ETH Zurich is celebrating big news from two battery companies that are spin-offs of university research. They are leveraging Swiss industry expertise that involves novel layered production techniques. BTRY is the maker of an ultra-thin solid-state battery that “charges in minutes [and] stores for years,” per the designers. 8inks offers a battery manufacturing process that […]
It’s back! After unleashing the strongest geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years, the notorious sunspot cluster AR3664 is once again visible and still spewing copious amounts of radiation into space. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center recorded a solar flare erupting from the southeast limb of the Sun on […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday that sending NATO troops into Ukraine would potentially be extremely dangerous, and Moscow was closely watching a Ukrainian petition that called for such an intervention. The petition, posted on the Ukrainian president’s website, says Ukraine should ask the United States, Britain and other countries to send troops to […]
LONDON (AP) — Hugh Grant accepted “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him, the actor said Wednesday after the agreement was announced in court. Grant said he reluctantly settled because of a […]
LONDON (AP) — Hugh Grant received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him, the actor said Wednesday after the agreement was announced in court. Grant, who along with Prince Harry had sued […]
Around 62 million tonnes of old or unwanted gadgets were thrown out in 2023, enough to circle the Earth in 40-tonne trucks packed full and parked bumper-to-bumper. The volume of so-called e-waste, which includes mobile phones, TVs and vapes, is “rising five times faster than documented recycling,” according to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and […]
What was little more than a speck of light for the Hubble Space Telescope has been revealed as one of the oldest galaxies ever discovered — and the finding owes itself to none other than Hubble’s younger sibling: The James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope international “Glass” Collaboration made detailed observations of […]
A bull elephant seal on a California beach shocked researchers in 2022 with an uncharacteristic good deed, a recent study reported. The seal pushed a pup being swept out to sea back to shore at Point Reyes National Seashore, a Marine Mammal Science study published Jan. 25 said. “No one has ever heard of this […]
Donald Trump’s latest filing in his Florida criminal case claiming his prosecution is politically motivated and unfair won’t go well for him, argues Andrew Weissmann, a former Mueller senior prosecutor, during an appearance on MSNBC. The most crucial part of the case, host Nicolle Wallace said, lies in the national security risk it posed, demonstrating […]
In the Milky Way, not far from our sun, lies a colossal chain of gas clouds. It’s called the Radcliffe Wave. Some 800 million stars live within the Radcliffe Wave, and the wave’s star-forming gas is even now seeding hundreds of millions more. As you may imagine, the astronomers who discovered the Wave named it […]
A gigantic skull on a Monterey Bay beach that has visitors posting snapshots to social media poses something of a mystery, a California museum reported. The skull at Pajaro Dunes State Beach in Watsonville probably belongs to either a fin or blue whale, experts told SFGate. “They’re both gigantic whales,” Robert Boessenecker, chief paleontologist at […]
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is coming off a record year for electric vehicle sales. It delivered 1.8 million cars in 2023, including 1.2 million of its Model Y which became the best-selling vehicle of any kind, globally. Tesla made headlines throughout the year for slashing prices to spur demand, because consumers were suffering under the pressures […]