The UK is negotiating to extend the life of the Sizewell B nuclear power station by 20 years as it seeks to support a grid increasingly reliant on intermittent wind and solar generation. Electricite ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Lila Maladesky's PhD project is funded by the European Research Council Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the colour of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even if ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even if we live in a big city. But most people don't think that much about the ...

The oldest and most powerful nuclear plant in the Tennessee Valley Authority system got a second 20-year operating license extension, which will allow its three reactors to operate until their 80th ...

The Trump administration is proposing to extend the life of some coal plants and their controversial waste-disposal practices. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Tuesday to allow as ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...

Watch the full growth of a cucumber from seed to fruit in this timelapse video. After some initial challenges with rotting cucumbers, adjustments like plexiglass protection and leaf management helped ...

ORLANDO, Florida, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The global interest-rate cutting cycle has likely peaked. The question now is when, or if, today's high-flying markets will start to feel the pinch. Remarkably, ...

Google made a deal to bring an Iowa nuclear plant back to life to power its data centers. Google made a deal to bring an Iowa nuclear plant back to life to power its data centers. is a senior science ...

Partners Group has agreed to acquire Life Cycle Power, a Houston-based provider of mobile power generation solutions from an investment partnership controlled by Arroyo Investors. No financial terms ...

The fiancée of a pastor who was identified as one of the victims in the Tennessee munitions plant explosion said his church became a "packed house" this week after a call for prayer. Trent Stewart was ...