Can solar panels survive a hailstorm? This experiment showcases ice falling from above to determine what breaks first: the ...

A multidisciplinary team from the California Institute of Technology is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for testing a satellite that proves it’s possible to collect solar energy in space and ...

Innovations in solar power are driving a new energy experiment in California. The experiment officially launched in 2025 under the title Project Nexus, and it involves a 115-foot-wide canal covered in ...

Sun-Ways has estimated that panels across Switzerland’s roughly 5,000 kilometers of railway could produce about one ...

Scientists studied the potential of growing corn near solar panels, finding a viable path despite shady conditions. Sheep, lettuce and peppers are already thriving alongside solar panels on working ...

Dignitaries formally inaugurate the beginning of FLARE operations. From left: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin; Hantao Ji, PPPL physicist and FLARE’s principal investigator; Brandon Thorne, director of ...

As the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill strips billions of dollars from solar projects across the nation, California's $20 million solar gamble called "Project Nexus" is paying off. This ...

The Oregon baseball team is one of the top- ranked teams in the Big Ten. Now, that’s not a bad place to be heading into the postseason, but... Researchers with the University of Oregon have recently ...

Community solar farms are useful to people who cannot or do not want solar panels on their roofs. Kentucky ranks near the bottom for all states for renewable energy production. Utilities begin to ...

One of the biggest benefits of solar power is its lack of emissions, but that doesn't mean that it can't have other ...

A total solar eclipse will darken a swath of North America as the Moon blocks the light of the Sun for a few minutes on April 8, 2024. In addition to casting a breathtaking, passing shadow over the ...