The proliferation of nuclear power in space got a little more real Tuesday with the launch of a small satellite developed by a Florida-based company […]
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Dimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño
As worries about a growing super El Niño mount, new findings suggest a radical solution to mitigating its impacts.
Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst
One of the central features of plate tectonics is the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges. Part of the spreading process that drives continents […]
US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge
US rare earths produced by Washington-backed companies are flowing to Japan and South Korea, as American demand has yet to materialize despite the Trump administration’s […]
NASA transfers ownership of Maryland woodland to the US Fish and Wildlife Service
A rare 2026 story of good news for the planet.
Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots
Credit: Samuel T. Fabian et al., 2026 Credit: Samuel T. Fabian et al., 2026 Male dragonflies are known to engage in mid-air “dogfights” to defend […]
Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan
Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases.
Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds
Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally […]
British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit
The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave.
NRC is (sort of) getting rid of “as low as reasonably achievable” standard
Last week, just before the US started its break for the July Fourth holiday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed a new rule that would […]