On Monday, the Internet got a much better look at military facilities across Russia. Google Maps stopped obscuring the sensitive locations due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of its neighbor Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced the end of Google’s censorship of Russia’s bases on Twitter. Thanks to former US President Read more…
Earlier this week the Voice of America news service shared a story that begins with exclusive photos from a nuclear lab “from which a Ukrainian official says Russian troops stole radioactive material that could be harmful if mishandled….” It is housed in a building run by a state agency managing Read more…
After the Ukrainian army captured one of Russia’s Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles, they decided to do a teardown of it. Their findings show a remarkable amount of jerry-rigged installations using off the shelf components, including the use of a Canon DSLR camera as the main image capturing sensor. Petapixel notes Read more…
California, which aims to have a carbon-free power grid within 25 years, got a short glimpse of that possibility earlier this month. The state’s main grid ran on more than 97% renewable energy at 3:39 p.m. on Sunday April 3, breaking a previous record of 96.4% that was set just Read more…
Scientists believe they have found evidence of microbes that were thriving near hydrothermal vents on Earth’s surface just 300m years after the planet formed — the strongest evidence yet that life began far earlier than is widely assumed. If confirmed, it would suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of Read more…
On March 29, wind turbines produced more electricity than coal and nuclear, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, an agency that collects energy statistics for the government, says. In the past, wind-powered electricity has gone beyond coal and nuclear on separate days, but this was the first time wind surpassed both Read more…
Assembly member Cristina Garcia has cosponsored a bill to make the state’s official workweek 32 hours for companies with 500 or more employees. Any work done past that cutoff would come with a hefty raise: Employers would be required to pay time-and-a-half to workers whose hours run over 32 a Read more…