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Agrivoltaics is the missing link in the whole system,” said Hudson Valley orchardist Elizabeth Ryan, describing a nascent practice that couples agriculture with solar-energy production. In Illinois, ...

German artificial lakes as investors scan east-west configurations, energy-storage co-location, policy clarity, biodiversity ...

Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could ...

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MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

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A natural sweetener found in the leaves of the Stevia plant may offer new hope for people struggling with hair loss.

High over the island of Sicily, Mount Etna smolders as Europe’s most active volcano. Underneath its rough slopes, a network ...