US study warns a 1-in-250-year solar storm could cut power to 5 million, cost $1.8 billion a day
New research estimates the devastating effects an extreme geomagnetic storm would have on the United States and how…
Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster
Quantum computers remain highly vulnerable to errors and tiny disturbances from their surroundings. The longer a quantum operation…
First case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lion confirmed – as it happened | Australia news
Confirmed case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lionLisa Cox South Australia has confirmed its first H5…
From 1974 to 1990 Kumamoto Prefecture sealed about 1.5 million cubic metres of Minamata Bay sediment above 25 ppm mercury under a 58-hectare landfill that cost 48 billion yen
Stand on the eastern shore of Minamata Bay today and part of the ground underfoot is manufactured: 58…
Where El Nino is already making its mark
In some parts of the world, El Nino can trigger erratic changes in precipitation and wind. That can…
Solar system’s smallest planet shrinking faster than we thought
There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far…
First case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lion confirmed – as it happened | Australia news
Confirmed case of bird flu in endangered Australian sea lionLisa Cox South Australia has confirmed its first H5…
Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths. There, dark…
Chinese Industry Is Starting to Wean Off Fossil Fuels
By several measures, Chinese industry is becoming less dependent on fossil fuels, according to a new analysis. New…
Andromeda is visible from 2.5 million light-years because the light of hundreds of billions of stars blends together. But an Earth-like planet there would be roughly ten billion times fainter than its own star and separated from it by only about 1.3 microarcseconds—far beyond the direct-imaging ability of any existing telescope.
Andromeda can be found without a telescope under a sufficiently dark sky, even though its light has travelled…
Researchers Discover a Green Hydrogen ‘Goldmine’ Beneath Australia’s Red Dirt : ScienceAlert
The search is on for natural sources of hydrogen that could potentially fast-track humanity to a low-carbon energy…
Researchers put cameras in the trees of the second largest rainforest in the world. Here’s what they found
Stretching across the vast Congo Basin in Africa is the second largest rainforest on the planet – and…