Energy

Extreme weather is getting worse — leading millions more to experience debilitating blackouts. Luckily, the home battery industry is booming.

Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of star system.

What is the status of our energy transition? Is our ability to fight climate change doomed?

How the market trends behind the expansion of solar and wind energy are too powerful to stop entirely.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin slammed New York's Climate Act advanced by Gov. Hochul and New York Democrats as "delusional" and a "left-wing recipe for an energy and economic…

Artificial intelligence uses massive power, and a study revealed its spike in global emissions and its effect on the environment.

Team working on project reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was running.

Nuclear power, for example, is reliable but inflexible, while energy from oil is flexible but polluting and costly.

President Trump's efforts to dismantle climate policies won't stop renewables from rising or fossil fuels from slowing, according to outlooks from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and BloombergNEF

'Habitability is a very fragile thing.'

The planet's first photosynthesizers dined on green light

Viral AI action figure selfies flood LinkedIn, but experts warn the trend drains energy and fuels carbon emissions with every GPU-powered image.

Out of sight, below the soil's surface, fungi play a vital role in the existence and health of our forests, woodlands, jungles, and prairies.

Everywhere you look these days, you're likely to hear declarations that cosmology — the science of what the Universe is made of, where it came from, how it got to be the way it is today, and what its…

Dark sky proponents mull the rights of nature to battle light pollution. Here's how it would work

We have the technology to make toilet water drinkable. Why aren't dry states using it to solve their water problems?

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Its

Will the Sun make a planetary nebula when it dies?. In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?.

Zero-emission, fuel-cell powered airplane would carry at least 100 passengers

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