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Lightning can create special energy wavesRoom the Agency/Alamy This overlooked mechanism could allow lightning energy to reach the top of the atmosphere, threatening the safety of…
IIt was a project that promised the Sun: researchers would use some of the most cutting-edge technology in the world to design machines capable of generating…
I The backyard of the federal police headquarters in Roraima, Brazil’s northernmost state, is littered with huge bags of cassiterite, a pitch-black, gravel-like mineral. Though less…
Oxford PV solar module with layers of perovskite and silicon Oxford PV The most efficient solar cells to date can convert nearly half of the sunlight…
CoulombFly, a prototype of a small solar-powered droneWei Shen, Jingze Peng, and Mingjin Qi Weighing just 4 grams, the drone is the smallest solar-powered aircraft ever…
Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock It's now well established that to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we need to get to net zero carbon emissions as quickly…
name: Auramax. Year: The word “aura” comes from Latin and Ancient Greek and originally meant a gentle breeze. Today it’s more commonly used to describe the…
Pwadol Jatrawuttichai/Alamy About 450 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland, there is an abandoned mine. Despite its remote location, it is attracting attention because of the role…
Vehicles equipped with technology to collect data on building conditions Madeleine Cuff British city dwellers may have spotted a strange-looking vehicle driving around their neighborhood earlier…
Solar panels have become a common sight in suburban neighborhoods in California. However, the state’s ambitious clean energy vision has led to a unique challenge -…
The rise of artificial intelligence has propelled the stock prices of major tech companies to new heights, but this growth has come at the expense of…
Google’s climate footprint reduction targets are at risk due to the rising reliance on energy-intensive data centers to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech…
A team of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley has developed the most sophisticated instrument ever designed to search for dark energy, the mysterious force…
The choice to name a new project the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) may come across as presumptuous. Dark energy, you see, is completely unseen; it…
Quantum states are surprisingly energetic David Wall/Getty New calculations suggest that in quantum mechanics, the whole can be much greater than the sum of its parts.…
Naming a new project the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) may come across as overly confident. This is because dark energy is undetectable and cannot be…
Largest 3D map slice of the universe ever Lea Raman/DESI collaboration There are hints that the universe may be behaving in unexpected ways, and astrophysicists are…
China’s rapid growth in solar power is changing the world’s electricity mix Cost Photo/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Thanks to the rapid growth of wind and solar power, renewable energy…
Vancouver, Canada, April 18, 2024, Chainwire Chey Eye, a leader in distributed artificial intelligence infrastructure, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Big Energy Investments Inc.,…
WASHINGTON — THE PRESIDENT Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar power projects serving more than 900,000 households…
The curved tip of a wind turbine blade, or winglet, based on the shape of a condor wingKashayar Ranamai Vahanbali A design change inspired by the…
Vancouver, Canada, April 18, 2024, Chainwire Chey Eye, a leader in distributed artificial intelligence infrastructure, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Big Energy Investments Inc.,…
Slice of the universe's largest 3D map showing the fundamental structure of matter A collaboration between Leah Raman and DESI. Custom colormap package with cmastro The…
This drone rotates most of the time, but can fly over obstacles if needed Ruibin Zhang et al/Zhejiang University, Hangzhou According to the developer, the autonomous…
Crowds gather at the San FermÃn festival in Pamplona during the famous running of the bullsMiguel/Shutterstock People in very dense crowds move in small circular “trajectories”…
Astronomers harness powerful energy dark energy camera The Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope (DECam) at Cerro Tororo Inter-American Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLab, Huge 1.3…
Environmental groups have warned that claims stating artificial intelligence will aid in addressing the climate crisis are inaccurate. Instead, they caution that the technology is likely…
â—‹One of the most harmful myths about digital technology is that it is somehow weightless or immaterial. Remember the early talk about “paperless” offices and “frictionless”…
The U.S. government has halted an investigation into a cryptocurrency mining operation over its rising energy use following a lawsuit from an industry accused by environmental…
The myth that we only use 10 percent of our brains has been completely debunked. Perhaps this idea persists because it is so tempting to believe…
Fish often travel in schools. Their mesmerizing actions look choreographed and rehearsed as these schools bend and break at the perfect time. However, in reality, there…
Inside the JET fusion reactoreurofusion A 40-year-old nuclear fusion reactor in the UK has set a world record for energy output in its final run before…
A 40-year-old nuclear fusion reactor in the UK has set a world record for energy output in its final run before permanent shutdown, scientists have announced.…
Nuclear fusion experiments at the US National Ignition Facility reach a significant milestonephilip saltonstall Scientists confirmed that a 2022 fusion reaction reached a historic milestone by…
China played a big role in the growth of solar and wind power in 2023Yuan Yuan Xie / Alamy Stock Photo According to one study, 2023…
acceleration: A change in the speed or direction of an object.average: Term (in science) for arithmetic mean. The sum of a number group divided by the…
Iceland is one of the most boring countries in the world. That’s a compliment, not an insult. The island nation is dotted with thousands of boreholes…
Groundbreaking research has identified a molecular photoswitch that can improve solar energy storage. Researchers used quantum computing to analyze large databases to find the best molecules…
