Plus: Trump's China AI chips U-turn hasn't gone down well with Democrats This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

A global race is underway to find long-term energy storage solutions, with venture capital investing heavily in new technologies beyond the current lithium-ion battery dominance. Researchers at the ...

Concrete is everywhere. It's the second most used material in the world after water, and can be found in buildings and infrastructure in every corner of the globe. Scientists at Aarhus University in ...

Thermal batteries can efficiently store energy as heat. But building them requires a carefully designed system with materials ...

In an effort to reduce the use of precious land to build renewable energy storage facilities, the Fraunhofer Institute has been cooking up a wild but plausible idea: dropping concrete storage spheres ...

The New York Power Authority is researching and demonstrating emerging technologies to support its clean energy transition.

"We cut everything we didn't need … to make the molecule as compact as possible." Scientists make breakthrough with 'liquid' battery that could replace traditional energy storage methods first ...

Heat batteries quietly solve a major transition gap, storing surplus renewable electricity as heat. Half of global energy demand is for heating, not power. They are simple, scalable, and far cheaper ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Over the next several weeks, we’ll be joined ...

A coal-fired plant looms over acres of solar panels at Xcel Energy’s Sherco Solar 1 site in Clear Lake, Minn., on May 29. NINA MOINI: Time now for our check-in with the MPR News regional team. Today ...