Energy

A collage of agricultural elements including a satellite, crop fields, tomatoes, and growth charts illustrating data, boosted breeding techniques, chemical formulas, and a seedling highlights efforts to combat hunger.
Agriculture
Boosted Breeding and beyond: 3 tech trends that could end world hunger
A world without hunger is possible, and the development and deployment of new farming technologies could be one key to manifesting it.
Kristin Houser
Aerial view of solar panels arranged in rows on green grass, partially obscured by a yellowish haze.
Clean Energy
US hits 180 GW of solar power. Here’s how we get to 1,000 by 2035.
A quick look at the history of solar power in the US and the trends that could lead us into our sun-powered future.
Kristin Houser
Clean Energy
Which technologies will enable a cleaner steel industry?
Technologies like hydrogen-based direct reduction of ore, electrolysis, and advanced furnace technologies could reduce steel emissions.
Daniel Boero Vargas and Mandy Chan | World Economic Forum
an image of the interior of the JET nuclear fusion reactor
Clean Energy
Fusion reactor break world record in final experiment
Kristin Houser
a collage featuring a satellite for space-based solar power and the sun
Clean Energy
NASA lays out the path to space-based solar power
Kristin Houser
A group of test tubes containing battery materials in a dark background.
Batteries
Microsoft AI discovers 18 new battery materials in two weeks
Kristin Houser
Two women in lab coats working with a beaker.
Agriculture
Zapping plants in “eSoil” makes them grow 50% larger
Kristin Houser
Women picking tea leaves in a tea plantation.
Climate Crisis
This startup wants to track soil carbon with AI and satellites
Elise Leise
a collage of nuclear reactors and computer code
Clean Energy
Microsoft is training an AI to help get nuclear reactors approved
Kristin Houser
A photo of Buzz Aldrin on the moon with 5 moving images relating to climate change collaged on top.
Climate Crisis
This global prize competition is launching small moonshots to save the planet
Elise Leise
A collage featuring Toshiba's prototype cobalt-free battery and a close-up of cobalt.
Batteries
Toshiba unveils new fast-charging, cobalt-free battery
Kristin Houser
An artist's rendering of a Natrium nuclear power plant
Clean Energy
How TerraPower is leading the nuclear renaissance
Kristin Houser
A stack of wood blocks made by Graphyte.
Climate Crisis
How these wooden blocks could stop climate change
Kristin Houser