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 ...

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 ...

A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less than 20 seconds into Oregon club hockey’s first annual Spring game, Inde Abresch set the tone. Instead of pulling the puck between a defender’s... Someone had to cool off Simeon Birnbaum.

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 ...

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 fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a ...