en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 21:01 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/story_tips.cfm Story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. webmaster@ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/rss/story_tips.gif Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT A new test facility recently installed at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could pay dividends for "big science" projects down the road, including the proposed International Linear Collider. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=90&Article=1 Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT Tractor-trailers operating with single wider tires recorded improved fuel efficiency numbers between 7.2 and 10 percent when compared to rigs operating on standard-sized dual tires. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=90&Article=2 Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT Fingerprints that used to escape detection could soon help point to the killer. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=90&Article=3 Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT Using pulsed thermal processing, low-cost thin-film solar cells could see efficiency gains of up to 50 percent, increasing from their current level of about 8 percent to 12 percent. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=90&Article=4 Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT Emergency management officials miles from the scene of an event will see exactly what first responders are up against with a system being tested at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=89&Article=1 Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT Super-secret encryption systems, personal identification data that cannot be stolen and enhanced sensors are just a few of the applications for a quantum optical chip being developed by Warren Grice and colleagues in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=89&Article=2 Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT Advanced gas reactors offer more efficient operation, less waste disposal and other benefits over water-cooled reactor designs used in U.S. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=89&Article=3 Fri, 9 May 2008 21:00:01 EDT Computer simulations published in April in Physical Review Letters have shown that pairs of proteins bound to each other undergo a profound change in their relative motion as they heat up, a phenomenon that could provide clues to how proteins interact to govern living cells. http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/rss_story_tip.cfm?ID=89&Article=4