Vanessa Bates Ramirez

Eleven companies are working towards an ambitious goal as part of the US Department of Energy's plan to fast-track the development of advanced nuclear reactor technologies

Flocean, a Norwegian company, is set to open the world's first commercial-scale subsea desalination plant, an approach that could cut the cost and energy used to make seawater drinkable

A new Brooklyn, N.Y. high-rise sits atop 320 geothermal boreholes. It’s a feat of waterfront engineering—and one blueprint for decarbonizing the North American skyline

It's not an arms race if each country wants different things

Mangrove Lithium's refinement may ease a key EV bottleneck

Making tasks too easy could have hidden psychological costs

Here's how scientists drilled 8,000 feet through ice to place the world's deepest seismometers

A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts warn that the harsh environment could make maintenance challenging

Smart-panel start-up Span wants to turn spare household electricity into AI computing power. How far it can scale and what effect that would have on the residential grid remain unsettled

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