(PhysOrg) Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology show that a recently discovered class of materials can be used to create a new kind of solar cell...The team from TU Vienna was assisted by Satoshi Okamoto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA) and Professor Giorgio Sangiovanni, a former employee of TU Vienna, who is now working at Würzburg University, Germany...2/12 |
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The University of Tennessee takes its STEM (science, technology, energy and math) responsibilities seriously...Since the start of the grant, at $65 million in 2007, UT has worked with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to add "significant computing capability" for researchers nationwide...These resources, combined with ORNL, have put Tennessee in the forefront as a site for supercomputing activities...2/12
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State & Regional
(AP) Georgia lawmakers are once again asking to redraw its northern border in the hope of getting water from the Tennessee River. The House of Representatives voted 171-2 on Tuesday to adopt a resolution seeking a thin strip of land leading to the river...2/12
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Sierra Club officials said Tuesday TVA could keep rates lower by retiring coal plants and making more use of energy efficiency for meeting power needs, than spending money installing scrubbers on the plants...2/13
(Tennessee Today) Linda Kah, an associate professor in earth and planetary sciences, has been working with NASA on the Curiosity rover mission to Mars for eight years. She will be discussing the mission at the Science Forum on Friday...2/112
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National
(Wall Street Journal) President Barack Obama outlined an ambitious agenda in his State of the Union address Tuesday that included raising the minimum wage, increasing spending on infrastructure, attacking climate change and passing gun-control legislation...2/12
DOE
(UPI) The U.S. Department of Energy said as much as $20 million is available in funding for cybersecurity research for the nation's energy infrastructure...2/12
(Newswise) The weakest link in many computer networks is a gullible human. With that in mind, Sandia National Laboratories computer science researcher Jeremy Wendt wants to figure out how to recognize potential targets of nefarious emails and put them on their guard...2/12
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