Energy

Albert Einstein's famous equation E = m^2 connects energy to mass via the speed of light. Find out why E = m^2.

It sounds like science fiction.

Twenty-two thousand tons (20,000 metric tons) of oil products leaked from a Russian industrial power plant into an Arctic river on May 29. It could take decades for the region to recover.

A powerful superflare could disrupt electronics across the globe, causing widespread blackouts.

Researchers may have solved a long-standing mystery of some exoplanets' oddball orbits.

For the first time, an animated model visualized a realistic solar flare.

All the light that has ever been created is still lurking among the stars.

DNA and other stringy molecules could store data much more efficiently than hard drives in modern computers.

If bitcoin energy trends continue, mining bitcoin could soon stop being profitable, an economist found.

Chinese physicists are about to start building a 100-petawatt laser, powerful enough to rip matter out of a vacuum.

A team of physicists argues that its strange, spherical fusion reactor could be the way forward for nuclear energy.

Scientists have published a detailed road map to move 139 countries to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, according to a recent study.

Are we flushing away a greener future? Perhaps, according to scientists who found a way to turn used toilet paper into electricity.

Solar power took a dip in the United States when the total eclipse swept across the country Monday (Aug. 21), as a new video shows.

Washing down your bacon cheeseburger with a big, cold soda may trigger the body to store more fat than it would if you drank something without sugar, a new small study finds.

From inefficient grids, shortfalls in policy, and even an eclipse, solar-energy collection faces no shortage of hurdles. Scientists have discovered another stumbling block: air pollution. 

Vast troves of an energy source called methane locked deep beneath the ocean floor could be harvested. But doing so would worsen climate change, several experts say.