(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power ...

"Don't characterize the strength that I bring." That's a sentence uttered this week by likely Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi during a bizarre televised meeting with President Donald ...

Applying a novel coating to part of the machinery in power plants could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Applying it at just one coal plant would reduce yearly emissions as much as ...

Weaning the world off fossil fuels will take some time, so finding ways to make energy generation more efficient is still important. Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have ...

Most of the world's electricity-producing power plants -- whether powered by coal, natural gas, or nuclear fission -- make electricity by generating steam that turns a turbine. That steam then is ...

Dr. Shuaifeng Hu, a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford, holds a mounted piece of his team's photovoltaic coating. Credit: Martin Small/University of Oxford Researchers in England have created an ...