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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Both the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the Spallation Neutron Source started up this week following outages for maintenance and repairs. Collectively, the two facilities make Oak Ridge the world's No. 1 place to do neutron-based research and a leading center for materials studies....8/3 |
(MIT) Supporting a controversial theory about how water behaves in confined spaces, Yang Zhang, now the Clifford G. Shull Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was able to probe the density of supercooled water molecules using a neutron beam from a reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology....8/1 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) SUNPATH, which stands for Scaling Up Nascent PV At Home, represents the second solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Initiative supporting the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative....8/2
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) TVA on Tuesday unveiled sweeping plans to convert a disaster zone still in cleanup mode into public areas featuring a new park, recreational area and walking trails near wetlands fed by natural springs....8/3 |
National
(New York Times) A massive cyber attack that lasted up to five years infiltrated computers and stole United Nations data....8/3
(Washington Post) A bipartisan panel, to be named this month, is likely to confront the same ideological divide that caused an almost crippling impasse in the debt-limit debate....8/3
State & Regional
(WBIR-TV) The debt deal signed into law Tuesday may have averted default, but it left a lot of Tennesseans unhappy....8/2 |
(New York Times) Trying to keep up with particle physics after a year of rumors and hints of what could be big discoveries is difficult unless you have a scorecard....8/2
(BBC) The idea that other universes - as well as our own - lie within "bubbles" of space and time has received a boost. Studies of the low-temperature glow left from the Big Bang suggest that several of these "bubble universes" may have left marks on our own....8/3