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This story has been updated. As Connecticut continues to grapple with some of the nation’s highest electricity rates, interest has surged in a century-old alternative to investor-owned utilities: ...

Solar energy is abundant and frustratingly ill-timed. A sunbeam can become either electricity (useful for running modern life) or heat (useful for keeping spaces warm). But conventional solar hardware ...

This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works.

Morton gets geeky with rhythm and discusses the making of Lamb Of God's pummelling new album, Into Oblivion, and explains why ...

Airstrikes hit two bridges and a train station in Iran, and the U.S. struck military targets on the Iranian oil hub of Kharg Island. The attack marked the second time the island was hit by American ...

If you’ve given even passing attention to current events, you know that the Strait of Hormuz is a key passageway for crude ...

Iranian officials on Tuesday urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, as U.S. President Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” ...

While Iran cannot match the sophistication of U.S. and Israeli weaponry or their dominance in the air, its chokehold on the strait is causing major damage to the world economy and raising the ...

The crucial match-up between Luis Diaz and Trent Alexander-Arnold is not only a meeting of old friends, but also a chance for ...