Diesel engines, long confined to trucks and ships, are garnering more interest for their fuel efficiency and reduced carbon dioxide emissions relative to gasoline engines.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin joined officials from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago at a groundbreaking event Friday, June 3, for a new Energy Sciences Building at Argonne.
A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated a method that could produce cheaper semiconductor layers for solar cells.
It may be hard to believe, but the beloved gasoline engine that powers more than 200 million cars across America every day didn’t get its status because it’s the most efficient engine.
2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity, the ability of some materials to conduct electricity with zero energy loss when cooled to extremely low temperatures.