Plant owners with a so-called green thumb often seem to have a more finely tuned sense of what their plants need than the rest of us. A new "smart lighting" system for indoor vertical farms grants ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

A key problem facing artificial intelligence (AI) development is the vast amount of energy the technology requires, with some ...

Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and his team recently developed a new device that can accelerate and dramatically reduce the energy cost of AI computation, ...

Residents in several areas of New Jersey reported rumbling sounds and colorful flickering lights as the storm was ...

Scientists built a light powered AI prototype that matches chip accuracy while using less energy and producing less heat.

Cenovus Energy posts robust net income on C$800M FX gain, higher output and TMX narrowing heavy oil discounts despite softer ...

Something as simple as swapping out lightbulbs in your kitchen can also make more of a difference than you may realize. LED ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

To store heat for days, weeks, or months, you need to trap the energy in the bonds of a molecule that can later release heat on demand. The approach to this particular chemistry problem is called ...

Have you ever wondered if red light therapy and infrared saunas are basically the same thing? I get that question all t ...