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Kevin Harvick's NASCAR victory Sunday at the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway was helped with technical assistance provided by the High Temperature Materials Laboratory of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.HTML Director Arvid Pasto said the assistance his lab provided ...
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Gasoline prices are high, but not nearly high enough to curb demand, a fuel economy specialist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory says.
David Greene says that even if gas reached $4 per gallon, it would have little effect on how much people drive and how much ga...
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Residents of small communities could be better protected with a law enforcement communications system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.ORNL computer software engineer Garvin Morris, a city council member and police commissioner in Harriman, Tennessee, says the system would improve communi...
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The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will sponsor two one-week Science Explorers camps for elementary and middle school students this summer. The camps will be during the weeks of June 6-10 and June 13-17.
Science Explorers is designed for rising fifth, sixth and seventh grade...
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Improving performance of NASCAR circuit race cars is possible through ongoing work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.ORNL scientist Tom Watkins said NASCAR's Richard Childress Racing team, which includes driver Kevin Harvick, received assistance on resolving a valve spring problem prior to last raci...
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Pat Parr — who oversees natural resource management and land use planning integration at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory — has been elected vice-chair/chair-elect of the executive committee for the Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere Cooperative.
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Spring nature walks in the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park start Saturday with a walk to see waterfowl and winter birds near the ponds at East Tennessee Technology Park.
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Advanced computational methods and supporting experiments, including work performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are giving scientists a better understanding of the nature and stability of superheavy nuclei and the heaviest elements that lie beyond the borders of the periodic table.
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UT-Battelle is supporting the Secret City Commemorative Walk--a memorial to participants in the Manhattan Project who also built the city of Oak Ridge--with the purchase of a monument for the new park.Construction on the self-guided commemorative walk, described as an attractive, permanent and land...
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Millions of people at risk of becoming blind could one day be helped by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology originally intended to understand semiconductor defects.
The project takes advantage of the Department of Energy lab's proprietary content-based image retrieval t...