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 (Net News Publisher) More than 34,000 youngsters, teachers and parents around the country have had a chance to learn about bioenergy through hands-on experiments that are part of an outreach effort by the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center....6/2
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(PhysOrg) TRANSPORTATION -- Screening for safety... MICROSCOPY -- Virtual resonance... CLIMATE -- Informing decision makers....6/2
(R & D Magazine) Physicists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, and Germany's GSI in Darmstadt recently used ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer to explore the pair bonding of neutrons in one uncommon isotope—germanium-72....6/2 |
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DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Reports have been circulating for more than a month about changes in the works at DOE's Oak Ridge office, and Interim Manager Paul Golan today began addressing some of those changes publicly....6/2
Other Stories
(Government Computer News) A continuing series of high-profile security breaches, capped by reports that the Google Gmail accounts of some government and industry officials have been compromised, illustrates the need for agencies to focus on the basics of cybersecurity....6/2
(Wall Street Journal) People who work at the White House were among those targeted by the China-based hackers who broke into Google's Gmail accounts....6/3
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National
(Reuters) U.S. employment probably lost steam in May as high energy prices and the effects of Japan's earthquake bogged down the economy....6/3
(Washington Post) The bacterium that has killed more than a dozen Europeans, sickened nearly 2,000 more and raised international alarms would be legal if it were found on meat or poultry in the United States....6/3
State & Regional
 (Tennessean) The TVA board will be asked this summer to approve completion of the long-dormant Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant, according to Tom Kilgore, the public power producer's president and CEO....6/3
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(Washington Post) Scientists have found complex, multi-celled creatures living a mile and more below the planet's surface – raising new possibilities about life on Earth and other planets and moons....6/1