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March 18, 2013
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on clean energy at Argonne National Laboratory’s Nanoscale Materials Center in Lemont, Ill., March 15, 2013. | Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy
President Obama Visits the Argonne National Research Lab to Talk About American Energy Security

Research and development, at national labs like Argonne, could be threatened by the Sequester.

March 18, 2013
Graphic by <a href="http://energy.gov/diversity/listings/women-energy">Sarah Gerrity</a>.
Making STEM Personal: Introducing the Women @ Energy Series

Hear from women who work to solve some of the nation's toughest challenges through their careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and learn how you can follow in their footsteps.

March 15, 2013
Inside a clean room, Brookhaven physicists Ivan Bozovic (left) and Anthony Bollinger work on the molecular beam epitaxy system that produced the atomically perfect materials used in the study. | Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National Lab
Overcoming Resistance, and Lighting Up the World

Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics.

March 15, 2013
In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to create an Energy Security Trust Fund, which would free American families and business from painful spikes in gas prices. The President’s plan builds on an idea that has bipartisan support from experts including retired admirals and generals and leading CEOs, and it focuses on one goal: shifting America’s cars and trucks off oil entirely. | Infographic from the White House.
What You Need to Know About the Energy Security Trust

In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to create an Energy Security Trust Fund, which would free American families and business from painful spikes in gas prices. The President’s plan builds on an idea that has bipartisan support from experts including retired admirals and generals and leading CEOs, and it focuses on one goal: shifting America’s cars and trucks off oil entirely.

March 14, 2013
A mathematical formula discovered a decade ago in part by David H. Bailey (above), the Chief Technologist of the Computational Research Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was the basis for researchers to find the sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared.  | Photo Courtesy of Lawrence Berkely National Lab
Celebrating Pi Day

We are celebrating this Pi Day with a brief overview of the irrational and transcendental number known as Pi, with baked homophone.

March 13, 2013
Space X-ray Solves Mysteries of Black Holes

An international team including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists has definitively measured the spin rate of a supermassive black hole for the first time.

March 13, 2013
Learn how combined heat and power could strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, lower energy consumption and reduce harmful emissions. | Infographic courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.
Energy Department Turns Up the Heat and Power on Industrial Energy Efficiency

Learn how combined heat and power could strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, lower energy consumption and reduce harmful emissions.

March 12, 2013
Student teams present their ideas for improving commercial building efficiency before a panel of commercial real estate and energy experts. | Photo courtesy of Jessie Knapstein, the Energy Department.
Students Develop Innovative Solutions for Energy Efficient Buildings

As part of the second annual Better Buildings Case Competition, some of the country's brightest young minds presented their ideas on ways to cut energy waste and improve commercial building efficiency.

March 11, 2013
Since 1960, the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) has been one of the world's premiere particle accelerators, well known for the <a href="http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/" target="_blank">three Nobel Prizes</a> won as a result of research performed there. The AGS name is derived from the concept of alternating gradient focusing, in which the field gradients of the accelerator's 240 magnets are successively alternated inward and outward, permitting particles to be propelled and focused in both the horizontal and vertical plane at the same time. In this 1958 photo, giant magnets await installation into the AGS accelerator ring tunnel at Brookhaven National Laboratory. | Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Photo of the Week: The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron

Check out our favorite energy-related photos!

March 11, 2013
Assistant Secretary Chris Smith meets with UT undergraduate students studying geological research. | Photo by David M. Stephens, The University of Texas at Austin.
Building Connections with State Researchers

Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Chris Smith travels to Texas to spread the message of smart and sustainable fossil energy development.