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Nobel Laureate launches Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series
Source: ORNL News Release
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2013 – Four Nobel Laureates are among nine lecturers who will be participating in the new Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series in Science, Technology, and Policy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Albert Fert, recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, opens the series on Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. in the Iran Thomas Auditorium at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source. Read more ….
The women in Congress who could lead to a budget deal
Source: Joann Weiner | The Washington Post
Women in Congress played an outsized role in ending the government shutdown earlier this month. But the solution only funded federal agencies through mid-January. This week, as lawmakers grapple with a new round of budget negotiations t0 fund the government past Jan. 15, female senators and representatives could take center stage once more. Read more….
Bio-ink used to print tissue
Source: Science Daily
Oct. 24, 2013 — What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs. Now scientists have further refined the technology and are able to produce various tissue types. Read more ….
TVA’s Bellefonte faces an uncertain future
Source: Dave Flessner | Chattanooga Times Free Press
HOLLYWOOD, Ala. — The 500-foot high, hyperboloid-shaped cooling towers rise over the rolling hills along the Tennessee River, shaping the physical and potentially the economic landscape of Northeast Alabama.The twin towers and the high-voltage lines that crisscross the unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant stand as the most visible symbols of one of America’s largest unfinished construction projects— and perhaps the last of a generation of nuclear plants of their type. Read more …. |
