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.

Recent discussions of methods by which biomass—grasses, trees, and other vegetation—could be turned into fuel makes a lot of sense in theory.

The humble alga, hated by boaters and pool owners, may someday help provide us with the raw machinery to power our appliances.

Radioactive dating is used to determine everything from the age of dinosaur fossils to Native American arrowheads.

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.

From above, Argonne’s rolling hills are green with forests; but the research going on in the labs tucked into the trees is ​“green” in another sense.

It may not be rocket science, but it’s close.