en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/library/ornlnews/ News items about or related to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These items do not reflect the opinions or views of ORNL staff or management. webmaster@ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov/info/library/ornlnews/ http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/rss/ornl_in_the_news.gif Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/feb/09/worlds-no-1-computer-has-long-list-of-tasks/ (Knoxville News Sentinel) Being fast is important - and having the world's fastest computer is even better - but it's what you do with that speed that really counts, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's scientific computing chief. Jeff Nichols said the lab's Jaguar Cray XT5 supercomputer, which was certified in November as No. 1 on the Top 500 list, will be used for research projects to secure the nation's energy future and tackle other daunting challenges - such as global climate change...2/9 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.ciol.com/Semicon/Special-Report/News-Reports/Breakthrough-in-high-temp-superconductivity/8210131145/0/ (CIOL.com) Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory say they have found evidence that high-temperature superconductivity derives from the same mechanisms irrespective of materials...According to Mark Lumsden, lead researcher, magnetic interactions provide the 'glue' that binds the electrons together, The pairing up of electrons, Lumsden says, is crucial for the formation of the macroscopic quantum state that gives rise to superconductivity...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2010/02/proposals_due_for_noaas_climat.html (Knoxville News Sentinel) Proposals were due today from vendors interested in providing a high-end supercomputer for use in climate studies. In July 2009, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration signed an agreement with DOE/ORNL in which NOAA committed to funding for a new computer and ORNL said it would provide research collaboration and technical support for the supercomputer -- as well as host the machine at the lab's National Center for Scientific Computing. Climate change is to be the focus of the work...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.oakridger.com/opinions/x1522835192/Y-12-and-the-National-Park-Service-Study (Oak Ridger) On Jan. 25, 2010, a somewhat unusual and potentially very important visit for interpreting our history was made to portions of Y-12...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html?hp=&pagewanted=print (NY Times) Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist???s version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations??? climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore...2/9 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2010-02-08-obama-global-warming_N.htm (USA Today) The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2010/02/stay_rates_for_foreign_phds_re.html (Knoxville News Sentinel) For the past couple of decades, Mike Finn, an economist at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, has analyzed the stay rates of foreign nationals receiving their doctoral degrees in science and engineering in the United States...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2010/02/walls_come_tumbling_down_at_y-.html (Knoxville News Sentinal) The walls of Building 9735 were bulldozed into submission Monday, as the first of several demolition projects funded by the Recovery Act got under way at the Y-12 National Security Complex...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/feb/08/ut-report-tennessee-economy-slowly-recovering/ (Knoxville News Sentinal) Tennessee???s economy is slowly on the mend, but it likely will be another two years before it fully recovers from the recession, University of Tennessee economists said today in the 2010 Economic Report to the Governor...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/middleeast/10iran.html?hp=&pagewanted=print (NY Times) Brushing aside international calls for stricter sanctions against it, Iran was reported on Tuesday to have begun enriching its stockpile of uranium for use in a medical reactor to a higher level of purity, raising the stakes again in its dispute with the United States and other countries over its nuclear program...2/10 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=56251 (Daily Beacon) External research funding at UT increased more than $175 million for fiscal year 2009, more than doubling the total of fiscal year 2008 and setting a record. This year the university is on track to break its own record...2/9 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/feb/09/garden-activist-gives-out-thousands/ (Knoxville News Sentinel) Chilly temperatures and a waning bout of bronchitis didn't slow 93-year-old Maria Compere. The lifelong gardening activist and a crew of 20 volunteers spent their Saturday passing out 80,000 free tulip bulbs as part of a Pellissippi Beautification Committee giveaway...2/9 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/08/corn-ethanol-obama-technology-ecotech-biofuels.html?boxes=Homepagechannels (Forbes) Score another one for the corn farmers. Corn ethanol has long been ridiculed as a vote-getting farmer-subsidy program that does little or nothing to help the nation reduce its dependence on foreign oil or cut its greenhouse gas emissions...2/9 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://news.discovery.com/tech/nuclear-fuel-thorium-green.html (Discovery News) Using hollow cubes of a new, safer nuclear fuel, scientists show they can soak up and remove radioactive uranium...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638391318085158.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth#printMode (Wall Street Journal) For a lot of small-business owners, cloud computing is the latest IT buzzword to leave them scratching their heads...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4344981.html (Popular Mechanics) Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the world's first solar-powered circuit in a January edition of ACS Nano...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/better-place-israel/ (Wired News) Shai Agassi boldly predicts one-third of Israel???s cars will run on electricity within five years. It would be an outlandish claim if the entrepreneur hadn???t lined up a sweet plan to jump-start the country???s adoption of EVs...2/8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6171F420100208 (Reuters) The producer of one in four of the world's lights, which sold its semiconductor business in 2006 after it was undercut by Asian rivals, has invested more than 4 billion euros ($5.47 billion) to ride the clean-tech wave and defend its world-leading position...2/8