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(Insciences) Climate scientists recognize that climate modeling projections include a significant level of uncertainty. A team of researchers using computing facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a new method for quantifying this uncertainty. The new approach suggests that the range of uncertainty in climate projections may be greater than previously assumed. One consequence is the possibility of greater warming and more heat waves later in the century under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) high fossil fuel use scenario...10/21
(The Daily News) Imagine looking at a piece of hair that had been split 10,000 times. Or being able to view an entire car engine under a microscope. Students and instructors at Western Kentucky University will soon have those capabilities - the school was selected to receive a $2.5 million scanning electron microscope from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
The microscope is one of only two like it in the United States and 10 in the entire world...10/21
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(Tech Trends) The DASH7 Alliance, a coalition of organizations promoting a standard for wireless sensor networks, today announced that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has placed its first order for DASH7 active RFID tracking technologies. The order comes under the DoD's $429.4 million RFID III procurement contract, and includes products from three vendors - Evigia, IDENTEC Solutions and Savi Technology, which are all members of the DASH7 Alliance...The DASH7 Alliance is a coalition of organizations from multiple industries that are committed to collaborating on the promotion of wireless sensor technologies based on the ISO18000-7 standard for active Radio Frequency Identification...The U.S. Department of Energy and three of its laboratories, the Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as well as the University of Pittsburgh, plan to serve as technical advisors...10/21 |
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State & Regional
(The Tennessean) A state fish hatchery could begin construction within a year in East Tennessee after the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency got approval to move ahead on design.
The State Building Commission has approved funding to solicit bids for detailed architectural plans. TWRA Regional Manager John Gregory said he expects the agency to get the bids and begin building within a year's time...10/21
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) A new discovery at the Gray Fossil Site and Natural History Museum is likely to pique the interest of the scientific world. A complete and articulated juvenile tapir specimen, estimated at between 4.5 and 7 million-years-old, was found in August. Today it was covered in plaster for transportation to the lab inside, where it will then be thoroughly examined...10/21
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The United States Environmental Protection Agency announced three alternatives Wednesday for the cleanup of the portion of the Kingston fly ash spill outside the Emory River...10/22 |
National
(Wall Street Journal) The Chinese government is ratcheting up its cyberspying operations against the U.S., a congressional advisory panel found, citing an example of a carefully orchestrated campaign against one U.S. company that appears to have been sponsored by Beijing...10/22
DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health today recommended that Oak Ridge Hospital workers, 1950-59, be desigated a Special Exposure Cohort, NIOSH spokeswoman Shannon Bradford said...10/21
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Y-12 has transferred 20 tons of stainless steel valued at more than $1 million to the U.S. Army's Research, Engineering and Development Command at Picatinney Arsenal in New Jersey...10/21 |
