. official and others familiar with the plans....7/22
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(Popular Science) These ten awe-inspiring science projects range from the world's largest undersea observatory to the "ultimate microscope" to a Jupiter orbiter on a suicide mission--but they're all massive, often in both size and scope....7/19
(BBC) The giant asteroid Vesta is revealing more of itself to the US space agency's Dawn mission....7/22
(Wired) The cataclysmic extinctions that scoured Earth 200 million years ago might have been easier to trigger than expected, with potentially troubling contemporary implications....7/21