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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 5, 2026.
Each holds about three million suns' worth of hydrogen inside a halo weighing 3.7 billion solar masses. If the interpretation holds, they are dark matter halos that never lit up.
A Seoul National University team found the active site on a solid oxide cell's silver nanocatalyst moves when the device flips from making electricity to making hydrogen.
Washington University engineers cracked a trade-off that has blocked fuel-cell catalysts for years, and they are aiming it at the data centers now on track to eat 9% of U.S. electricity.
Conventional gas turbines burn about half their own output driving an air compressor. Karlsruhe engineers deleted the compressor and used detonation waves to raise the pressure instead — beating NASA's runtime record by 53 seconds.
Quantum simulations published in PNAS find hydrogen concentrated at about 16% at the inner core boundary, thinning to 9% at the center — and moving through the iron lattice while the iron itself stays solid.
University of Birmingham researchers say their abundant, non-toxic perovskite splits water into hydrogen at 150 to 500 degrees Celsius — potentially undercutting both green and blue hydrogen on cost.
Washington University engineers built a metal-phosphide cathode that outperformed platinum-based versions in lab tests, tackling one of the biggest cost barriers to green hydrogen.
University of Birmingham researchers say their perovskite catalyst, built from cheap and non-toxic metals, could make hydrogen for less than today's 'green' and 'blue' methods by harnessing heat factories already throw away.
Researchers adapt centuries-old glassmaking techniques to create advanced materials for clean energy and gas storage applications.
Max Planck Institute physicists used hydrogen spectroscopy to measure the proton's charge radius to 2.5 times greater precision than before, resolving the proton radius puzzle and setting the most demanding test of quantum electrodynamics ever conducted.