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(Energy.gov) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is piloting the manufacture of carbon fibers from hardwood lignin, which could lead to lower-cost carbon fiber composites and lightweight, strong fiber composite panels for car bodies at the same cost as today's metal panels....5/19 |
 (EurekAlert) Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type of the protein that causes Huntington's disease....5/18
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) This partnership is part of DOE's broad strategy to expand the availability of advanced vehicles to American families to help protect them from future spikes in gas prices and reduce our nation's reliance on imported oil....5/19
East Tennessee
(WATE-TV) The 13-year cicadas have arrived in several parts of Blount and Loudon counties. Many people are unaware these bugs can cause serious damage to trees....5/19 |
National
(Washington Post) President Obama prodded Israel on Thursday to pursue a peace deal with the Palestinians based on boundaries defined more than half a century ago and urged Arab governments to carry out the democratic reforms their citizens have demanded....5/20
State & Regional
(Tennessean) A heated, four-hour debate ends with 59-39 vote to place stringent limits on terms that can be set in teachers' contracts. Lawmakers are on track to send a bill to the governor by week's end....5/20 |
(NPR) For years, scientists have wondered what evolutionary forces pumped up the mammal brain so much, and now they may have an answer: Mammals needed a better sense of smell....5/20
(Wired) Astronomers have announced a truly unique and new class of exoplanets: Jupiter sized planets that are in extremely large orbits or completely unbound from a host star altogether....5/20
(New York Times) The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project and a symbol of China's confidence in risky technological solutions, is troubled by urgent pollution and geologic problems, a high-level government body acknowledged Thursday....5/19