Breakthroughs

A Harvard University research team has made a leap in the search for a new class of batteries - a metal-free flow battery could unlock new ways to store electricity on power grids.

The fuel, promoted by billionaire Richard Branson, is trying to unseat ethanol’s dominance in the renewable fuels market.

As our environment shows new signs of growing ever more extreme, humans are attempting to adapt to such rapid changes through inventions that are themselves extreme, and often just...

Researchers have discovered a cheap way to store renewable energy, paving the way for mass clean energy adoption. A new company is seeking to commercialize this new technology by 2014....

Seeds from the inedible jatropha bush produce oil that can be refined into low-carbon jet or diesel fuel.

Researchers at Stanford and the U.S. DOE have made the first battery electrode that heals itself, opening the door for batteries that last longer.

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have determined how to choose the best phosphors for making LED lights, making them drastically more efficient.

A new solar cell material breakthrough that created a thin film solar cell at 1/5 the cost could be commercialized in just a few years.

Norwegian researchers have shortened the process of making biofuel from wood to just a few hours.