Engineers at UC Davis have invented a device that can generate mechanical power at night by linking the natural warmth around us to the cold depths of space.

A cooling night sky becomes a power source for electricity in a new study that shows how radiative heat loss can drive a ...

Exowatt sees this technology as simple and almost infinitely scalable. Simply adding more containers to the generator creates more electricity. In parts of the world that are consistently sunny, the ...

Americium is one of the lesser-known synthetic elements, first created in 1944 during the Manhattan Project. The isotope of interest for space is americium-241. Its half-life is a staggering 432 years ...

The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale ...

For Andrew Frankel, there's no question that the honour of the most beautiful grid of the 83rd Members' Meeting presented by ...