By Michael Shellenberger Foreign Affairs Around the world, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy appears to finally be under way. Renewables were first promoted in the 1960s […]
By Daniel McGlynn Phys.org Early this year, Rachel Slaybaugh attended a campus mixer on technological innovation. When she introduced herself as a professor of nuclear engineering, other attendees would pause […]
By Richard Martin MIT Technology Review In February I flew through the interior of a machine that could represent the future of nuclear power. I was on a virtual-reality tour […]
By Anna Bitong Take Part Aboard an imaginary space station surrounded by distant planets, an astronaut on the fringes of human life toiled to turn the sun’s rays into electricity […]
By Jeff Tollefson Nature Putting a price on the damage caused by the release of a tonne of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is an enormously complex exercise. Yet […]
By Andreas Kuersten The Hill As President Obama tours Alaska this week, cries of hypocrisy fill the air. He is using these three days to highlight the effects of climate […]
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