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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today the winners of the 2011 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for their outstanding contributions in research and development supporting the Department of Energy and its missions. Nine winners were named today in eight categories. Winners in each category will receive a gold medal, a citation and $20,000.

Today the US Department of Energy's Office of Science announced awards of nearly 1.7 billion processor hours to 60 high-impact research projects which will address scientific and engineering challenges of national and global importance.

The US Department of Energy is now supporting scientific research at unprecedented bandwidth speeds -- at least ten times faster than commercial Internet providers -- with a new network that connects thousands of researchers using three of the world's top supercomputing centers in California, Illinois and Tennessee. The network will be officially unveiled today in Seattle, Washington, at the gala opening of SC11 where researchers will use the network for groundbreaking climate data transfers and astrophysics visualizations.

Researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and MIT jointly launched today a groundbreaking online tool called the Materials Project, which operates like a "Google" of material properties, enabling scientists and engineers from universities, national laboratories and private industry to accelerate the development of new materials, including critical materials. With the Materials Project, researchers can use supercomputers to characterize properties of inorganic compounds. A database gives researchers at DOE's national labs access.

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the activation of an ultra-high speed network connection for scientists, researchers and educators at universities and National Laboratories that is at least ten times faster than commercial Internet providers.

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today congratulated Saul Perlmutter, a physicist at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, for winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. DOE's Office of Science has supported Perlmutter's research efforts at LBNL since 1983 and currently supports supernova surveys and several additional projects studying dark energy.

A battery that charges faster, lasts longer and runs more safely might arrive on the market within the next five years.

President Obama has named 13 US Department of Energy researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Powerful X-ray technology developed at the Department of Energy's national laboratories is revealing new insights into diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to the swine flu, and, most recently, enabled the discovery of a groundbreaking new drug treatment for malignant melanoma. The drug, Zelboraf (vemurafenib), received Food and Drug Administration approval on Wednesday. In showing the structures of diseased and disease-causing molecules, these light sources enable scientists to suggest potential new treatments.

A team of researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) have pinpointed the exact, single gene that controls ethanol production capacity in a microorganism. This discovery could be the missing link in developing biomass crops that produce higher concentrations of ethanol at lower costs.