Seoul (AFP) April 30, 2026 - Samsung Electronics said Thursday that operating profit soared 750 percent on-year to a record high in the first quarter thanks to strong sales of chips crucial for artificial intelligence, and forecast continued healthy demand in the next three months.
London, United Kingdom (SPX) Apr 30, 2026 - The underground Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation, or PULSE, at the Nevada National Security Site contains numerous mapped faults whose seismic behavior remains poorly
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2026 - Researchers have developed a feature selection-based solar irradiance forecasting method to improve the operation of stand-alone photovoltaic systems. The approach uses a bidirectional long short-te
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2026 - Researchers have developed a fast prediction and suppression method for transient piston displacement overshoot in free piston Stirling generators, addressing a fault condition that can quickly esca
Kourou (AFP) April 30, 2026 - Europe's most powerful rocket Ariane 6 successfully released 32 satellites into orbit Thursday for Amazon's internet constellation, which is bidding to rival Elon Musk's giant Starlink.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2026 - Inverted perovskite solar cells are widely considered the future of next-generation photovoltaics due to their high efficiency, low cost, and ease of manufacturing. A collaborative research team fro
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2026 - The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has declared the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed, known as DOME, open for business, marking a milestone for the
Denpasar, Indonesia (AFP) April 30, 2026 - Buckets of blooms adorn Yuvita Anggi Prinanda's sidewalk flower stall in Bali, but their perfume can't mask the stench of accumulating trash bespoiling parts of the resort island famed for its natural beauty.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2026 - Perovskite solar cells have emerged as one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic technologies, but their development still depends heavily on time-consuming trial-and-error synthesis an
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 30, 2026 - Using three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED), researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat (FAU) Erlangen-Nurnberg have demonstrated that electrons can provide the averaged structural info
Santa Marta, Colombia (AFP) April 30, 2026 - Nearly 60 nations hailed progress in the fight to exit fossil fuels as a breakaway conference wrapped up in Colombia on Wednesday - but now face the harder work of turning words into action.
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
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
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2026 - At a dusty lot an hour outside Beijing, a steady stream of vehicles come and go for a quick battery charge - just one node in China's rapidly expanding network of electric trucks.
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.
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.
