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Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. Over the past decade, solar power has become the cheapest way to produce electricity. But its biggest challenge is that sometimes ...

After decades of being purely aspirational, commercial nuclear fusion is becoming a matter of "when, not if," driven by an accelerating rate of technological breakthroughs. The race for fusion is ...

A host of startups are racing to achieve commercial fusion power. Zap Energy just drew a line in the sand after announcing its latest device recorded the highest-ever plasma pressures for its ...

Inside a vast, hangar-like building in Devens, a trio of employees are working to test and assemble the pieces of what is likely one of the most advanced machines being built on Earth. One part of a ...

A Vancouver startup says it has a tiny fix for data centers’ enormous energy problem: A “chiplet” designed to deliver power to computers much more efficiently. “As you free up all this power you can ...

Texas startup Janta Power has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to expand its next-generation solar power towers, a vertical alternative to flat solar farms. The funding round was led by MaC ...

The platform, used by CEOs like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Google’s Sundar Pichai, is now worth $29.3 billion. AI coding startup Cursor’s latest funding round values the company at $29.3 billion. The ...

When Oklo Inc., a nuclear power startup, applied in 2020 to operate its first reactor, the company rested largely on outsize ambition. Its MIT-educated co-founders, a married couple named Jacob and ...

With $325,000 in fresh funding from the Maine Technology Institute, Startup Maine is gearing up to hire its first full-time staff member and scale up its flagship annual conference and other ...

The numbers are nothing short of staggering. Take Sam Altman, Open AI’s CEO. He reportedly wants 250 gigawatts of new electricity—equal to about half of Europe’s all-time peak load—to run gigantic new ...

When a winter storm took out the power grid across Texas in 2021, Matt Popovits and his family didn’t have electricity for four days and didn’t have heat in the record cold. “We spent the night ...