Scientists find why some people develop severe COVID-19 while others don’t
In a new study, researchers found why some people with COVID-19 develop severe disease. The findings also may provide the...
Cheap Wind Power Could Boost Green Hydrogen, Morgan Stanley Says
The falling cost of wind power is shaping up to be a boon for another clean energy source: green hydrogen. Hydrogen —...
A closer look at Washington’s superb new 100% clean electricity bill
The trend of states targeting 100 percent clean electricity has gone viral. Last month, New Mexico targeted 100 percent clean by 2045....
The unlikely, eccentric inventor turning inedible plant life into fuel
You never know who’s gonna be the one with the big idea. History has shown it’s not necessarily the person...
Steven Pinker Thinks the Future Is Looking Bright
Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has been known to take provocative positions. He has argued that women are...
Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer. They Were Wrong.
No one expected the four young women to live much longer. They had an extremely rare, aggressive and fatal form...
More died this year trying to take selfies than from shark attacks
A Japanese tourist reportedly died of a heart attack after falling down a staircase at the Taj Mahal’s Royal Gate...
How My Mom Got Hacked
My mother received the ransomnote on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. It popped up on her computer screen soon after she’d...
Solar thermal power plants switching technology to take advantage of falling PV prices – San Jose Mercury News
Three years ago, renewable energy developers laid plans to populate the American Southwest with massive solar thermal power plants, which concentrate the sun's rays to boil water and create steam to turn turbines that generate electricity. But as the projects went through lengthy permitting and environmental reviews, the price of photovoltaic solar panels plummeted because of a global oversupply driven by a glut of low-cost panels from China.
Project to use volcano to make power
Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.