Everyone’s owned a pinwheel at one time or another. I remember riding in the back of my parents’ car, sticking my pinwheel out the window as we traveled down the street. The speed at which the ...

Drag-based wind energy design. Aiming to translate its expertise in manufacturing monocoque, ribbed components with thermoplastic microspheres, Xenecore is working to develop a fan-shaped, drag-based ...

Nobody has all the answers to the world's energy questions, so New Scientist has teamed up with Statoil to search for solutions from New Scientist’s audience. The question posed is: Why do wind ...