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A fluid-cooling panel designed at Stanford being tested on the roof of the Packard Electrical Engineering Building | Photo by Aaswath Raman

Sep 8, 2017

How a new cooling system works without using any electricity

Energy, Environment, Materials

Reinventing the power grid. | Photo by iStock/Ingrid_Hendriksen

Sep 6, 2017

Could ‘power from the people’ cut electric bills in half?

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society

The eyes of a robber fly, Holcocephala fusca | Photo by Thomas Shahan/Creative Commons

Sep 5, 2017

Insect eyes inspire the design of a new solar cell

Energy, Materials

Dynamic window technology has the potential to save about 20 percent in heating and cooling costs. | Illustration by: Stefani Billings

Aug 21, 2017

New energy-saving windows can go from clear to dark in under a minute

Energy, Materials, Technology & Society

SLAC scientist Christopher Hahn sees his reflection in a copper catalyst that converts carbon dioxide into ethanol. | Image credit: Mark Shwartz

Jun 20, 2017

How do you make ethanol without growing corn?

Energy, Environment

Scientists have figured out how to wirelessly transmit electricity to a nearby moving object. | Illustration/Stefani Billings

Jun 15, 2017

The wireless charging of electric vehicles overcomes a major hurdle

Energy, Environment, Transportation & Robotics

A bio-inspired approach | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Apr 20, 2017

John Dabiri: Technology inspired by nature

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society

What can we expect the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy to look like? | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Apr 20, 2017

Looking to the past for clues on the future of energy

Energy, Environment

Stanford researchers lead an effort to sustainably produce nitrogen-rich fertilizer. | iStock/yupiyan

Mar 22, 2017

Can we use solar energy to make fertilizer right on the farm?

“We have a lot of work to do still but these are big steps toward practicality." | Image credit: Stephen Crowley

Feb 17, 2017

How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power

Energy, Environment

Graduate student Fariah Hayee (left), Professor Jen Dionne and senior research scientist Ai Leen Koh. | Photo by L.A. Cicero

Jan 27, 2017

A team of researchers record reactions at near-atomic-scale resolution

Energy, Materials

Using new turbines and arranging them in different ways, researchers hope to generate wind power more efficiently. | Image by Dabiri Lab, Stanford

Jan 13, 2017

How can we extract the most energy from the wind?

| iStock / Victor Deschamps

Dec 13, 2016

Craig Criddle: The case for replacing cracked pipes with smart sewers

Energy, Environment

| iStock / Luis Cerdeira

Dec 13, 2016

Mark Jacobson: The future of energy impacts the future of our cities

Energy, Environment

Engineers develop an experimental technology that stores solar energy in a process that uses water as a battery. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Nov 1, 2016

Can splitting water become an efficient way to store solar energy?

Energy, Environment

At a hybrid power plant | REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Jun 22, 2016

How can we address some of the world's biggest energy challenges?

Arun Majumdar speaking at TEDx Stanford |Courtesy Stanford University

Jun 6, 2016

Arun Majumdar: What is the biggest challenge of the 21st-century?

A jet engine of an Airbus A350 XWB | REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Jun 2, 2016

How modeling air turbulence can improve wind farm performance

Yi Cui | Photo by Matt Beardsley/SLAC

Apr 28, 2016

Yi Cui: Nano materials can help improve everything from batteries to face masks

Energy, Materials

Stanford engineers studying the structures of phase-changing nanoparticles have found that shape matters. Materials composed of cubes and pyramids, for instance, may yield more efficien

Apr 26, 2016

How the shape and structure of nanoparticles affects energy storage

Visualizing the properties of nanoscale materials at ultrafast time scales | Photo courtesy of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Mar 31, 2016

What will the batteries and electronics of the future look like?

Renewables | Reuters/Mike Blake

Mar 31, 2016

Could a new catalyst use sunlight to efficiently extract hydrogen from water?

A new study calculating the economic impacts of climate change shows that the costs of carbon dioxide emissions have been underestimated. | Photo by Robert S. Donovan

Feb 26, 2016

The economic damage from climate change may be more than you think

Energy, Environment

The solar energy of the past? | Reuters/Stringer

Feb 26, 2016

Can large-scale solar power storage become a reality?

Energy, Environment