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Zimbabwe launches $500-mln power units to ease energy woes

Kariba, Zimbabwe (AFP) Sept 04, 2014 - Energy-starved Zimbabwe on Thursday launched a $533-million project with China to scale up electricity generation at one of its major power plants in a bid to ease perennial energy woes.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jun 25, 2026

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Titan's atmosphere is roughly four times denser than Earth's while its gravity is only one-seventh as strong, which means a human standing on Saturn's largest moon could strap wings to their arms and, in principle, take off under their own muscle power

Titan's air is four times denser than Earth's and its gravity is one-seventh as strong — a combination so generous to flight that NASA is sending a nuclear-powered octocopter to fly across it, and physics says a human in wings could, in principle, do the same.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Aug 5, 2026
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A fossil bed in North Dakota preserves fish with Chicxulub impact glass trapped in their gills, evidence they were alive as asteroid debris fell 3,000 kilometres from the crater during the first hour or two after the strike that ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs

At the Tanis fossil bed in North Dakota, sturgeon and paddlefish have been found with glass spherules from the Chicxulub impact lodged inside their gills — evidence that the animals were breathing in ejecta from an asteroid strike 3,000 kilometres away, within roughly an hour of the moment the dinosaurs' world ended.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Aug 3, 2026
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How did a Soviet lander survive 127 minutes on the surface of a planet where the air pressure crushes submarines and the ambient heat melts lead?

On 1 March 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander touched down on Venus and kept transmitting for 127 minutes from a place hot enough to melt lead, under pressure that would crush a submarine. Here is how a titanium sphere packed with phase-change salt outlived its own design lifetime by a factor of four.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 31, 2026

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