India Surpasses 300 GW of Non-Fossil Power Capacity
India is comfortably on track to meet its goal to have 500 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil-fuel power capacity…
Shanghai starts work on wharf for its “Rocket City”
HELSINKI — Shanghai has begun construction on a wharf intended to connect a planned commercial rocket manufacturing hub…
$37.5M NSF award aims to define new quantum frontiers, take technology from lab to field | CU Boulder Today
A scientific quest to build more accurate clocks, faster computers and new sensors to detect the faintest signs…
In 1960, Turnbull refuge workers began reintroducing trumpeter swans; in 4 years, they moved 37 cygnets, and 21 lonely years later, Solo’s line revived hope in eastern Washington | World News
Two trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator) swim together on calm water, with one bird raising its wings beside its…
In Photos: Nearly Total ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse Stuns Skywatchers
Topline The full Sturgeon Moon rose around the night-side of the world late on Thursday, Aug. 26, and…
‘We praise God’: Australian woman feared missing in Nepal flooding makes contact with family | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
An Australian woman has made contact with her family, more than two days after she was reported missing…
Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut
Finding additional launch facilities … The policy document supports more efficient range scheduling criteria at federally owned spaceports,…
Types of Quantum Computers: 6 Major Quantum Computing Approaches
Insider Brief Quantum computing hardware approaches vary widely, with superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, neutral-atom, topological and annealing systems making…
In 2016, a New Zealand ranger became the only human living on a predator-free island; he stayed to guard the last refuge of the world’s heaviest parrot | World News
Kakapo Pounamu, showing how the bird’s plumage acts as camouflage in vegetation. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Off the…
Microbes are living at pH 12 — roughly the alkalinity of bleach — inside mud volcanoes on the Mariana forearc, and there are so few of them that DNA testing fails to find them at all; researchers had to identify them by the fats they left behind
Deep in the Mariana forearc, the stretch of seafloor west of the Mariana Trench, mud volcanoes vent fluid…
Brazil’s polluted Rio mangroves were disappearing under waste; then local fishers restored 18.2 hectares and more than 60 animal species returned | World News
Local fishers collect waste from Guanabara Bay as part of a mangrove restoration and cleanup effort in Rio…
In pictures – the Blood Moon lunar eclipse wows stargazers across America and Europe
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse was visible over North and South America, the UK and Europe…