Superconductors reveal a new path where hidden material changes hint at breakthroughs in achieving efficient, lossless energy systems.

In most materials, motion eventually fades. Electric current weakens as electrons scatter inside a wire. Heat spreads through a solid until temperature differences vanish. Fluids moving through pipes ...

Eddy-mean energy exchange plays an essential role in ocean circulation and climate variability. This study decomposed the eddy-mean kinetic energy exchange into three parts, and linked them with ...

RICHLAND, Wash.—Sometimes, in order to go big, you first have to go small. That’s what researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have done with their latest ...

Flow-style batteries are already demonstrating the potential to dramatically cut the cost of energy storage used to capture the excess output of grid-scale wind and solar plants for later use. A rapid ...

An oil supertanker navigates crowded waters with tugboat assistance—an image of global energy in 2025: oversized, slow to turn and increasingly dependent on outside forces to stay afloat. NurPhoto via ...