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An electrical engineer at the University of California in LA, has come up with a device that can harness electricity from a dark night sky to power an LED.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian company is building a geothermal energy project so benign, its CEO claims you could "literally put it in someone's backyard."
Geothermal

By Kristin Houser

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shared a chainmeme to his Instagram and Twitter feeds, apparently unaware that it was a hoax.
Energy

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that "thousands of solar reflector satellites" could be used to warm up the surface of Mars.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Retail giant Walmart is suing Tesla, claiming that the company's solar panels ignited seven of its stores' roofs, CNBC reports.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla Solar is now giving homeowners in six states the option of renting its solar panels for as little as $50 per month, with a $1,500 uninstall fee.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

A new experiment looking for dark energy came back with nothing, helping scientists narrow down future searches for the mysterious force.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Report: The World’s First Solar Road is an Absolute Disaster
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Nye: Green Energy Will Make You “Filthy $@!% Rich”
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In three years, the Fukushima nuclear power plant will run out of space to store contaminated water, pushing officials to quicjly assemble a new plan.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's massive floating nuclear power plant is destined to make its way across the Arctic Ocean to supply electricity to a remote eastern region.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 has officially raised its orbit by just shy of two miles using its solar sail.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

With new contracts awarded to weapons developers, the Army is pushing for new laser weapons capable of destroying drones and vehicles.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

MOZI 2, a solar-powered drone with a wingspan of 15 meters, just successfully completed its maiden flight, according to Chinese media reports.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

The massive radiation leak that plumed over Eastern Europe in 2017 was just definitively traced back to a Russian nuclear facility.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 satellite has successfully unfurled its massive boxing ring-sized solar sail on Tuesday.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. military says it downed an Iranian drone using a new directed-energy weapon — but Iran is denying to incident even took place.
Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new lightweight knee brace generates electricity as people walk around, potentially charging medical devices or wearables.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a Russian nuclear sub caught fire, killing 14. Now, a Russian Navy official says that the deceased crew averted a "planetary catastrophe."
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Carbon capture will be key to addressing climate change, and now, scientists have found a gene that could make plants better at capturing and storing CO2.
Renewable Energy

By Kristin Houser

The diagnostic tools on experimental fusion reactors are too fragile for industrial-scale facilities. A new technique may be able to replace them.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found radiation levels up to 800,000 times higher than expected in the sea water around a sunken nuclear sub.
Nuclear Fusion

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a two-in-one device that purifies salty or contaminated water while simultaneously producing solar power.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

California's Exploratorium has teamed up with NASA to broadcast a livestream of the total solar eclipse over parts of South America.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing takes the RoboBee to the next level by sporting solar cells and an extra pair of wings for more stable flight.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Dutch startup Lightyear has unveiled the Lightyear One prototype, a solar car it claims has a longer single-charge range than any other car on the market.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

The Tibet Air Shower Array has detected extremely high-energy photons from the Crab Nebula, which is some 6,500 light-years away from Earth.
Energy

By Kristin Houser

As global temperatures rise, the Arctic is melting away, releasing more greenhouse gases and revealing previously-frozen nuclear waste and diseases.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

During a closed-doors audience at the Vatican, the Pope told oil executives that we need to find an energy solution that doesn't sacrifice the environment.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

According to the Department of Energy, geothermal energy could become a major player in the future of American electricity generation.
Geothermal

By Dan Robitzski

Two scientists have invented a device that can create its own source of electricity from an extremely abundant and renewable source: falling snow.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers say that replacing water with atmosphere-polluting carbon dioxide could make fracking more eco-friendly.
Fossil Fuels

By Kristin Houser

The universe is speckled with voids that are totally empty, except for the dark energy that's pushing galaxies apart. That's where scientists should look.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Hungary is planning on building a fully carbon-neutral town from the ground up in the northwest of the country to boost fruit and vegetable production.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

By studying the plasma in the Sun's atmosphere, we could learn how to control it here on Earth and finally make fusion energy a reality.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discover a superconductor that works at temperatures nearly 50 Celsius degrees (84.6 Fahrenheit degrees) hotter than the previous record high.
Energy

By Kristin Houser

Next year, NASA will launch a small spacecraft that will carry yeast cells into orbit around the Sun. Scientists hope to study how radiation affects DNA.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

In order to prevent devastating hypersonic missile strikes, military contractor Raytheon is working towards a powerful laser capable of shooting them down.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A tiny 11 pound solar sail spacecraft is finally launching into space on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this summer.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A group of scientists want to declare the greater expanses of the solar system as official "space wilderness" to protect celestial bodies from space mining.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say they've devised a carbon capture system that captures atmospheric carbon in water — and uses the reaction to generate electricity.
Energy

By Jon Christian

Physicists are using mayonnaise to study the properties of molten metal being used to create fusion reactions in the laboratory setting.
Nuclear Fusion

By Jacob Banas

Scientists are hoping a new upgrade at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) could finally make fusion a reality by coating the reactor in lithium.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

British startup Arborea will test the ability of its "BioSolar Leaf" technology to pull pollution from the air through a newly announced pilot project.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

A 1.5-meter device called a Z-pinch generated nuclear fusion, but not for long enough to be useful. Still, it shows that small-scale fusion is possible.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists want to achieve fusion power generation by the year 2040, according to Reuters.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new technique for nuclear fusion can generate plasma without requiring as much space-consuming equipment within a reactor.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Right now there are 45 experimental projects in Europe working to generate hydrogen fuel using renewable sources of electricity.
Wind

By Dan Robitzski

A Nobel Prize winning scientist says that high-intensity lasers could one day render nuclear waste harmless in just a few minutes.
Nuclear Fusion

By Jon Christian

Rick Perry authorized six separate deals made by U.S. companies that sold nuclear energy tech to Saudi Arabia, then kept the dealings secret.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A startup says it's building a futuristic facility that'll suck as much CO2 out of the atmosphere of every year as 40 million trees.
Renewable Energy

By Jon Christian

China is following Russia's lead and constructing nuclear power plants on top of floating barges so it can bring cheap energy to distant islands.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found they achieved high pressure plasma — enough to achieve fusion power — at an old fusion reactor in San Diego called DIII-D.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

China just closed the bidding period for contractors looking to build the country's first nuclear-powered icebreaker, set to be the largest in the world.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Toyota is manufacturing a small amount of hydrogen fuel-powered cars in Japan. Right now they cost a prohibitive $50,000 but may cheapen with scale.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA: Meteor Exploded Over Russia With 10x Energy of Atomic Bomb
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin CEO Richard Branson proposes to charge every company in the world a "Clean Energy Dividned" that will be used to invest in clean energy.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

During the unveiling of Tesla's highly anticipated Model Y, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company would focus on its Solar Roof and Powerwall in 2019.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

China will need to build eight new nuclear reactors annually to reach the global average for nuclear energy generation by 2030, according to an official.
Nuclear Fusion

By Kristin Houser

Every picture of the solar system shows Venus as our closest neighbor. Sure, it comes closer to Earth than any planet, but on average Mercury is closer.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Is About to Test a Giant Solar Drone That Broadcasts 5G
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann