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The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

After shutting it down in 2022, Michigan is making an abrupt u-turn and is now planning to reopen an old 1970s nuclear power.

Michigan Plotting to Re-Open Shuttered 1970s Nuclear Plant

By Sharon Adarlo

The multi-layered coating is not only thinner than the silicon cells typically used in solar panels, but rivals their efficiency, too.

Scientists Develop Solar Panel Material 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair

By Frank Landymore

A power geomagnetic storm that hit Earth on Monday created beautiful auroras that lit up the night sky during the Perseids meteor shower.

Severe Solar Storm Creates Stunning Auroras During Meteor Shower

By Frank Landymore

Mayonnaise may, according to a new study, help scientists figure out how to realistically harness the power of nuclear fusion.

Scientists Say Secret to Fusion May Lie in Hellmann’s Mayonnaise

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this month, a 360-foot blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Nantucket shattered. An oil spill is still far worse.

If You’re Upset About That Broken Wind Turbine, Remember the Time BP Spilled 210 Million Gallons of Oil Into the Gulf of Mexico?

By Victor Tangermann

A massive wind turbine blade shattered, leading to "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" threatening local beachgoers.

Beaches Covered in Shards and Debris as Giant Wind Turbine Shatters

By Victor Tangermann

While heat waves batter Europe, a million people in Southern Russia went without power due to a nuclear false alarm.

One Million Russians Lose Power When Alarm Goes Off at Nuclear Plant

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles has a fascinating new exhibit in the form of a mysteriously green dinosaur.

Scientists Intrigued by Dinosaur With Green Bones

By Victor Tangermann

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.

China Installs Giant Wind Turbine Built to Harness Power of Hurricanes

By Sharon Adarlo

Tony Robbins invested $200 million into breakthrough clean energy tech. Per the Wall Street Journal, proof that it works remains elusive.

Tony Robbins May Have Been Conned by a Mad Scientist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Japanese electronics corporation TDK says its new solid state batteries will replace the coin sized batteries found in wearable electronics.

Apple Battery Supplier Working on New Battery Material With 100 Times the Energy Density of Current Tech

By Frank Landymore

Energy prices in France turned negative following a surge in renewable output last week, causing a number of nuclear reactors to shut down.

Electricity Prices in France Just Turned Negative Because of Renewables

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a new way to store energy inside a modified concrete, a potential solution to a growing energy storage problem.

New Concrete That Stores Electricity Could Turn Whole Homes Into Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

A new study from Mayo Clinic shows that for folks with arrhythmia, sudden cardiac arrest and energy drinks often go hand-in-hand.

Study Finds That Cardiac Arrest Frequently Occurs After Consuming Energy Drink

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The supply of renewable energy is soaring across Europe and parts of the US, causing prices to go negative. Investors are becoming wary.

Capitalists Alarmed as Renewables Keep Making Electricity Temporarily Free

By Victor Tangermann

The architects behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai are teaming up with a startup to turn future skyscrapers into massive, gravity-powered batteries.

Designer of Burj Khalifa Now Working on Turning Skyscrapers Into Gravity-Powered Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.

The Sun Just Unleashed Yet Another Fierce Solar Flare, and It’s Only Getting Started

By Frank Landymore

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.

Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative

By Sharon Adarlo

The Blue Visby Solution proposes that cargo ships stop arriving way ahead of schedule and reduce their top speeds at sea to save fuel.

Renewable Energy

Ingenious Trick Cuts Cargo Ship Carbon Emissions by 17 Percent

By Frank Landymore

Tractors and other farm equipment broke down in the middle of planting season due to an extreme solar storm over the weekend.

Solar Storm So Powerful It Shut Down Farm Equipment Across the US and Canada

By Victor Tangermann

A new carbon capture facility that claims to be the biggest in the world, began sucking the carbon from the air in Iceland.

Renewable Energy

World’s Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time

By Victor Tangermann

A massive solar storm is blasting the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles, resulting in auroras that will be visible across the US.

Massive Solar Storm to Trigger Northern Lights Across North America

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA spacecraft with sails being propelled solely by the rays of the Sun just made contact with operators back on Earth.

NASA Prepares to Unfurl Large Solar Sail From Spacecraft in Orbit

By Sharon Adarlo

It's the "duck curve" problem. Solar power is providing huge amounts of energy during the day, creating a headache for grid operators.

California Now Has So Much Solar Power That Electricity Prices Are Going Negative During the Day

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there.

Scientists Say They’ve Found More Evidence of Hidden Planet in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA footage from the International Space Station shows a massive, looming cloud of darkness engulfing huge swathes of the United States.

The Solar Eclipse Looks Absolutely Wild From Space

By Victor Tangermann

South Korean researchers have maintained plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds inside a tokamak fusion reactor.

Korean “Artificial Sun” Reactor Sets Record at 100 Million Degrees

By Victor Tangermann

In England, researchers have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found.

Scientists Discover Bizarre and Ancient Fossilized Forest

By Sharon Adarlo

The report features six studies that thoroughly examined MIT's superconducting magnets design used in its breakthrough fusion test.

MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical

By Frank Landymore

A massive jet stream formed over the mid-Atlantic region this past weekend, pushing eastbound planes faster than the speed of sound.

Mighty Wind Propels Commercial Jets Faster Than Speed of Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

A plan to store nuclear waste in America's busiest oil field is a fascinating collision between fossil fuels and nuclear.

Please Don’t Store Nuclear Waste in Our Precious Oil Field, Says Fossil Fuel Industry

By Jon Christian

CNN reports that Russia is working on a nuclear-powered spacecraft designed to generate a huge energy wave that would knock out satellites.

Russian Nuclear Spacecraft Would Reportedly Attack With Massive Energy Wave

By Jon Christian

Last night's event was the first Super Bowl to be entirely powered by renewable energy, an impressive feat for a 65,000-person stadium.

Renewable Energy

The Entire Super Bowl Was Powered by Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have set a new fusion energy world record, producing 69 megajoules at the Joint European Torus in the UK.

Fusion Reactor Produces Record Amount of Energy in Final Experiment

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists confirmed that researchers at the National Ignition Facility really broke even with their laser-based fusion reactor back in 2022.

Fusion Facility Generates Twice the Power Put Into It

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford researchers tasked OpenAI's GPT-4 AI to make high-stakes, society-level decisions. It recommended the use of nuclear weapons.

In Tests, GPT-4 Strangely Itchy to Launch Nuclear War

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly enterprising Tesla owner has built his very own solar panel array that can be mounted on the roof of his Model Y.

Tesla Owner Builds Solar Array That Folds Out of Model Y Roof

By Victor Tangermann

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

By Victor Tangermann

The project in Iceland will be the first ever attempt of drilling straight into the incredibly hard to find magma beneath the Earth's surface.

Scientists Drilling Into Magma Chamber for Potentially Unlimited Energy

By Frank Landymore

A new startup called Anmtora Energy is investigating ways to store huge amounts of energy inside boxes holding extremely hot rocks.

Scientists Intrigued By Battery That Stores Energy in Hot Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

While pandering to an audience of far right-wing politicians in Italy, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that fossil fuels get a bad rep.

In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.

A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

An online directory that directed people to locations where they could drop off plastic bags and film to be recycled has been shut down.

Government Program to Recycle Plastic Bags Canceled After “Abysmal Failure”

By Sharon Adarlo

Japan has officially inaugurated the world's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor called JT-60SA just north of Tokyo.

Japan Finishes World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there was "no science" behind the necessity of phasing out fossil fuels.

Head of Climate Conference Who Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Actually Fossil Fuels Are Fine

By Victor Tangermann

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

By Frank Landymore

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists detected an extremely high-energy cosmic ray beaming from outer space — which confusingly came from nowhere in particular.

Scientists Puzzled by High Energy Signal Coming From Seemingly Empty Space

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States.

Renewable Energy

United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.

Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid

By Frank Landymore

A new UN report has found that despite climate promises, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever.

As Climate Doom Looms, We’re Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

Solar power is set to become the dominant energy source in the world by 2050, surpassing even fossil fuels if current trends continue.

Study Finds That Solar Power Is on Track to Dominate Electric Grids

By Sharon Adarlo

A documentarian once dubbed "the Donald Trump of TripAdvisor" collected bottles of Amazon driver urine and resold them...on Amazon.

Madman Sells “Energy Drink” Made From Amazon Delivery Drivers’ Pee… on Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

A growing number of container ships are using sails and even kites to propel themselves across the ocean, saving fuel and cutting emissions.

They’re Putting Sails on Giant Container Ships

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA spacecraft has caught a glimpse of a green comet being buffeted by a coronal mass ejection, a powerful solar storm.

Amazing Video Shows Solar Eruption Blasting Tail Off Comet

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a plasma flare, specifically called a coronal mass ejection, bursting from the Sun and survived.

NASA’s Solar Probe Survived Flying Right Through Massive Sun Explosion

By Sharon Adarlo

A Pennsylvania crypto company wants to burn tires to fuel Bitcoin mining — and community members are seeing red.

Community Horrified by Plan to Burn Tires to Produce Bitcoin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Planetary scientists suggest an Earth-like planet, no bigger than three times the Earth's mass, could lurk beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Scientists Say There May Be Another Earth-Sized Planet Lurking in the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.

Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

By Frank Landymore

large prehistoric whale small head

Scientists: Massive Ancient Whale With Silly, Tiny Head Was Real

By Sharon Adarlo

MIT researchers have figured out a way to create a supercapacitor simply by mixing cement, and a fine charcoal product called carbon black.

MIT Scientists May Have Found a Cheap Way of Storing Huge Amounts of Energy in Cement

By Victor Tangermann