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A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the ...

Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further.

Chinese scientists have developed a breakthrough process that significantly improves the efficiency and environmental ...

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The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Denmark aim to be producing an annual 150 gigawatts by 2050. An important part of this plan is to construct and operate energy hubs at sea. TNO has been ...

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The field of thermodynamics—which studies energy, work, temperature, and heat—plays a crucial role in aerospace and aviation. Thermodynamics engineers apply these concepts to build and design ...

Dark energy may have a completely unknown aspect of physics acting as an accomplice in its efforts to defy gravity, suppressing the growth of large-scale structures like galaxy superclusters.