A team at Nanjing Forestry University has turned balsa wood into a solar heat battery. By infusing lightweight balsa ...

While sustainable solar energy can potentially meet our global power needs, it has one major flaw. When sunlight disappears, ...

The town of Hamlet, North Carolina, seemed to hit the jackpot in September 2014. After the community had endured decades of economic despair and high poverty rates, the world’s largest producer of ...

Scientists in China have developed a wood-based solar thermal material that can store sunlight as heat and release energy ...