While Barron-Gafford said some laughed him off when he first proposed the idea of growing crops in the shade of solar panels, ...

Six were exposed to the full solar spectrum, serving as a control to the six plants grown under less light. The reduced sunlight reaching the other plants was filtered through purplish panels so that ...

As the market for floatovoltaics explodes, scientists are studying how to make the systems also work for waterbirds and other ...

The ocean serves as Earth's largest dynamic carbon sink, absorbing 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually through ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.

Solar System Components. There are four main components in an off-grid solar system: solar panels, batteries to store the energy, a charge controller, and an inverter to convert direct current ...