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Geothermal energy is making a comeback as engineers unlock deep-earth heat with new drilling and closed-loop technologies.

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The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the “principle of minimum change” — updating beliefs as little as possible ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable ...