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A Las Vegas business and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving the odds for people medically at risk from dehydration or congestive heart failure.

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1) MATERIALS -- Tougher teeth . . . 2) MATERIALS -- Boost for E85 . . . 3) NEUTRON SCIENCE -- Record cold . . . 4) TECH TRANSFER -- Marketing innovations . . .

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A water repellent developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory outperforms nature at its best and could open a floodgate of commercial possibilities.

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1) MATERIALS -- Ready, aim . . . 2) MEDICAL -- Back pain modeling . . . 3) ENERGY -- Supercharged solar panels . . .

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1) BIOMED -- Sensitive skin . . . 2) FORENSICS -- Better body bag . . . 3) CLIMATE -- Underground CO2 sinks . . . 4) ENERGY -- Steeper slopes . . .

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SensorPedia, a writeable Web site in development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, solves a huge problem by giving emergency responders and decision-makers access to data from diverse sensor networks in near real time.

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A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change.

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An international collaboration directed by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher has performed the first-ever atomic-detail computer simulation of how proteins vibrate in a crystal.

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Solar energy will be in the spotlight as researchers, engineers, architects and other renewable energy experts from the region convene at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oct. 24-25 for the first Southeast Solar Summit.

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1) MICROSCOPY -- A chorus of signals; 2) NEUTRONS -- Add another instrument; 3) ENERGY -- NASA costs eased; 4) GENETICS -- Tastes great; 5) ENERGY -- Dielectric flow

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The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world's most powerful accelerator based source of neutrons for scientific research.

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Mice that are part of the Collaborative Cross project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists around the world learn more about possible causes of drug abuse, diabetes, sleep disorders, stress and pain, kidney disease and a number of other conditions that affect millions of people.

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Homeowners could see their summer utility bills fall by 8 percent or more with a new roof and attic system being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Findings by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee bode well for using single-walled carbon nanohorns, a particular form of engineered carbon-based nanoparticles, for drug delivery and other commercial applications.

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1) INDUSTRY -- Going wireless . . . 2) COMPUTING -- Unleashed power . . . 3) ECOLOGY -- Sturgeon study . . . 4) MATERIALS -- Supersaturated steel . . .

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1) ENERGY-- Power forward . . . 2) ENVIRONMENT "“ Award-winning recipe . . . 3) HOMELAND SECURITY "“ Bio watchdog . . . 4) BIOLOGY "“ Eucalyptus sequencing . . .

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won six R&D 100 Awards, given annually by R&D Magazine to the year's most technologically significant new products.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Cray XT4 supercomputer, known as Jaguar, is now the second fastest system in the world, according to a semiannual list of the world's fastest computers.

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A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has won a bid from the Department of Energy for a $125 million bioenergy research center that will seek new ways to produce biofuels.

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1) ENERGY -- New life for reactors . . . 2) NANOSCIENCE -- A clean suite . . . 3) MATERIALS -- Super stainless steel . . . 4) ENERGY -- Wet, warm wall worries . . .

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Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are putting climate models to the test with particular focus on weather extremes.

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An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed technology collecting sunlight connected to special indoor light fixtures has earned an Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.

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UT-Battelle announced today the selection of Dr. Thom Mason as Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He follows a successful tenure since 2001 as Associate Lab Director for the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source.

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1) MEDICAL -- Atrial fibrillation alert . . . 2) ENERGY -- Huge industrial savings . . . 3) SENSORS -- Energy security . . .

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The research reactor at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is back in action and better than ever. After $70 million in renovations and more than a year of meticulous system checks, ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor was restarted this week, taken to 10 percent power, and reached its peak power of 85 megawatts Wednesday.

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Surveillance systems take on a new look with a technology developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Laser-Based Item Monitoring System balances the need for high-resolution monitoring and personal safety with respect for confidentiality and personal privacy.

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Increased levels of ozone associated with the release of greenhouse gases are causing vegetation to use more water and may intensify the effects of global warming on ecological systems.

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1) ENERGY -- Nanofiltered diesel; 2) ENVIRONMENT -- Leaf litter revelation; 3) GENOMICS -- Decoding data; 4) CLIMATE -- Precision predictions

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Nanotechnology may unlock the secret for creating highly efficient next-generation LED lighting systems, and exploring its potential is the aim of several projects centered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Pink slime at the surface of water trickling through an old mine in California is proving to be a treasure for researchers in their quest to learn more about how bacterial communities exist in nature.

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1) MATERIALS -- SNS's bright beginnings. . . 2) MATERIALS -- Coatings R Us. . . 3) CLIMATE -- Trees vs. temperature . . . 4) ENERGY -- Electricity from the sun . . .

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An electronic accountability system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will result in savings of more than $2 million per year at one federal facility alone and will ensure 100 percent accountability of employees.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory has opened a call for promising early- and growth-stage nanotechnology companies seeking venture capital to apply to present their business plans at the Nano Venture Showcase on April 4, part of a nanotechnology research and industry event to be hosted at the lab.

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1) ENERGY -- Hot savings; 2) ENERGY -- Microbial cost savings; 3) FORENSICS -- Dead giveaway; 4) NANOSCIENCE -- Atom-scale switch.

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Eight projects led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have been awarded more than 27 million hours of computing time at the lab's Center for Computational Sciences.

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A team of scientists using Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputers has discovered the first plausible explanation for a pulsar's spin that fits the observations made by astronomers.

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Determining with some precision when and where disasters are likely to strike is the focus of an Oak Ridge National Laboratory effort that ultimately could save lives.

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1) MILITARY-- Hot mission . . . 2) MATERIALS -- Lasers in a stir . . . 3) BIOENERGY -- Analyzing wood . . . 4) HOMELAND SECURITY -- Thwarting threats . . .

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A new five-year project headed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory is expected to lead to a more in-depth understanding of natural and other approaches to clean up contaminated sites around the nation.

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Temperature Materials Laboratory are helping diesel engine and parts manufacturers develop technologies to meet tough new emissions regulations that go into effect in 2007.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Thomas Thundat has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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1) ENGIINEERING -- Real world stress . . . 2) BIOLOGY -- Determining protein function . . . 3) ELECTRICITY -- Power to spare . . . 4) HOMELAND SECURITY -- Threat identification . . .

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With 54 teraflops of computing power, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT3 is helping solve scientific grand challenges, but scheduling the many research projects and keeping the massive machine operating at peak capacity are challenges of their own.

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A nationwide truck test that will include special monitoring equipment on six instrumented tractors and nine instrumented trailers was launched today from the National Transportation Research Center (NTRC) "“ a joint transportation research facility involving the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee.

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1) Emissions -- Ultra-low sulfur ; 2) Microscopy -- New understanding; 3) Transportation-- Ultralight transit bus; 4) Energy -- Easier hydrogen flow

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A nanotechnology-oriented forum bringing together academia, industry and budding entrepreneurs, will be held April 2-4, 2007, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Nano Nexus 2007 is designed to foster innovation and increase collaboration between universities, government, industry and the investment community "” all critical players for commercializing new nanotechnology.

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The High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has passed a major milestone in its quest to become one of the world's leading sources of "cold" neutrons for advanced scientific research.

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ORNL's new centerpiece for nanoscience research is now complete -- on scope, under budget and ahead of schedule. Equipped with world-class instruments and staffed by researchers in a variety of scientific disciplines, the nanoscience center allows researchers to create, test and characterize a variety of new materials at a molecular level.

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1) MATERIALS -- Monster cutters; 2) ENERGY -- Checking the grid; 3) NANOSCIENCE -- Flipping the spin; 4) MATERIALS -- Molecular electronics

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Climate modeling of tomorrow will feature precision and scale only imagined just a few years ago, say researchers David Erickson and John Drake of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computer Science and Mathematics Division.