Energy

The US’s first certification of a small modular reactor design could lead to cheaper, safer nuclear power plants.

With ever-improving efficiencies, and rising sales in multiple countries, heat pumps are only getting harder for their detractors to dismiss.

Replacing the liquid electrolyte in rechargeable lithium batteries with a thinner, lighter ceramic material could revolutionize technology.

Quantum simulations have identified a cheap way of extracting hydrogen fuel from liquid ammonia using LED light.

MIT researchers have developed a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin solar cells that can be stuck onto any surface.

Researchers in California achieved net energy gain in a thermonuclear fusion experiment. But how great of a breakthrough is this, really?

A new type of room temperature sodium-sulfur (RT Na-S) battery could help solve the renewable energy storage problem.

Stanford researchers have developed a battery electrolyte that can allow lithium-ion batteries to operate safely at much higher temperatures.

Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has demonstrated its first battery-electric large mining truck.

A lab-made version of tetrataenite, a mineral found in meteorites, could replace rare earth elements in the production of permanent magnets.

Notre Dame researchers have used quantum computing to design a transparent window coating that reflects heat into the atmosphere.

Rechargeable cement batteries could allow for whole sections of multi-storey buildings to be made of functional concrete.

The simple compound costs just a fraction of similar carbon-capturing materials.

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