As renewable forms of power like wind and solar continue to gain prominence, there will be a need for creative solutions when it comes to storing energy from sources that are intermittent by nature.

he planet was detected by the James Webb telescope. Scientists have identified an entirely new category of "liquid planet" that exists in a permanent, molten state. Traditionally, small exoplanets ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Deep inside rocky planets like Earth, the behavior of iron can greatly affect the properties of molten rock materials: properties that influenced how Earth formed and evolved. Scientists used powerful ...

Scientists have identified an entirely new category of "liquid planet" that exists in a permanent, molten state. Traditionally, small exoplanets were categorized as either rocky "gas-dwarfs" with ...