Using Starlink’s Satellites To Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in…
Pygmy blue whale beaches and dies off NT coast in first sighting for Gulf of Carpentaria
A pygmy blue whale has beached itself and died on the coast of Groote Eylandt in the Northern…
SpaceXAI and Southaven officials developing plans for new first responder training facility | News
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. – SpaceXAI and Southaven are developing plans for a new first responder training center. In a…
“You’re looking at one of the wildest landscapes on Earth and watching a species that almost nobody has ever studied.“
Researchers have uncovered new information about a rare rodent known as the Wolffsohn’s viscacha, allowing them to reclassify…
How to Prevent Biofuels from Causing Deforestation – Energy Institute Blog
A tax on food uses of vegetable oils could insulate global vegetable-oil prices from U.S. biofuel policy, thereby…
Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2392 (aka. the Lion Nebula), so-named because of its…
Massive Exoplanets Could Form Around Supermassive Black Holes
You’ve read it, heard it in casual conversations, and seen it in TV shows and movies: black holes…
In the 1980s, ferrets were released on Northern Ireland’s Rathlin Island to control rabbits; decades later, they threatened seabirds at a colony of more than 250,000 birds
Ferrets were released on Rathlin Island in the mid-1980s, off the north coast of Northern Ireland, to deal…
They can start out as underwater volcanoes, take up to 30 million years to form – and are home to about 1 million people
What is an atoll? An atoll is a ring-shaped island (often made up of multiple small islets) with…
China’s Renewables Boom Faces Record Clean Power Curtailments
Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind…
HEO to use Planet satellites for non-Earth imaging
WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has…
From Beaches to Bits to Qubits
Insider Brief Silicon’s path from beach sand to quantum processor traces an unbroken arc from 1950s transistor doping…