An alloy that may improve high-temperature electronics in oil and geothermal wells was really a solution in search of a problem.

President Barack Obama announced a major energy proposal during a visit to Argonne National Laboratory on Friday, March 15.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will present Mung Chiang of Princeton University with this year's Alan T. Waterman Award. Chiang is an electrical engineering professor who uses innovative mathematical analyses to design simpler and more powerful wireless networks.

A technology that will allow widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles without negatively impacting the electrical grid is the subject of a commercial license agreement between Battelle and AeroVironment, Inc., of Monrovia, Calif.