February 28, 2025 4 min read Solar and Wind Are Surging But CO2 Is Still Climbing—Here’s Why Renewable energy broke records last year, but so did gas generation. That’s a climate problem By Benjamin Storrow & E&E News Wind turbines…
Wayne McGregor’s Deepstaria is inspired by ocean life Ravi Deepres Deepstaria At Sadlers Wells in London until 2 March, then touring Deepstaria is a genus of deep-sea jellyfish, rarely seen, mysterious and delicate yet predatory. It is usually found between…
NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to see the universe in a whole new way. The agency’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx, mission, is scheduled to launch no…
Artist’s impression of the SPHEREx space telescope NASA/JPL-Caltech The latest addition to NASA’s fleet of space telescopes will launch this weekend and quickly set to work scanning the entire sky in a range of near-infrared wavelengths, collecting rich data on…
A school-age child with measles died in Texas this week, making it the first measles death in the U.S. in 10 years. This child was one of dozens of unvaccinated kids infected with measles in a multi-county, two-state outbreak of…
Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy is set on a drowned future Earth Alamy Stock Photo Dead, you mean? Spread-eagle on that strange white surface which lay beneath the inclement Antarctic sun, Dengue Destroyed saw everything flash by in no more than…
So far astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets—worlds that orbit stars other than our sun. If that number already feels ridiculously large, you’d better brace yourself: through extrapolation, there could be hundreds of billions of planets in our galaxy alone.…
Lisa See’s novel Lady Tan’s Circle of Women was inspired by a medical textbook published in 1511 by an eminent female doctor, Tan Yunxian. In this episode, we talk to See about how she came to write her novel and…
An Atlantic puffin Alex Cooper Photography/Shutterstock Last July I visited Bempton Cliffs, a nature reserve on the north-east coast of England managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Throughout the spring and summer, around half a million…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private Athena lunar lander is on its way to the moon. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off shortly after sunset this evening (Feb. 26), carrying Athena and NASA’s ride-along Lunar Trailblazer orbiter aloft against…
