Belgium’s largest wildfire on record spreads towards German border | Climate News
Neighbouring countries send personnel to help keep the blaze from crossing into Germany. Published On 16 Aug 202616…
Three Irish observatories draw on combined history in push for Unesco recognition – The Irish Times
Three historic observatories on the island of Ireland are teaming up in a bid to gain Unesco World…
China pushes quantum entanglement 4x to 260 miles across fiber
Quantum networks could eventually connect computers and sensors across cities, but distance remains a major engineering hurdle. Quantum…
Sandhill cranes will be fair game for hunters in 2 Quebec regions, parts of Ontario this fall
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.
On one night in August 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope recorded a faint point of mid-infrared light…
What drought-resistant plants are suitable for Irish gardens? – The Irish Times
Could you please provide a list of drought-resistant plants suitable for Irish gardens? My own garden has suffered…
NASA funds spherical ‘Aerobots’ that could explore the caves of Saturn’s moon Titan
Spherical “Aerobots” may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says…
‘Giraffe’s head’ sinkhole stunt backfires in South Africa
When politicians from South Africa’s main opposition party put a stuffed giraffe’s head into a sinkhole, their plan…
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a spacecraft with razor-thin power margins and no possibility of physical repair.
Voyager 2 has no repair port that anyone can reach, no spare spacecraft waiting nearby and no possibility…
Two dead, hundreds evacuated from fires near Athens
Two people have died and hundreds were evacuated as two fires broke out on the Greek island of…
Historic observatories unite in bid to obtain global heritage status
Three historic observatories on the island of Ireland are teaming up in a bid to gain Unesco World…
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are challenging a familiar picture…