Events for “energy”

Australia’s red soil may be hiding a massive clean energy source

Researchers have discovered that Western Australia’s iron-rich rocks can naturally generate hydrogen and that the process may be boosted to produce much larger amounts.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched.

ExxonMobil Stock: Is XOM Underperforming the Energy Sector?

Is BHP Group (BHP) the Missing Piece in NexGen Energy (NXE)’s $1 Billion Financing Plan?

Nancy Pelosi Just Disclosed a Multimillion-Dollar Bet on Bloom Energy. That’s Just 1 of Many Reasons to Buy BE Stock Here.

Little Big Town Brings Fresh Energy to New Album, ‘It’s a Dying Art’: ‘There Is a New Excitement’

The country quartet's 12th album is out now.

Dry seeds preserve fully formed mitochondria, unlocking rapid energy at germination

The majority of plant seeds have the special ability to almost completely dry out and yet remain viable. While most living cells die with a 90% loss of water, cells in seeds enter a biological state of dormancy. With a moisture content of less than 10%—similar to a raisin compare

Harnessing nuclear power for a clean-energy future

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02505-5 Generating electricity using fission has a chequered past. New approaches such as smaller reactors could transform the technology into a more nimble source of always-on, carbon-free power.

Billion-dollar machine aims to set a fusion-energy record — and study nuclear weapons

Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02620-3 Pacific Fusion is breaking ground next door to a US nuclear-weapons laboratory, hoping the partnership will give it an edge.

Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.

Donald Trump is presiding over an unexpected clean energy boom, as rising electricity demand spurs investment in new capacity despite the US administration’s efforts to thwart a solar and wind rollout. Clean energy additions will rise by a record 45 gigawatts this year, according

Woodside scraps long-term emissions and clean energy targets despite windfall oil profits caused by Iran war

Australia’s biggest oil and gas company recorded a 27% increase in sales profit to $1.67bn in the six-month reporting period Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Woodside Energy has scrapped its long-t

Energy efficiency business accused of fraud by Victorian authorities

LST-1 and MAGIC telescopes shatter distance record for the very high-energy blazar OP 313

On Aug. 15, the CTAO LST Collaboration and the MAGIC Collaboration released findings from observations of OP 313, the most distant very-high-energy blazar ever recorded. The paper, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, presents in-depth observations conducted with the prototype

Iran discovers major new gas reserves amid war-hit energy sector

Iran on Sunday said it had discovered more than 200 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the southern Fars province, with more than 160 billion cubic metres potentially recoverable. The find comes as the country’s energy sector faces disruption after months of US-Israeli strike

HomeKit Weekly: Homey secures Matter 1.5 certification to expand bridging and energy support

Athom has announced that it has officially achieved Homey Pro mini, and the Homey Self Hosted Server. This update brings important upgrades for both native device integration and cross-platform device bridging.

Aditya Birla Renewables secures $1.6bn MUFG loan for Sprng Energy deal

Have we got dark energy wrong? NASA's new telescope may help us find out

Lift-off! NASA launches Roman Space Telescope to tackle dark-energy mysteries

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02727-7 The space observatory will have an expansive view of the Universe as well as sharp resolution.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches to Find Exoplanets and Unravel Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

The new observatory will complete three surveys of the universe in five years, although it's designed to function at least twice as long. Its data could change scientists' basic understanding of the cosmos

Russia preparing 'massive strikes' on Ukraine's energy sites after deadliest attack of the year

Russia's Defense Ministry has announced preparations for "massive strikes" on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and rec

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Iran War Adds $330 Billion to Global Energy Import Bill

How the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is reshaping global energy use

By dramatically raising fossil-fuel prices, the conflict has also been pushing governments, companies and consumers towards renewable energy.

Amid global turmoil and a weak yen, energy poverty emerges as a concern in Japan

Experts say the first step toward dealing with energy poverty is to simply acknowledge the issue.

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

Article URL: https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478426 Points: 88 # Comments: 8

Energy Transfer Is Quietly Becoming One of the Biggest Natural Gas Suppliers to AI Data Centers

Mapping Iran war’s strikes on Gulf energy and its impact on future of oil

US energy companies have reaped billions from rising oil price, but their assets in the region remain at risk.

360 Energy Pulse: What mattered this week in energy

Nobody's Talking About This Energy Company, but It's Quietly Signing the Power Deals Feeding the AI Build-Out

This 40-Minute Strength Workout Saves Me So Much Time and Energy—Without Sacrificing Gains

These smart supersets help runners build power, prevent injury, and get out of the gym faster.

Woodside Pulls Back From Clean Energy: Is the New Strategy Bullish?

Who’s to blame for sky-high energy bills in New York? Not Trump.

Elected officials everywhere are under pressure to bring prices down; dumping costly climate laws that outlaw the use of abundant and relatively cheap fossil fuels is an attractive fix.

U.S. says pipelines will make Strait of Hormuz irrelevant. Energy experts disagree

Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent said oil pipelines will make Strait of Hormuz irrelevant in two years. Energy experts say that is unlikely to happen.

Inside India newsletter: U.S., Russia vie for a bigger slice of the world’s third-largest energy market

U.S. and Russia are competing to assert dominance in the world's third largest energy market.

Trump executive order bans some foreign equipment in US energy grid

Order declares a national emergency over an 'unusual and extraordinary foreign threat' to the grid.

Goldman Sachs warns the U.S. needs 500,000 more energy workers by 2030 as 41% of the workforce nears retirement

Andhra Pradesh Energy Dept. gearing up to set up two new thermal power plants of 800-MW each

The ₹25,000-crore project, for which bids will be called soon, is aimed at meeting the twin objectives of catering to the State’s burgeoning demand for electricity and substituting them for the obsolete coal-based generation units

Australia’s backdown on data centres allows them to use energy from coal and gas. Here’s what that means

The federal government has softened its initial renewables-only stance.

Siemens Energy Plans to Carve Out Transformation of Industry Unit

Marathon Petroleum (MPC) and Valero Energy (VLO) Have Exploded in 2026. But Barron’s Sees More Upside

Talen Energy (TLN) is Down 23% This Year. But Mizuho Expects a Rebound

Centrus Energy (LEU) May Have Found its Next Major Growth Opportunity

Expand Energy (EXE) is Building a Natural Gas Powerhouse. But is the Growth Story at Risk?

Nuclear Stocks Rebound on an Oversold Bounce: Uranium Energy Jumps 6%, NuScale Power and Oklo Climb 5%

Japan energy plan seeks to back pipelines bypassing Hormuz

The plan is part of a new energy strategy that's aimed at strengthening supply security, according to documents from Japan's Cabinet Office.

Albanese's rare concession in the energy wars is revealing

Why high energy bills look like they are here to stay

The government is under pressure to support billpayers when domestic energy prices predicted to rise further.

Medak among key clusters under Centre’s energy efficiency initiative

The 46 companies scrambling to commercialize fusion for energy

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02513-5 Whether the billions of dollars of investment will lead to an inexhaustible source of clean electrical power is not yet known.

Household energy bills to hit three-year high as Ofgem announces 4% rise from October

A household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will pay £60 a year more, regulator Ofgem says.

The clean energy transition needs land. Can it help restore it too?

What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it?

Norway plans further development of Arctic drilling amid EU energy concerns

EU reviewing support of a ban on new drilling in the Arctic as war impacts energy security.

Clean Energy Spending Tracking Toward Record $180 Billion in 2026

The best-managed industrial waste in history

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02508-2 Expanded use of nuclear energy will protect the environment even without fresh options for waste disposal.

A raft of start-up firms is betting on nuclear fusion

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02511-7 The phenomenon that makes stars shine and hydrogen bombs explode has yet to be reliably tamed for energy generation. But that isn’t stopping companies from trying.

Experimental compound helps burn fat without muscle loss

A decades-old compound may point to a new way of treating obesity by making the body burn more energy rather than simply reducing appetite. In mice, TOFA increased energy use by as much as 18%, reduced body fat without significant muscle loss, and improved blood sugar, triglyceri

How do ice cubes cool a drink?

Energy transfer is the secret ingredient that makes iced tea a particularly refreshing drink on a hot day.

Empty North Sea oil fields could store enough green hydrogen to power the country for seven years

Green hydrogen production is, in effect, a way of bottling renewable energy.

This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole

Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy.

22 best-performing stocks of August, as the software industry continues its recovery

The energy and technology sectors did well in August, while Moderna’s stock was the best performer by a wide margin.

Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life

Some of nature's most important chemical reactions rely on the coupled movement of negatively and positively charged particles. These processes play central roles in photosynthesis, catalysis and biological energy conversion yet remain difficult to observe.

Plug-in solar panels could save households up to $370 a year – if Australia made them legal as in the UK

A plug-in solar kit that costs about $1,000 ‘pays for itself in three years’, one expert says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Millions of Australians could be saving up to $370 a year on energy bills and doing their bit for the climate crisis if Labor

4 things data center providers must do

For decades, the data center industry operated by a simple playbook: Find fiber, find a cluster, call the utility last. Energy was an afterthought. The prolonged contraction of U.S. industry left surplus power that our sector absorbed on favorable terms, without owing much in ret

US inflation holds at 3.7 percent in July, above Fed target

Inflation has worsened since the US and Israel attacked Iran, sending energy prices spiralling.

Vaporization trick enables ‘tandem’ solar cells to be made at lower temperatures

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02469-6 A clever approach for evaporating a compound used to make perovskite semiconductors tackles a vexing challenge in scaling up next-generation solar cells.

Pluto losing its planet status may be the best thing that ever happened to solar system diversity

Unpopular opinion time, but someone has to say it: I think Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar system and for the former planet itself. Let me try to convince you, too. First, a little background. The Pluto planet contro

Union Budget: Customs duty cuts to facilitate domestic battery, solar cells manufacturing

Customs exemptions for lithium-ion batteries, solar glass; renewable energy outlay rises

Centre issues largest tender on battery storage for solar power

It marks first tranche of government’s target to inject more renewable energy in the national grid

Hot vs cold: What's the ideal temperature for solar panel efficiency?

Will solar panels work well in your location? Solar panel efficiency depends on several factors, including temperature.

How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions

A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth has been tracked by a record 17 spacecraft spread throughout the solar system, revealing the CME to be surprisingly lopsided. CMEs are "burps" from the sun – huge clouds of

On this day in space! Aug. 24, 2006: Pluto loses its planet status

On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore . Since that date, Pluto has been officially classified as a dwarf planet along with four other confirmed dwarf planets in the outskirts of the solar system. This decision spar

Once the Solar System's Ninth Planet, Pluto Was Reclassified 20 Years Ago. Here's Why Planetary Scientists and the Public Alike Love the Small Icy Body

Pluto is now the most well known of the outer worlds beyond Neptune—and the darling of the solar system

How fusion reactions can survive flaws—up to a point

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have found that implosions designed for inertial fusion energy (IFE) can tolerate significant imperfections before performance abruptly declines, a finding that could inform the design of fuel targets for future fusion

How the sun's galactic journey and superflare-filled youth shaped Earth's climate

At the center of our solar system, the sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the sun's history may have helped create Earth's unique climate and driven previously unexplained climatic shifts.

Natural gas drilling could raise salt levels, in turn boosting radium in water

Pennsylvania ranks second in U.S. natural gas production, accounting for about one-fifth of U.S. output in 2024, and has one of the most extensive histories of energy extraction in the country. A team of researchers from Penn State is trying to better understand the environmental

Starstruck: NASA Research Shows How Sun’s Ancient History Shaped Earth

At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the Sun’s history may have helped create Earth’s unique climate and driven previously unexplained climatic shifts. In n

Expion shares surge on $9M private placement to fund Louisiana oil and gas push

Nuclear power is China’s key for transitioning to a fully renewable grid design

Between late 2016 and August 2026, China connected 27 new nuclear reactors to its grid. In the same period, the United States connected two. As Jacopo Buongiorno—professor of nuclear science and engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems at the Mas

New free-space optical link adds a wireless component to the nation's longest quantum network

There's a new lighthouse on Long Island. But instead of shining light to guide ships through waterways, this one transmits and receives particles of light that carry quantum information. Perched atop a seven-story building at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven Natio

Scientists identify design rules for the best thermoelectric materials

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used a theoretical framework to derive design rules for creating new thermoelectric materials. The efficiency of converting thermal energy to electricity is often determined by parameters that strongly depend on each other, maki