‘Nothing has changed’ – Waterford Council stands firm against controversial windfarm plan – News
Waterford City and County Council has confirmed its opposition to the proposed Dyrick Hill Wind Farm. The council…
Saturn’s moon Titan has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s and seas you could sail on, and it is the one place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit, though its surface sits at about minus 179 degrees Celsius
Of all the places people talk about settling beyond Earth, Titan is the one that makes me stop…
What is the breakthrough in China’s artificial sun project? A 6.5 Tesla magnet
New Delhi: China’s superconducting magnets have passed key tests at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of…
Fat squirrels, rowdy bears and burned-out rangers: How Trump policies are scrambling America’s national parks
As a backcountry ranger at a national park, Sam built a career doing work that many visitors never…
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the debris it left behind traced its birthplace to beyond Jupiter, in the outer solar system
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly ten kilometres across struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…
A Ton Of Space Junk Returns To Earth Weekly As Rocket Launches Rise: Report
The amount of space junk falling back to Earth is increasing as more rockets and satellites are launched…
US develops two-knob quantum simulator with precise thermal control
Scientists in the US have developed a novel way to control temperature inside a trapped-ion quantum simulator that…
A 14-kilometre iceberg cut off food supply to an Antarctic penguin colony, and chick numbers dropped by 69% in one breeding season
How one iceberg changed everything for Antarctic penguin colony When it comes to nature, it often reminds us…
Scientists left water inside a battery and nearly doubled its power
Sodium ion batteries could offer a more sustainable way to store large amounts of energy, and new research…
Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge
Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities…
Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured “polygons”
Picture a vast field of honeycombed polygonal rocks stretching to the horizon in an otherworldly valley. NASA’s Curiosity…