When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The Kardashev Scale, first proposed by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures the technological advancement of civilizations by the amount of energy they can harness and use. In its original ...

The energy transition is incredibly energy-intensive. It starts with mining and manufacturing, followed by adoption. For widespread electrification, an expanded supply chain of metals is required for ...

A Knoxville-based energy company and the United States' largest public power provider marked a new start Sept. 19 for a project that could see commercial nuclear fusion become a reality. The Tennessee ...

Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are critical to sustaining our planet, but they come with a big challenge: they don't always generate power when it's needed. To make the most of them, we ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — As Knoxville-based Type One Energy makes plans to build a prototype fusion power plant at the Bull Run Fossil Plant, seven peer-reviewed scientific papers published in the ...

No wonder the European Marine Energy Center, one of the world’s leading agencies for developing and testing wave and tidal power technologies, chose to set up shop here; the nonprofit agency hosts ...

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the universe’s high-energy neutrinos. “I would say that they can be the major contributor,” says astronomer ...