A major milestone is coming soon for the world's biggest polluter. In 2021, solar power is going to be cheaper than coal in China-faster than many expect, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Power generated from solar energy is already as affordable or less expensive than its coal cousin in places like Germany and the U.S.

WHEN Peidong Yang first took living organisms and connected them to electrified silicon wires, no one thought any good could come of it. "When I proposed the idea, people didn't believe it would work," says Yang. The microbes weren't the only ones that got a shock.

Open the Whitehouse.gov website since President Donald Trump took over and the first item under top issues is his America First Energy Plan. While short on details, the new president's blueprint is chock full of contradictions and outdated assertions about the status of America's energy supply.

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, though fruitless in terms of finding the aircraft, should provide fishermen in the Indian Ocean with detailed sea-floor maps, and help them land huge catches. Australia, Malaysia and China ended the search for the Boeing 777 airliner Tuesday, after a $150 million hunt over almost three years failed to find any trace, leaving one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries unanswered.

Patricia Kim, a History of Art PhD candidate studying Hellenistic Greece at the University of Pennsylvania, is the first to admit she's probably not what comes to mind when you imagine an academic researcher scrambling to archive federal climate data that might be erased by the Trump administration.