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 (PhysOrg) Led by Steven Brown of DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center has pinpointed a single, key gene in a microbe that could help streamline the production of biofuels from non-food sources....8/15
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 (Science Daily) "If we can find a way to understand the operation of the fuel cell on the basic elementary level and determine what will make it work in the most optimum fashion, it would create an entirely new window of opportunity for the development of better materials and devices," said Amit Kumar, a research scientist at ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences....8/15
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State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) University of Tennessee officials on Monday informed 44 employees running nutrition education programs across the state that their jobs would be eliminated on Sept. 30 because federal grant funding was cut....8/16
(Tennessean) Tennessee Valley Authority board members are looking with favor on nuclear power as they prepare to vote Thursday on whether to complete a nuclear reactor at the Bellefonte site 110 miles southeast of Nashville....8/15 |
National
(Reuters) President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce fresh steps to boost rural hiring on the second day of a bus tour through the U.S. heartland to explain his economic and job policies to anxious voters....8/16
Other Stories
 (NPR) Engineers have proposed a way to provide plentiful water to places where it is in short supply: processing local waste water to make it clean and drinkable. The science suggests that water reuse can be made safe, but the public often balks at the thought. The reason, say psychologists, is a phenomenon called psychological contagion....8/16
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(BBC) A dark alien world, blacker than coal, has been spotted by astronomers. The Jupiter-sized planet is orbiting its star at a distance of just five million km, and is likely to be at a temperature of some 1200C....8/12
(Science Daily) Atmospheric chemists at the University of California, San Diego, report the first quantitative measurement of the amount of radiation leaked from the damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this year....8/15