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(Tennessean) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is participating in ethanol studies, including one in which 82 vehicles would each be driven between 50,000 and 120,000 miles using different blends of ethanol and gasoline. Brian West, deputy director of fuels, engines and emissions research, said the data for the study should be gathered by the end of the year and the results published soon after....2/12
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Once again, there are a series of nature walks planned for the Oak Ridge reservation this spring. According to info released by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, there'll be one walk in March, two in April, and one in May and and June....2/11 |
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Oak Ridge National Laboratory will play a supporting role on this Sunday's "Extreme Makeover, Home Edition," as the lab's energy efficiency whiz Jeff Christian injected advanced technology and a giving spirit to the show's school and home projects in Washington, D.C....2/11
(MSN Money) The $95 million project includes $58 million in construction costs, said Cannon Design, which will provide planning, architecture and engineering services for the 160,000-square-foot multi-program Laboratory Facility to house the laboratory’s chemical sciences, materials science and technology divisions....2/11 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) There has been a lot of second-guessing about the strategy and cost of the Oak Ridge project, especially by some of the companies that looked at the sites years ago and said it would cost a billion dollars -- or possibly much more -- to take those uranium-enrichment dinosaurs down safely....2/11
East Tennessee
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) TVA’s 29 hydroelectric dams are generating nearly three times as much power as normal in the current fiscal year because of above average rain and snowfall, TVA President Tom Kilgore said today....2/11 |
National
(Christian Science Monitor) Senate majority leader Harry Reid says he's focused on a leaner bill that will 'create jobs immediately.' He's also aware that voters are angry with the way government is working, particularly in terms of federal budget deficits....2/12
State & Regional
(Tennessean) Four nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority board breezed through an abbreviated confirmation hearing Tuesday, with each voicing support for expanded nuclear power and the proposition that man-made pollution is contributing to global climate change....2/12
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energy & science policy
(Newsweek) Kerri Richardson, a spokeswoman for Gov. Steve Beshear, says storing other states' waste "would certainly attract a lot of interest from our administration."
science & technology
 (New York Times) The genome of a man who lived on the western coast of Greenland some 4,000 years ago has been decoded, thanks to the surprisingly good preservation of DNA in a swatch of his hair so thick it was originally thought to be from a bear....2/11 [Registration Required]
 (Wired) Using the light from 1,857 stars, a team of French and American astronomers were able to measure the density of the gas surrounding our sun by examining fine differences in the starlight. They confirmed the presence of the Local Cavity, represented by the white area above, which scientists think was swept of gas by an old supernova explosion....2/12
 (BBC News) Researchers in the US say they have detected two signals which could possibly indicate the presence of particles of dark matter....2/12
(NPR) This week marks the 20th anniversary of a photograph. It's a very dramatic photo, even though, at first glance, it's mostly dark and seems to show nothing at all....2/12
(NPR) People have probably stuttered as long as humans have been able to speak. There's even an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for stuttering. Now scientists say they know why — at least some of the time. A report published online by the New England Journal of Medicine documents the first genes strongly linked to stuttering....2/11
Other Stories
 (USA Today) Just in time for Valentine's Day, research suggests eating chocolate may have a positive impact on stroke....2/12
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