Department of Energy News

Reuter's investigative piece about the failed electric car startup Fisker Automotive is more fodder if Fisker's investors plan on taking their complaints to the courts.

Version 5.5 of the CUDA tools for the first time support ARM CPUs, which are broadly used in smartphones and tablets Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner.

A new report released Tuesday faults Washington state for lax oversight at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, saying the state employs too few inspectors and gives advance notice of inspections to the federal agency charged with managing the cleanup.

Tesla Motors said Thursday it would demonstrate a way to quickly recharge electric cars by swapping drained batteries for fresh power cells.

Police tend to a body found in Lake Lillinonah in Bridgewater, Conn. on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

RICHLAND, Wash. - A single advanced building control now in development could slash 18 percent - tens of thousands of dollars - off the overall annual energy bill of the average large office building, with no loss of comfort, according to a report by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Ten years ago, the United States made an investment in a new environmental idea of clean coal through a cutting edge project known as FutureGen.

A model of the truck that will be used to transport the Muon g-2 ring, placed on a streetscape for scale.

ON TAP TUESDAY: Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will get the chance to keep his Capitol Hill charm offensive rolling Tuesday at a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing.

The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane.

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has decided to scale back the search for a man missing in Lake Lillinonah in New Milford.

The Department of Energy confirmed there is going to be another round of oil price hike within the week due to a weaker peso and an uptick in the price of imported oil.

The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to execute 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

Sue Brigham s daughter, Jennifer Robinson, 36, is shown before and after treatment for a rare form of stomach cancer.

New Canaan High School students will hit the streets and waterways this summer as research fellows in the newly established Pesticide Educational Research Fellowship.

Despite their drawbacks, compact fluorescents have sold fairly well in the US. They save customers money.

Scientists on Long Island are preparing to move a 50-foot-wide electromagnet 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

The government created a stir this week when it said the power to run an electric vehicle costs only about one-third as much as the cost of gasoline to power a similar vehicle for the same distance.

Anti-nuclear and environmental groups are pressing Gov. Brian Sandoval to block shipments of potent uranium waste planned for burial at a government-managed site in Nevada.

Boats and dive teams were back in the water Saturday in a recovery effort to find a photographer who disappeared earlier in the week near Lover's Leap Park.