Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - New research from UCLA shows that airborne desert dust traps roughly twice as much heat in the atmosphere as most climate models have estimated, a finding that could sharpen both short-term weather
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - Fake engagement still tempts a lot of Instagram accounts because it offers a fast looking shortcut. A page can buy activity, inflate numbers, and feel like growth is happening, at least for a while.
Bangkok (AFP) April 29, 2026 - Vast tracts of Indonesian rainforest home to endangered orangutans have been cleared for plantations supplying a maker of 'carbon-neutral' packaging, an investigation by AFP and The Gecko Project has found.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - For decades, ion transport in solids has been described as a classical barrier-climbing process, in which an ion must acquire sufficient activation energy to surmount an energy barrier before it can
Boulder CO, US (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - Halter has become the first virtual fencing provider to deliver direct-to-satellite connectivity through its smart cattle collars, eliminating the need for cell towers or on-ranch radio infrastructu
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - A new study describes a perovskite diode that achieves 26.7% power-conversion efficiency when operated as a solar cell and 31% external quantum efficiency when operated as a light-emitting diode, pe
London, UK (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - Reliable electricity supply is critical in desert environments, where cooling systems must function continuously during heatwaves to protect human health. Researchers at King Abdullah University of
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - A prototype lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster was fired for the first time in years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, reaching power levels higher than any previous
Antakya, Turkey (AFP) April 29, 2026 - Selahattin Yogurtcuoglu pulls out his chair to chat with neighbours outside his home in Turkey's Antakya, just as he used to - but nothing is the same since the 2023 earthquake that devastated the ancient city.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - A team of researchers from Fuzhou University, East China Normal University, Anhui Normal University, and Yunnan Normal University has developed a deep-learning framework to reconstruct a global, hig
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - New research conducted on Palmyra Atoll, one of the most remote and ecologically intact islands on Earth, has found that native soil fungi are essential to the regeneration of indigenous rainforest
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - Researchers at Adelaide University are advancing a technology that uses sunlight to convert discarded plastics into hydrogen, syngas and other valuable industrial chemicals, offering a dual solution
Paris, France (AFP) April 29, 2026 - The pace of tropical forest destruction slowed in 2025 after record losses the year before but remained at worrying levels equivalent to 11 football fields per minute, researchers said Wednesday.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - A new 10-year project agreement will advance research on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator, an experimental fusion energy system, paving the way for continued collaboration between the U.S. Dep
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - A research team from Nanjing University has developed a high-precision, 1 km resolution soil moisture dataset for China covering the period 2000 to 2025, using machine learning techniques to overcom
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 - An international team of astrophysicists led by researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands has publicly released one of the largest cosmological simulation datasets ever produced. The archi
