A group of French engineering students want to see what their solar blimp — the helium-filled, solar-panel-studded Sol'r — can do. They have their eye on the English Channel for their first big test run, though the team has taken...

Min-Kyu Choi, a graduate of London's Royal College of Art, is rethinking that part of the world's bulky Type G three-pronged plug (similar to what you see here in the United States, but at a different voltage but with a...

What better place than the Sunshine State for the world's first solar-powered city? Called Babcock Ranch, the 17,000-acres-large community will have its energy needs supplied by a $300 million, 75 megawatt solar-powered generator. The city will also integrate a Smart...

Could we be getting close to nuclear fusion power? We'll find out in a couple of months, when scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility fire up their 192 lasers for a nanosecond or two, blasting 1.8 megajoules of ultraviolet...