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

By Dan Robitzski

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.
Solar Power

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

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.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

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.
Wind

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.
Nuclear Fusion

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 Fusion

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.
Solar Power

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

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.
Nuclear Fusion

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.
Nuclear Fusion

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Kristin Houser

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

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.
Solar Power

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.
Solar Power

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.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Solar Power

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.
Solar Power

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..
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Kristin Houser

Early observations of the interstellar object 2I/Borisov suggest that the comet's home solar system might not be that different from our own.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

According to a decade-long study by a team of scientists, human activity emissions total up to 100 times more than all volcanoes combined.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Japanese auto giant Toyota has partnered with a local energy company to test a Prius hybrid that's almost entirely covered in solar panels.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to the Gemini Observatory, we get a closer look at the object called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), a comet believed to be from beyond our solar system.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they may have detected a second interstellar object, but unlike 'Oumuamua, this one is on its way into our solar system.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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