Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

By combining photocatalytic materials with a flexible carbon cloth, the battery can use light to help drive reactions during ...

The sun's rays may be stronger than scientists previously thought, new research suggests. Using a highly sophisticated telescope, a team of researchers recorded the highest-energy light ever detected ...

Engineers have developed a new type of hybrid solar energy converter, which uses energy from the Sun to create both electricity and steam. The device reportedly has high efficiency and runs at low ...

Plants use photosynthesis to harvest energy from sunlight. Now researchers have applied this principle as the basis for developing new sustainable processes which in the future may produce syngas ...

The idea of solar panels that don't need sunlight might sound crazy, but it's not completely impossible. As a cornerstone of the revolution to bring more clean energy to people, solar panels have ...