Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That’s a problem for our ideas about the universe.
Vice President Kamala Harris has strongly supported clean energy investments, while Donald Trump has railed against them. But transformative shifts in the energy landscape already are well underway.
China has spent ten times more on clean energy than either the US or Europe over the past five years.
Rising electricity demand, especially to power data centers, could make restoring some nuclear plants that closed early financially viable.
The promised ‘white gold rush’ would extract lithium alongside geothermal power production. The mineral is used in EV batteries, but even this less-polluting mining raises local health concerns.
Solar is becoming a major player in electricity generation and scientists are trying to boost its efficiency still further.
To achieve a ‘just transition’ from oil and gas to renewables, the UK government must learn from what happened with coal.
The Hubble tension has been described as a “crisis” for cosmology. Can it be resolved?
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