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German artificial lakes as investors scan east-west configurations, energy-storage co-location, policy clarity, biodiversity safeguards, grid-stability benefits, procurement costs, water-quality data ...

Agrivoltaics is the missing link in the whole system,” said Hudson Valley orchardist Elizabeth Ryan, describing a nascent practice that couples agriculture with solar-energy production. In Illinois, ...

Liquid metal controlled by low voltage reversibly switches color and infrared response in nanoscale surfaces, enabling low power reflective displays, sensors, and optical security features.

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

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Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could ...