New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again. It can then end up in one of two ...

Osmotic energy, often called blue energy, is a promising way to generate sustainable electricity from the natural mixing of salt and fresh water. It exploits the voltage that arises when ions from ...

Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

Defect-filled lead-halide perovskites rival silicon solar cells because domain walls inside the material separate and guide charges. Researchers visualized these charge-transport networks using a ...

Since late 2024, humanoid robots and lithium-ion batteries (especially solid-state batteries) have repeatedly appeared together in industry headlines.

A breakthrough solar storage technology developed by researchers at UC Santa Barbara could change the future of renewable ...

Investigating alkali-treated wood, this research uncovers how chemical modifications and anisotropic structure influence transparency and light transmission.

Researchers have managed to bottle the Sun, advancing renewable energy goals by enabling the storage of solar power in a novel format.

Since it launched nine years ago, next-generation battery developer Form Energy has faced a single skeptical question: Do businesses really need a battery that lasts 100 hours or longer? Google ...

Oxford researchers have found a way to visualize one of the most hidden — yet critical — components inside lithium-ion batteries. By tagging polymer binders with traceable markers, they revealed how ...

Scientists can now see a hidden battery ingredient — and it could supercharge how fast and how long lithium-ion batteries ...