A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter ...

The fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a clutch of successful ground and orbital power-beaming tests, and advances in ...

Innovations in solar power are driving a new energy experiment in California. The experiment officially launched in 2025 under the title Project Nexus, and it involves a 115-foot-wide canal covered in ...

This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Jana Rose Schleis from KBIA. In an ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with ...

President Trump’s Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, who holds two degrees in engineering from MIT, is being criticized for ...

What started as a premise in a UC Merced lab culminated with a commemoration of Project Nexus, California’s first solar canal project. On Wednesday, state leaders gathered at the Project Nexus sites ...

One of the biggest benefits of solar power is its lack of emissions, but that doesn't mean that it can't have other ...

Across Europe's lakes and reservoirs, a new generation of solar panels is rising—floating, intelligent and ready to reshape the energy landscape. But to scale up, key challenges still need to be ...

"It is a substantial installation." ...

In March, contractors finished installing a large array of solar panels on the southern part of the Purdy Landfill, near the ...