Ever take a look at a solar panel system and think to yourself: I could build that. The truth is that you probably can. Building a cheap, solar panel system is a fun project to take on that if done ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The young researchers gathered on the rooftop of Caltech’s engineering laboratory in Pasadena on a balmy May ...

Harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth is a decades-old idea. Now, a raft of companies say they could finally make it a reality. At an American football stadium in Florida last ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In his short story “Reason”, published in 1941, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov described a universe in ...