This activity is part of the Science Friday Sun Camp collection! The Sun is undoubtedly the powerhouse of the solar system. It’s been generating energy for 4.5 billion years, and it will continue to ...

The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained presents an unbiased investigation into the energy sources that power our world. Vividly illustrated with animations, 3-D graphics, demonstrations, ...

Deep in the sun’s core, two protons of hydrogen atoms collide violently. Under immense pressure they fuse together and release vast amounts of energy in a process known as nuclear fusion. Travelling ...

For months, during the main pandemic stretch, I’d get inexplicably tired in the afternoon, as though vital organs and muscles had turned to Styrofoam. Just sitting in front of a computer screen, in ...

Last December physicists working on fusion claimed a breakthrough. A team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California announced it had extracted more energy from a controlled nuclear fusion ...

How much energy is required to power human civilization? What is it that makes our cities, factories, homes, and cars so energy inefficient? How can the average individual affect energy directions?

No university is more deeply connected to energy than The University of Texas at Austin. With unmatched research spanning energy exploration, sustainability, production, storage, transmission and ...

In response to Ed Dornlas’s Feb. 18 letter regarding sources of energy: Solar and wind (the product of solar heating differentials) are “kinetic” or active energy. They are also immediately adaptable ...