We’re doing a great job of creating renewable energy—but we don’t have the infrastructure to actually use it By Amal Ahmed / Published January 19, 2018
Scientists use light to purge defects from solar cells By Jeremy Deaton / Published September 16, 2017
Almost every country in the world can power itself with renewable energy By Kendra Pierre-Louis / Published August 25, 2017
A border wall made of solar panels wouldn’t actually be good for the environment By Kendra Pierre-Louis / Published June 23, 2017
How to turn used plastic bottles into skylights and street lamps By Jeremy Deaton / Published April 18, 2017
The power of sunlight can pull clean drinking water from thin air By Jeremy Deaton / Published November 10, 2016
5 Questions You Should Have About Elon Musk’s New Solar Roofs By Mary Beth Griggs / Published November 2, 2016
A New Solar Cell Converts The Sun’s Heat Into Usable Energy By Mary Beth Griggs / Published May 25, 2016
Floating Solar Panels May Be Coming To A Reservoir Near You By Kate Baggaley / Published May 20, 2016
Rooftop Solar Panels Could Power Nearly 40 Percent Of The U.S. By Mary Beth Griggs / Published March 31, 2016
Viruses Can Be Genetically Modified To Transmit Energy By Alexandra Ossola / Published October 15, 2015
Google Launches ‘Project Sunroof’ To Show Where Solar Energy Works Best By Mary Beth Griggs / Published August 17, 2015
‘Solar Impulse 2’ Flight Around The World Halted Until Early 2016 By Empire / Published July 15, 2015
An All-Liquid Battery For Storing Solar And Wind Energy By Francie Diep / Published September 23, 2014
A Device That Converts Sunlight Into Hydrogen Fuel By Erik Koepf, as told to Flora Lichtman / Published September 16, 2013
Fox News Claims Germany Has More Solar Power Than U.S. Because It’s Sunnier There By Emily Elert / Published February 9, 2013
15 Science and Technology News Bytes From 2013 By Miriam Kramer, Taylor Kubota, and Colleen Park / Published December 27, 2012
To Make Steam Without Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles By Clay Dillow / Published November 21, 2012
The Pacific Island Chain of Tokelau Is The First Territory Powered Solely By Solar By Clay Dillow / Published November 7, 2012
Why Turning Mercury Into a Dyson Sphere to Harvest Solar Energy Is Not Worth It By Rebecca Boyle / Published April 4, 2012
Paint Your Roof With Working Solar Cells Made from Grass Clippings By Clay Dillow / Published February 2, 2012
Most People Are In Favor Of Wild Geoengineering Projects By Rebecca Boyle / Published October 25, 2011
Use Your Home Computer to Find a Better Semiconductor and Save the Planet By Julie Beck / Published September 14, 2011
New Jerseyites Hate New Solar Panels, Brand Them “Hideous” By Dan Nosowitz / Published April 28, 2011
A Five-and-a-Half-Ton Solar Array for a Better Cup of Joe By Andrew Rosenblum / Published April 27, 2011
Tapping Light’s Magnetic Properties, Innovative Tech Harvests Solar Energy Without Solar Cells By Clay Dillow / Published April 19, 2011
MIT Lab Creates the World’s First Feasible ‘Artificial Leaf’ By Clay Dillow / Published March 27, 2011
First Solar Power Projects Approved to be Built on U.S. Public Lands By Clay Dillow / Published October 6, 2010
Swedish Researchers Harness Green Goo to Create Solar Cells from Jellyfish By Clay Dillow / Published September 8, 2010
MIT’s Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells By Clay Dillow / Published September 5, 2010
Stanford’s New Solar Cells Are The First to Produce Electricity From Both Light and Heat By Rebecca Boyle / Published August 3, 2010
Government Fees Could Be Hindering the Rollout of American Solar Power By Clay Dillow / Published June 17, 2010
Power-Seeking Flying Microdrone Would Scavenge Solar and Thermal Energy Day and Night By Jeremy Hsu / Published April 9, 2010
New Robots Build Prototype Solar Cells in 30 Minutes, Then Evaluate Their Own Work By Jeremy Hsu / Published March 25, 2010
EADS Astrium Plans to Put A Solar-Collecting Demo Satellite in Space By Clay Dillow / Published January 20, 2010
The Push for Solar Energy in New York Gets a Boost at a Bar By Monica Heger / Published February 26, 2009