While on a Fulbright fellowship in Uganda, Colgate University professor Beth Parks noticed a serious flaw in the solar panels that communities across sub-Saharan Africa rely on for electricity. The ...

BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — A large, ground-mounted solar panel array that rotates all day in the front yard of a Putnam Street home is generating a buzz here, and it’s not just electricity. Neighbors ...

After four decades of searching, solar scientists have at long last found evidence of a type of seismic wave in our Sun. Thanks to ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric ...

In many arid regions, people use devices known as solar stills to extract drinkable water from seawater or tainted water. A new type of solar still is claimed to be much more effective than others, by ...

Architecture has been blended with nature, creating something so wildly unconventional, yet extremely revolutionary. It’s a design that only the daring (and evidently the wealthy) would consider, but ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...