energy
Creating an afterlife—or a simulation of one—would take vast amounts of energy. Some scientists think the best way to capture that energy is by building megastructures around stars.
Inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy come to light.
A new study explains how a chaotic region just outside a black hole’s event horizon might provide a virtually endless supply of energy.
Can biomaterials help finally thrust perovskite solar cells to mainstream adoption?
Can we ever make energy efficient AI?
New mathematics have shown that lines of energy can be used to describe the universe.
Scientists at Washington University are patenting a new electrolyzer designed for frigid Martian water.
A mineral made in a Kamchatka volcano may hold the answer to cheaper batteries, find scientists.
Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.
Electricity from solar energy is the cheapest it’s ever been, thanks largely to technological improvements and policies that reduce the risk of investing in renewable energy. That’s one of the […]
While it’s always been a boon to Popeye’s “muskles,” it looks like spinach may also have a role to play in clean future batteries.
Utilizing nuclear waste converted to diamonds, this company’s batteries will reportedly last thousands of years in some cases.
In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.
American homes are big and polluting. Here’s how to fix that.
Researchers create a device to test a 50-year-old physics theory from the famed Roger Penrose.
By leveraging the difference between lit and shadowed areas, a new energy source perfect for wearables is invented.
Sweden tops the ranking for the third year in a row.
Have we already found dark matter? It may be hiding in existing data, says a study.
A European start-up uses satellite data to pinpoint individual sources of abnormal methane concentration.
Groundbreaking new research suggests gamma-ray bursts are caused by a star’s collapsing magnetic field.
Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics.
Using permanent magnets may help to make nuclear fusion reactors simpler and more affordable.
As it turns out, people who can afford to fly all the time use more energy than anybody else.
Ever smell a durian fruit? Don’t. Think of it as nature’s stinky battery.
A microbial organism pulls electricity from water in the air.
Physicist Frank Wilczek proposes new methods of searching for extraterrestrial life.
Princeton scientists find a new way to control nuclear fusion reactions.
The inventor Nikola Tesla’s esoteric beliefs included unusual theories about the Egyptian pyramids.
Researchers discovered a mysterious quantum effect that breaks a 60-year-old physics theorem.
A mysterious startup reveals a groundbreaking solar energy achievement.