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CNN is reporting that several federal agencies are investigating at least two possible "directed energy attack" incidents on US soil.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese officials say it's time to decide what to do about the Fukushima power plant's radioactive water. That likely means dumping it in the ocean.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

A new model shows that we don't need dark energy to explain the expansion of the universe. It might be caused by some new property of dark matter instead.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations show that a compact fusion reactor with compressed plasma would actually produce more electricity than it takes in.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to the White House, the Biden administration is planning to invest in infrastructure to achieve "100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035."
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Low-tech Magazine's entire site is powered by solar panels on the author's balcony. It's part of a plan to make the internet less energy-intensive.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A rural school in Batesville, Arkansas generated enough solar energy to give every teacher up to $15,000 in raises, as CBS News reports.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at the University Of Colorado At Boulder have developed a wearable that can use its wearer's natural body heat as a power source.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

British engineers are preparing to test the fuel mix that could one day power the largest nuclear fusion experiment in the world, as Nature reports.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Another earthquake hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Saturday, further complicating the effort to manage and decommission it.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg says that future military tanks should fuel themselves with attached solar panels.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite found a bizarre six-star solar system where each of the stars are paired up in gravitationally-bound binary systems.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at Stanford have found a way to stabilize perovskite, a natural mineral, setting the groundwork for more efficient solar panels.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a trick that generates methanol fuel out of water and carbon dioxide without using any fossil fuels.
Fossil Fuels

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, we could theoretically extract energy from the enormous amounts of emissions emanating from black holes.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Saudi Arabia has announced it's newest zero-carbon city project called "The Line" that's being built in a straight 100 mile line.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

South Korea's fusion reactor just set a new world record, maintaining temperatures of over 100 million degrees for 20 long seconds.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Russian oil company Gazpromneft built a Bitcoin mining facility in its Siberian oil field to make use of energy from excess gases.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A close look at an asteroid fragment revealed crystals that likely formed on an ancient, long-gone dwarf planet-sized object.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

India just laid the foundations for what officials are claiming will be the world's largest renewable energy park producing 30 gigawatts of green energy.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have figured out a way to store energy from the Sun for several months at a time and release it on demand later.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Finland's Olkiluoto nuclear power plant had a close call Thursday, initiating an emergency shutdown after one of its reactors leaked.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

China has successfully powered up its "artificial sun" nuclear fusion reactor for the first time according to Agence France Presse.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a “Satellite-Controlled Machine Gun”
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Aptera Motors says its upcoming electric car may never need to be plugged in thanks to solar panels that give it 45 miles of extra range every day.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Billions of years from now, scientists predict that the Sun's hold on planets will wane and other stars will steal them out of the solar system.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built miniature living factories where photosynthetic algae produce viable hydrogen, all inside a droplet of water.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the entire solar system took a mere 200,000 years to form — considerably less time than how long humanity has been around.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese officials granted final approval to bring one of the nuclear reactors damaged by a 2011 tsunami and earthquake back online.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team in the United Kingdom has started work on what the BBC reports is the world's first facility to store energy as highly compressed air.
Wind

By Jon Christian

According to scientists, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus was yeeted out of the solar system when it was much younger.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK claim to have achieved first plasma on an upgraded, experimental fusion reactor.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Images taken from satellites reveal that a massive amount of electricity is being wasted just to illuminate cities overnight.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A molecular geneticist and quantum biologist argues that our entire conscious experience comes from a field of wayward electromagnetic waves in our brain.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

As the Voyager space probes travel farther outside our solar system, they're passing through increasingly dense regions of interstellar space.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Trump's Department of Energy has been blocking research on the benefits of renewable energy sources from seeing the light of day.
Renewable Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Using spinach as a catalyst, a team of scientists built an experimental fuel cell that outperformed conventional platinum cells.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government announced that it plans to dump radioactive water stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

"Doesn't seem to be any life in this solar system," billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a recent tweet, responding to fan mail from a 13-year-old.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Research shows that fracking releases airborne radioactivity that can be carried great distances to nearby towns on the wind.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the country will power all homes with wind energy by 2030, but it might cost more than he's allocating.
Wind

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at MIT claim their "SPARC" compact fusion reactor should work — or at least in theory, as they argue in a series of papers.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

With just hours left before he turned 13, Jackson Oswalt managed to fuse two deuterium atoms together in a fusion reactor he built — in his play room.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, investing in nuclear power doesn't tend to lead to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions like using renewables does.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

More companies are trying to make ocean wave energy a thing, including one firm that's been operating a massive generator since early 2019.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk argued that fusion energy will probably be more expensive than wind and solar. Experts are divided.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Research suggests that restructuring global society could grant every human on Earth a decent quality of life while cutting energy use to 1960s levels.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Research reveals that the west coast of India and Pakistan — where both countries operate nuclear power plants — are particularly vulnerable to tsunamis.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. just approved designs for the first small modular reactors, scaled down fission reactors that could help transition away from fossil fuels.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists build a recreation of the Nintendo Game Boy that works without any batteries to demonstrate new ways to build clean gadgets.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An energy startup called NDB says it's making progress on a battery technology powered by small pieces of nuclear waste. Oh, and they say it's safe.
Nuclear Fusion

By Jon Christian

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists want to improve our ability to forecast weather in space due to concerns that a solar storm could wipe out our entire electronic infrastructure.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the shape of our solar system's heliosphere could resemble a "deflated croissant," not a comet with a long tail.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

China is installing massive 20-megawatt generators to its warships to power high-energy weapons, including lasers and rail guns.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers have begun construction of the world's largest nuclear fusion project today in southern France, with operations planned to begin in late 2025.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski