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Protecting the homeland ORNL Global Security Directorate's Gresalfi is facilitator, catalyst Feb. 28, 2013 — Michael Gresalfi's long list of awards and recognitions is noteworthy, but what he cares about the most is protecting against nuclear, chemical or biological weapons attacks on U.S. soil.
Doubts melt ORNL researchers and 'Chasing Ice' director deliberate on disappearing glaciers at Knoxville screening Feb. 28, 2013 — Glaciers thrice as tall as the Empire State building calve, crumble, and careen into the sea during Chasing Ice, a film in which National Geographic photographer James Balog chronicles the rapid disappearance of Arctic ice as Earth's average temperature rises.
ORNL's RABiTS technology enables record-setting performance with iron-based superconducting wires Promising work toward simple, low-cost, super-efficient cable Jan. 16, 2013 — A technology invented at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for manufacturing copper-oxide based high-temperature superconducting materials has been used to make an iron-based superconducting wire capable of carrying very high electrical currents under exceptionally high magnetic fields.
ORNL helps kick off 2013 FIRST robotics season in East Tennessee Lab mentors share manufacturing expertise with local students Jan. 7, 2013 — Students from dozens of area high schools piled into Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility Jan. 5 to get a sense of the obstacles they will be battling over the next six weeks. Hundreds of students, parents and mentors attended the kickoff event for the 2013 FIRST robotics competition, a nationwide event in which students design and build complex robots that can tackle the challenges of a specially designed game.