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Oak Ridge National Laboratory News
When worlds collide
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:59am]
If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functions. No wonder it was considered a deity by countless ancient civilizations.
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ORNL, partners earn FLC honor for cookstove technology
[1 Feb 2012 at 10:00pm]
Envirofit International, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Colorado State University have won a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for excellence in technology transfer for a clean-burning cookstove designed for the developing world.
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Four startup companies use ORNL technology to compete in "America's Next Top ...
[31 Jan 2012 at 10:00pm]
Four startup companies, Borla Performance Industries, SH Coatings, TrakLok, Inc., and Woodmont Enterprises, are using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's technology to compete in the Department of Energy's "America's Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge," a competition where Americans vote online for the most innovative and promising startup companies that are using technologies from the Department's national laboratories to develop new products and businesses.
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Journal special issue features 6 ORNL collaborations
[30 Jan 2012 at 1:55pm]
Six neutron sciences research collaborations at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are featured in "Dynamics of Water and Glass-Forming Liquids," a special issue of Journal of Physics Condensed Matter.
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Metadynamics technique offers insight into mineral growth and dissolution
[22 Jan 2012 at 10:00pm]
By using a novel technique to better understand mineral growth and dissolution, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving predictions of mineral reactions and laying the groundwork for applications ranging from keeping oil pipes clear to sequestering radium.
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Neutron scattering provides window into surface interactions
[16 Jan 2012 at 10:00pm]
To better understand the fundamental behavior of molecules at surfaces, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are combining the powers of neutron scattering with chemical analysis.
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Fuel for fusion
[5 Jan 2012 at 11:37am]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Fusion Pellet Fueling Lab has been at the center of design and testing of plasma fueling systems for tokamak research applications for decades. Since the mid-1970s, lab researchers have been designing, testing and contributing hardware for fusion magnetic confinement experiments here in the United States and around the world. As the US ITER project moves from design and testing of components to manufacturing, the lab is making prototypes for the ITER tokamak. ITER's "first plasma" is planned for around the close of this decade.
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January 2012 Story Tips
[18 Jan 2012 at 12:05pm]
Story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The latest tips include:
"Environment - Permafrost peril," "Biofuels - Coast Guard going green," "Materials - Revealing artifacts? secrets," "Materials - Unexpected excitations," "Soft Matter - Tracking cell death protein"
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Delivering the Science
[7 Oct 2011 at 9:17am]
This issue of the ORNL Review illustrates how we are leveraging public and private resources to strengthen our research portfolio and accelerate the translation of innovation to the marketplace.
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Smart Truck
[7 Oct 2011 at 9:17am]
Designing a Smart Truck with the power of Jaguar.
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A Bioenergy Ecosystem
[7 Oct 2011 at 9:17am]
BioEnergy Science Center partnerships translate research and development into biofuels.
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Power from the Sea
[7 Oct 2011 at 9:17am]
Innovation at the crossroads of global security and green energy.
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Impact at a Glance
[7 Oct 2011 at 9:17am]
ORNL's Jaguar is DOE's flagship supercomputer.
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A Closer View: Mike Paulus
[7 Oct 2011 at 9:17am]
ORNL's Technology Transfer Division Director, Mike Paulus is responsible for ensuring that the lab's technological developments are accessible to U.S. business and industry so they can make the fullest use of the nation's investment in research and development.
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[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(ORNL News Release) Jerry Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distinguished Scientist in the BioSciences Division, has been named Forest Biotechnologist of the Year by the Institute of Forest Biotechnology (IFB)...2/5
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"Science and Engineering Indicators 2012" Released
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(AIP) "This information clearly shows we must re-examine long-held assumptions about the global dominance of the American science and technology enterprise."'' These comments by National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh came on the day that the National Science Board released "Science and Engineering Indicators 2012," a 575-page report measuring and characterizing RD, education, workforce, academic, public attitudes and state data...2/3
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Removing risks in the heart of Oak Ridge National Lab
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(Oak Ridger) The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is widely considered one of the Department of Energy's premier research facilities, with world-leading programs in neutron sciences, materials, biology, and computational sciences. Due to the historic growth of the past decade, many of the new programs and facilities lie in close proximity to radiological legacies left from research activities conducted in the 1950s and 1960s in the lab's older central campus...2/3
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Outsourcing raises eyebrows; overnight guests few
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(Knoxville News Sentinel) By Department of Energy standards, it was a relatively small contract, valued at about $15.8 million over five years, but the recently awarded contract was of interest because it involved the outsourcing of uranium work from the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge...2/6
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Reshuffling follows complaints from businesses about TDEC permits
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(WBIR) The Haslam administration has shaken up the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, removing two top officials, combining several divisions and cutting more than 150 jobs. The heads of the divisions responsible for managing water quality and solid waste were fired this week. A third official has announced plans to retire at the end of the month, TDEC said in an email and statement released Friday afternoon...2/4
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Private sector payrolls and jobs are up
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(Christian Science Monitor) Today's Employment Situation Report indicated that in January, net nonfarm payrolls increased with private nonfarm payrolls adding 257,000 jobs and the unemployment rate declining to 8.3% over the same period...2/5
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K-25 demolition continues, but history agreement holds key to finishing project
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(Knoxville News Sentinel) K-25, the world's largest building at the time of its construction in World War II, is getting smaller by the day as workers ' using an armada of bulldozers, cranes and other tools of demolition ' take down the brawny facilities that once processed uranium for atomic bombs and nuclear reactors...2/6
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"Science and Engineering Indicators 2012,"
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(Science Daily) One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain...2/3
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Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(National Geographic) Two new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, bringing the Jovian family count up to 66 natural satellites, astronomers revealed this week. Currently known as S/2011 J1 and S/2011 J2, the new moons were first identified in images acquired with the Magellan-Baade Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on September 27, 2011...2/2
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Namibia sponge fossils are world's first animals: study
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(PhysOrg) Scientists digging in a Namibian national park have uncovered sponge-like fossils they say are the first animals, a discovery that would push the emergence of animal life back millions of years...2/6
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Brown U. Student Uncovers Lost Malcolm X Speech
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(ABC News) The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America's top diplomats...2/5
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To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood...
[6 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm]
(Popular Science) Scores of animals exist in scientific laboratories for the purpose of serving as our proxies, their cortices mapped and their flu responses studied so scientists can figure out how humans work. But in many cases, there's little agreement between their functions and ours, and scientists need to figure out how to draw useful comparisons...2/5
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Texas congressman Ralph Hall visits ORNL
U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and the oldest member in Congress, was in town Tuesday for his first tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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