What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...

An international research team has developed a hybrid maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique for PV systems that operate under partial shading or rapidly changing atmospheric parameters. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...