Each Hybrid Power Tree boasts a solar system size of 4.9-kilowatt (kW), added with an additional 3 kW wind turbine based on an 8 miles per hour (mph) wind speed for 5 hours.

Dollar Tree appliances and electronics aren't known for their lasting power, but this trick can help their budget-friendly solar lights keep on going.

High radiocarbon levels in the rings of subfossil tree stumps suggest that an incomprehensibly powerful solar storm, known as a "Miyake event," smashed into our planet more than 14 millennia ago.

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Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space, by Kevin Peter Hand. Princeton, 204 pages, $27.95. Perhaps we are the only ones. Perhaps the origin of life is hard, and life is rare. Or ...

A spruce tree with a recording unit attached, in the Dolomite mountains in Italy. (Image Credit: Monica Gagliano/Southern Cross University) Whenever a solar eclipse occurs, life seems to stand still ...

The Energy Tree, as it is called, is about 5 m (16 ft) tall and features what its developers tout as the world’s first 3D leaf-shaped photovoltaic nanotechnology. These solar cells have a power ...

By studying tree rings in Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, Russia, and the U.S., a team of researchers has been able to gain insight into solar activity more than 9,000 years ago by studying a type ...

Solar flares spotted in the rings of trees could help scientists pinpoint with more certitude the dates of ancient events. Astrochronology is making the science of reading tree rings more reliable ...