Geostationary orbit simulation in GlowScript VPython: a practical tutorial that demonstrates orbital mechanics and physics-based visualization of satellites maintaining a fixed position relative to ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Knoxville-based fusion company Type One Energy are establishing a fusion development campus at the Tennessee Valley ...

Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and costs could run to the billions. By Claire Brown and Brad Plumer Over the ...

Colorado Springs Utilities claims it can't comply with state law and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030. Closing Nixon 1, a coal-fired generating unit in Fountain, is a fundamental ...

On Tuesday, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued a now familiar order: because of a supposed energy emergency, a coal plant scheduled for closure would be forced to remain open. This time, the ...

There are all sorts of running goals—conquer a marathon, get out three times a week—but one of the most significant performance-based goals is to Get Faster! Let’s face it: Most of us, unless we’re ...

Northern Indiana Public Service Company said Wednesday it was instructed by federal authorities to keep its R.M. Schahfer power plant operating past its scheduled shutdown at the end of 2025. Under ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

TransAlta Corp. said the U.S. Department of Energy has ordered the company to keep its Centralia Unit 2 coal-fired power plant in Washington State operating beyond its planned retirement date, ...

CALGARY — TransAlta Corp. says the U.S. Department of Energy has ordered it to keep a coal plant in Washington State online for three months longer than planned. Coal-fired generation had been set to ...