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 (PhysOrg) Tin may seem like the most unassuming of elements, but experiments performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are yielding surprising properties in extremely short-lived isotopes near tin-100's "doubly magic" nucleus. The international team of experimentalists and theorists was led by Iain G. Darby of the University of Tennessee, who is now in Belgium, and Robert Grzywacz, a physics professor at UT and a former Wigner Fellow at ORNL....10/21
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(TMCnet) A coalition of high-performance computing companies that consists of Cray, Inc., Data Direct Networks, Inc., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have embraced California-based nonprofit mutual benefit corporation Open Scalable File Systems. OpenSFS stated that it will support the requirements of the data-intensive computing community by fostering the practical development of HPC storage software technology....10/21 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Getting rid of Oak Ridge's nastiest nuclear wastes has proved harder than expected, and environmental regulators have agreed to give the U.S. Department of Energy more time to do that job. John Owsley, Oak Ridge oversight chief for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, confirmed that the state will OK schedule changes for processing transuranic wastes...10/21
East Tennessee
(Maryville Daily Times) Takatsugu Yamaguchi has been involved in connecting Japan's and Tennessee's economies since 1998. "I explain the location is good, the people are good and also the Oak Ridge National Lab is very close — there are many reasons. That's why DENSO chose Tennessee, and also many Japanese companies. Also, very sophisticated people, high-tech oriented people, especially around Oak Ridge National Lab, which is in your backyard — and also the airport that we have."...10/21 |
National
(Reuters) The United States sought to corral reluctant finance leaders into a deal that would commit emerging markets to cut their current account surpluses and allow their currencies to rise at a meeting on Friday....10/22
State & Regional
(Tennessean) As unemployment rates continue to fall, there is optimism that the worst of the recession is over. But for some, the unemployment rate — which in September was 9.4 percent in Tennessee, down from 9.6 percent the month before — doesn't give the whole story....10/22
Other Stories
 (BBC News) Biochemist and author Nick Lane has won this year's Royal Society Science Book Prize for Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution. However, Dr Lane will be the last to collect the Royal Society prize. After more than two decades of sifting through the annual offerings of popular science publishing, the award is closing down due to lack of funding....10/22
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(New York Times) Little fish are cautious and timid around big, hungry fish, and rightly so. But when populations of predators like tuna and shark shrink because of human fishing, small prey are more adventurous, according to a forthcoming study in The American Naturalist....10/22
(Wired) Drones, metal detectors, chemical sniffers, and super spycams — forget 'em. The leader of the Pentagon's multibillion military task force to stop improvised bombs says there's nothing in the U.S. arsenal for bomb detection more powerful than a dog's nose....10/22
(NPR) Following the summer's drought in Russia that sent wheat prices skyrocketing, scientists are studying ways to make one of the world's most important crops drought-resistant. And creative genetic engineering may hold the answer....10/22