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

Japan Battles Wild Monkeys at Site of Nuclear Meltdown

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.

US Approves First Small-Scale Nuclear Reactors

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.

Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons

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.

Researchers Test Battery Powered by Nuclear Waste

By Jon Christian

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

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

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.

Scientists Are Worried About Solar Storms Frying all our Electronics

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.

Scientists Are Using an “AI Bird Watcher” to Solve a Solar Farm Bird Massacre Mystery

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.

NASA Imaged the Bubble Around the Solar System and… Yikes

By Victor Tangermann

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

Chinese Navy Installs Generators to Power Rail Guns, Energy Weapons

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.

Scientists Start Construction of World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

The Survival Condo is a converted luxury condominium complex comprised of 15 floors, reaching 200 feet below the surface.

This Luxury Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker Has a Swimming Pool, Movie Theater and Sauna

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers is trying to build sustainable energy in developing communities with a new battery pack rental program.

Scientists Are Renting out Giant Batteries to Areas Without Power

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers are hoping that tiny graphite-coated balls of uranium could revolutionize and bring back nuclear energy production to the United States.

“Radioactive Gobstoppers” Could Stop the Next Nuclear Reactor Meltdown

By Victor Tangermann

Radiation sensors recently identified a harmless-but-significant leak, likely from a nuclear power plant, in east Europe.

Researchers: Findings Suggest Something Is Leaking Radiation in Europe

By Dan Robitzski

A new system makes carbon capture more feasible for power plants and can convert carbon emissions into raw materials for fuel.

New Tech Captures Power Plant Exhaust to Generate More Power

By Dan Robitzski

A power company in the U.K. is building the world's largest liquid air battery, which stores energy in the form of highly-compressed air.

This Giant Battery Is Powered by Compressed Air

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.

Astronomers Discover “Mirror Image” of Our Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers probing the night sky for signs of dark energy discovered almost 21,000 new, extremely-dim galaxies.

Dark Energy Researchers Discover Nearly 21,000 New Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.

Solar Panel-Like Device Generates Power From Darkness

By Dan Robitzski

During a test, a powerful laser weapon system on board the amphibious US Navy ship USS Portland "successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle."

Watch the US Military Kill an Aircraft With an Energy Weapon

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, daily emissions decreased by 17 percent, or 17 million tons of carbon dioxide, worldwide to 2006 levels.

Renewable Energy

Study: Pandemic Caused 17% Drop in Global Carbon Emissions

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

After studying a population of asteroids called the Centaurs for years, a team of scientists believes they originated outside the solar system.

19 Objects Near Jupiter May Be From Outside the Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

In Basalt, Colorado, a neighborhood built its own virtual power plant, letting them generate — and share — clean energy as needed.

A Colorado Neighborhood Runs on a Self-Reliant, Clean Energy Grid

By Dan Robitzski

Ukrainian authorities say a forest fire is causing radiation levels to spike in the area of Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant that melted down in 1986.

A Fire at Chernobyl Is Releasing Large Amounts of Radiation

By Jon Christian

A group of roughly 300 nuclear fusion researchers put together a massive report of goals and priorities for making fusion power a reality.

Scientists Call for Fusion Power Plant in the United States

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers at the UPenn have discovered 139 minor planets — too small for a planet, but not a comet either — orbiting the Sun past Neptune.

Scientists Discover 139 New “Minor Planets” in Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A new site claims to offer a guide to building an entire nuclear power plant, from the reactor vessels to the Homer Simpson-esque control panels.

Here’s How to Build Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

By Jon Christian

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.

Researcher: Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found a way to turn biowaste, specifically the inedible cores of jackfruit and durian, into high-density ultracapacitors for storing energy.

Scientists Are Storing Energy Using Uneaten Fruit

By Dan Robitzski

A draft proposal, if enacted, would force vendors selling phones, tablets, or earbuds in the European Union to use replaceable batteries.

The EU Might Make Personal Electronics Use Replaceable Batteries

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals a bizarre link: on days that solar storms mess with the magnetic field, more gray whales beach themselves.

Solar Storms May Cause Whales to Crash Into Beaches

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian fusion startup called HB11 claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear fusion technology. A bold statement.

Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide “Unlimited” Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have created tiny solar powered wings that can flap faster than butterfly wings and only need sunlight as a power source.

These Tiny, Solar-Powered Wings Flap Faster Than a Butterfly’s

By Victor Tangermann

Delta just threw down a carbon-neutral pledge at a first-class price: $1 billion over ten years. Is it a realistic ambition, or a pie-in-the-sky dream?

Renewable Energy

Uh, Delta Just Threw Down a $1 Billion Carbon-Neutral Pledge

By Foster Kamer

Swiss startup Energy Vault wants to overcome the limitations of lithium-ion batteries by storing wind and solar energy by stacking massive brick towers.

Here’s How to Store Wind and Solar Energy Using Just Gravity

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has nearly dug deep enough inside Earth to tap into a reservoir of supercritical fluid, which could serve as a limitless power supply.

This Team Wants to Capture Unlimited Energy From Inside the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist has designed a stellar engine that could move Earth's entire solar system from one part of the Milky Way to another.

This “Stellar Engine” Would Move an Entire Solar System

By Kristin Houser

Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.

Here’s Exactly How Screwed You’d Be in a Nuclear Apocalypse

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers built a kind of generator that gives off a powerful burst of energy whenever it's hit by falling rain.

Scientists Invent Device to Generate Electricity From Rain

By Dan Robitzski

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shared a dire warning that the planet is descending into conflcit and instability, but a better future is possible.

UN Secretary-General: “A Wind of Madness Is Sweeping the Globe”

By Dan Robitzski

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.

The US Navy Wants to Arm Nuclear Submarines With Laser Cannons

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers identified a major flaw in the U.S. government's plan to store nuclear waste: groundwater can eat away at storage containers and cause leaks.

Nuclear Waste Storage Containers Break Down When Exposed to Water

By Dan Robitzski

Research teams have discovered dust grains older than our solar system in two meteorites that landed on separate parts of the Earth in 1969.

Materials Older Than the Solar System Found in Two Meteorites

By Kristin Houser

The wildfires raging in Australia could release a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere by the end of the fire season, says Stanford scientist.

Renewable Energy

Australian Wildfires Could Release a Billion Tons of Carbon

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers wants to make use of nuclear waste by converting it into extremely long-lasting diamond batteries that could power medical devices.

New Technique Turns Nuclear Waste Into “Diamond Batteries”

By Dan Robitzski

Rolls-Royce is eyeing two building sites for its first mini nuclear power stations called "small modular reactors" (SMR) in Wales and northern England.

Rolls-Royce Is Building Tiny Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

The local government overseeing Fukushima has vowed to supply the region with 100% renewable energy by 2040, The Guardian reports.

Renewable Energy

Fukushima Plans to Power Region With 100% Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists detailed how 143 countries could transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 or possibly even sooner.

Scientists: Total Transition to Clean Energy Possible by 2050

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a single speech that he both “doesn’t understand wind” and has “studied it better than anybody.”

Donald Trump Doesn’t Seem to Know Anything About Wind Power

By Kristin Houser

Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, is now operational and generating power for the town of Pevek.

Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant Began Generating Electricity

By Dan Robitzski

An Army research center patented bizarre boots that generates electricity every time a soldier takes a step, giving them a new way to power their gear.

The Army Wants to Generate Electricity Inside Soldiers’ Boots

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created an AI that is able to come up with a recipe for "perovskite" that could one day be used to create spray-on solar cells.

Scientists Are Working on Spray-On Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has resurfaced his idea to turn 10,000 square miles in the U.S. desert into a solar farm that can power the entire nation.

Elon Musk Is Talking About Powering All of America with Solar

By Victor Tangermann

Musk's mind is already racing far ahead, imagining a bright, renewable energy-fuelled future featuring a cybertruck cladded in solar panels.

Elon Musk Wants to Add “Fold Out Solar Wings” to Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that a fiery layer of super-hot plasma marks the transition between our solar system and interstellar space.

Our Solar System Is Blanketed in a Giant Wall of Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Heliogen's new solar oven can focus sunlight and reach temperatures high enough to manufacture steel and cement without any fossil fuels.

Bill Gates-Funded Startup Unveils “Holy Grail” of Solar Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists used data collected by the European Space Agency's Cluster mission to map out Earth's "eerie song" it sings during a solar storm.

Here’s What Happens When a Solar Storm Slams Into the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Air Force is trying to find out if we could collect solar power in space and beam it down to Earth with the help of Northrop Grumman..

The Air Force Is Trying to Beam Solar Power Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The Keystone Pipeline just had a spill of over 380,000 gallons of crude oil into North Dakota wetlands, the latest in a line of catastrophic oil spills.

The US Said This Pipeline Would Have “No Impact.” Now It’s Leaking Crude Oil.

By Dan Robitzski

After denying reports of a system malware infection Tuesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted that its plants had been hacked.

Someone Hacked India’s Nuclear Power Plants

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.

Scientists Boot Up New Device to Map the Universe’s Dark Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The asteroid Hygiea is actually our solar system's smallest dwarf planet, astronomers determine using Very Large Telescope data.

Scientists Detect the Smallest Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

By Kristin Houser