A smart thermostat quickly learns to optimize building microclimates for both energy consumption and user…
Browsing: Energy
Energy is a fundamental concept in science, representing the capacity to do work or produce change. It exists in many forms—including kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, and nuclear—and powers everything from the tiniest atomic interactions to the largest cosmic events. In physics and engineering, energy is conserved and transformed, while in fields like biology and environmental science, it’s essential for sustaining life and driving ecological systems. This page features the latest research on how energy is generated, transferred, stored, and harnessed—spanning innovations in renewable energy, cutting-edge materials, and the physics that underlie it all.
A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres, which are a vital…
A research team led by Northwestern engineers and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have uncovered new…
New technology to overcome the life limit of next-generation water-cell batteries. A research team led…
A team led by Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Engineering and Environment Prof. Zhao Tianshou,…
A new nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier, in a key step…
KSTAR sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million °C. Aims to…
Researchers at Hiroshima University in Japan have blended together various polymer and molecular semiconductors as…
A stretchable system that can harvest energy from human breathing and motion for use in…
By some estimates, the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the earth in…
Did you know iron could burn? The combustion of iron powder seen here is taking…
The current world record tandem solar cell provided stable performance for 300 hours – even…
Scientists review some of the research behind a technology that could cauterize a growing global…
By copying the multilayer geometry of mammal bones, cathodes for sodium-ion batteries can be made…
Development of a microorganism that doubles the yield of biodiesel precursor production using genetic scissors…
Decarbonizing U.S. electricity production will require both construction of renewable energy sources and retirement of…
Leakage from frozen layers was a puzzle, but a new study shows how the potent…
If air taxis become a viable mode of transportation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have…