Cold atom physics is the type of research for which former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu won a one-third share of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics. NASA’s contribution to the field will be ...

I'd rather be living near a nuclear power plant," Energy Secretary Steven Chu tells Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep. A nuclear plant, he says, produces less pollution and U.S. nuke plants ...

WASHINGTON -- Physicist Steven Chu, President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Department of Energy, softened previously critical comments about coal and nuclear power, and distanced himself ...

Steven Chu, who is leaving his position as secretary ... notably to study biology at the single-atom level. To his credit, he did important work to bring together the fields of biomedicine and ...

When Steven Chu took the reins of the Department of Energy in 2009, he was entering an agency that needed to completely reorient its outlook — and fast. Until Chu arrived, the department's ...

Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winner in physics ... “Climate models didn’t predict this,” Chu said about heat impacting the ocean. “We don’t know how long it will take cold oceans to warm up.” On a macro ...

Former U.S. secretary of energy Steven Chu would like to see us get to 50 percent ... away from the wind or rain, the hot and the cold, and they can use that energy storage in a distributed ...

Energy Secretary Steven Chu is stepping down. The Energy Department said Friday Chu has offered his resignation to President Barack Obama. Chu won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under ...