An anonymous reader quotes a report from Interesting Engineering: Green Hydrogen International (GHI) has unveiled its plans to build a 60 GW green hydrogen production facility near the Piedras Pintas salt dome in Texas. The facility will be the largest of its kind in the world, the company claimed in Read more…
New research, published in the journal Physiological Entomology, suggests that the palm-sized Joro spider, which swarmed North Georgia by the millions last September, has a special resilience to the cold. This has led scientists to suggest that the 3-inch (7.6 centimeters) bright-yellow-striped spiders — whose hatchlings disperse by fashioning web Read more…
The British government has asked its nuclear regulator to start the process for approving Rolls-Royce’s planned small- scale modular nuclear reactor, which policymakers hope will help cut dependence on fossil fuels and lower carbon emissions. Britain last year backed a $546 million funding round at the company to develop the Read more…
“In a galaxy far, far away, two giant black holes appear to be circling each other like fighters in a galactic boxing ring,” reports USA Today. “Gravity is causing this death spiral, which will result in a collision and formation of a single black hole, a massive event that will Read more…
Nearly a year ago, Electrek reported that scientists published a feasibility study about the benefits of erecting solar panels over canals. That study is about to become a reality in a [one-mile] pilot project in California. The California Department of Water Resources, utility company Turlock Irrigation District, Marin County, California-based Read more…
After years of zooming through deep space, a presumed leftover piece of a Chinese rocket slammed into the Moon today, just as space tracking experts expected it would. At least, it should have hit the Moon around 7:30AM ET this morning, as long as the law of gravity has not Read more…
This week, the US Air Force Research Laboratory released a video on YouTube that didn’t get much attention. But it made an announcement that is fairly significant — the US military plans to extend its space awareness capabilities beyond geostationary orbit, all the way to the Moon. “Until now, the Read more…