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UT Medical Center recognized with four awards

They're lifesavers for thousands of people across East Tennessee, and Tuesday they got some thank yous. The American Heart Association awarded UT Medical Center with four separate awards for patient care. The doctors and nurses weren't the only groups to see thanks for their work. "It's a team effort here and we take that to heart. There's a lot of people behind the ...
Blount man gets life with possibility of parole in murder of friend

The Blount County man convicted in April of killing and robbing his friend in 2010 will be 91 before he has the chance to walk out of prison a free man, officials ...
TVA car records found lacking

TVA plans to tighten its policies after an audit found a poor job of keeping records on vehicle allowances to employees and use of company ...
Developer spins a Bass tale

Bristol, Va., developer Steve Johnson, left, speaks with Knoxville developer David Dewhirst after an Urban Land Institute forum on June 18, 2013, at Club ...
Oak Ridge receives $200000 grant for LED lights

OAK RIDGE -- Most existing fluorescent lights in the Oak Ridge Central Services Complex, Civic Center and Municipal Building are being replaced and retrofitted with light-emitting diode lights through a grant, ...

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The Thirteenth Floor

There have been a number of American films in the last few years that have been built on the notion of questioning What is reality? These include "Dark City," which played with the idea of implanted memories, "The Truman Show," which gave us a TV studio masquerading as the real world, and, most recently, "The Matrix," with its alien-imposed, prison-like virtual world. What these films have ... ...

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Man charged with break-in at deputys home

A home burglary and stolen gun landed an Hawkins County man in jail. Investigators say Dustin Alan Caldwell broke into the home of a Hawkins County deputy while the deputy and his family were on vacation. When the family arrived home, Deputy Rusty Ferrell realized his "Glock 45 caliber service weapon" was missing. He called the sheriff's department, reported the burglary and ...
Cocke Co. school awarded grant for new pipes

(WBIR, Hartford) Governor Bill Haslam visited Cocke County Tuesday as part of the continuing effort to modernize Tennessee. Grassy Fork Elementary School received $500,000 to install pipes that will run from Newport into the school. Before now, the school was using well water as its source, which can have pollutants in it, risking a student's heath. Leaders say the new pipes are taking a ...
Update No serious injuries in West Knox I-40 crash

A Knoxville Police Department spokesperson says no one was seriously hurt during a late-morning crash along I-640W near I-40W in West Knoxville. The wreck happened Tuesday at I-640 Westbound near I-40. It involved a semi-truck and a sedan. KPD said the Nissan Sentra hit a large puddle of water, hydroplaned and went underneath the trailer portion of the semi-truck that was traveling west. The ...
AUDIO Pilot Flying J fraud victim talks guilty pleas

pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal case tied to the on-going fraud investigation into the company. The development marks a total of five guilty pleas in the case. Kevin Wallace Clark was among the three who pleaded guilty Tuesday. Clark handled an account for W.N. Morehouse Truck Line in Nebraska, the same company featured in ...
UT trustees will consider fracking proposal

The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees in October will take up a plan to lease the natural gas rights on the 8,600-acre Cumberland Forest in Morgan and Scott counties. The board will hear details of the plan before the university goes to the State Building Commission with a contract with a private company for the gas drilling, UT President Joe DiPietro said in a message Friday to ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

Hassan Rouhani

Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Paihia Beach Resort And Spa, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Driving along the main coastal highway, on the edge of the main township of Paihia, in the heart of the ...

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New sulfur-based battery outperforms traditional lithium-ion technology

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

The ORNL battery design, which uses abundant low-cost elemental sulfur, also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries.

"Our approach is a complete change from the current battery concept of two electrodes joined by a liquid electrolyte, which has been used over the last 150 to 200 years," said Chengdu Liang, lead author on the ORNL study published this week in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Scientists have been excited about the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries for decades, but long-lasting, large-scale versions for commercial applications have proven elusive. Researchers were stuck with a catch-22 created by the battery's use of liquid electrolytes: On one hand, the liquid helped conduct ions through the battery by allowing lithium polysulfide compounds to dissolve. The downside, however, was that the same dissolution process caused the battery to prematurely break down.

The ORNL team overcame these barriers by first synthesizing a never-before-seen class of sulfur-rich materials that conduct ions as well as the lithium metal oxides conventionally used in the battery's cathode. ...