As if Times Weren’t Unsettling Enough, Saturn Is Losing Its Rings The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this moment. 12/21/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Link
Progress is too slow for solar energy transformation and its economic benefits | Letters Energy independence will bring economic benefits; but most important, the future is at stake. This has new urgency through the lens of Trump’s agenda. 12/21/2024 - 9:06 pm | View Link
New Solar Discovery Could Revolutionize Hydrogen Production A new solar cell process using Sn(II)-perovskite oxide material offers a promising pathway for green hydrogen production through water splitting, advancing sustainable energy technologies. Experts in ... 12/21/2024 - 12:23 pm | View Link
One of Texas’ dirtiest coal plants will swap to solar with help from US grant One of Texas' 15 coal plants will shut down and swap to solar + battery storage, with a billion-dollar USDA grant to help rural jobs. 12/21/2024 - 8:01 am | View Link
Astronomers Discover Planets Building Each Other in Space New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of subsequent planets. This finding, based on high-resolution images from ALMA, ... 12/20/2024 - 10:46 pm | View Link
In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. 12/17/2024 - 9:14 am | View Website
Planet Compare NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system. 12/17/2024 - 4:56 am | View Website
In Depth | Venus – NASA Solar System Exploration It's a cloud-swaddled planet named for a love goddess, often called Earth’s twin. But pull up a bit closer, and Venus turns hellish. Our nearest planetary neighbor, the second planet from the Sun, has a surface hot enough to melt lead. 12/17/2024 - 4:06 am | View Website
In Depth | Pluto – NASA Solar System Exploration Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system's ninth planet. But after the discovery of similar intriguing worlds deeper in the distant Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. 12/17/2024 - 1:00 am | View Website
In Depth | Jupiter – NASA Solar System Exploration Jupiter is the fifth planet from our Sun and is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system – more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined. Jupiter's stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. 12/16/2024 - 7:17 pm | View Website
Job seekers must figure out how to navigate a transforming landscape where AI shapes how we approach and think about the hiring system.
Logging onto LinkedIn, your feed is likely full of “Open to Work” profiles and posts about the struggle of finding a job in today’s market. Your LinkedIn inbox is probably a lot quieter with fewer recruiters reaching out with job opportunities than at the height of the Great Resignation just two years ago.
Flood risk can be estimated in waterways without streamgages, but not as accurately.
Flooding is one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in the U. S., causing billions of dollars in damage each year. In 2024 alone, floods destroyed homes in over a dozen states and claimed more than 165 lives.
It’s not yet clear what a second Trump administration could mean for workers’ rights. But across many states, workers can expect to see a number of benefits next year, including raises and expanded sick leave.
The new year—and the return of the Trump administration to the White House—could bring all kinds of changes to the workplace.
Successful community-centered, public-private partnerships (CP3s) rely on the active involvement of a diverse range of partners.
Cities tackle a vast array of responsibilities—from building transit networks to running schools—and sometimes they can use a little help. That’s why local governments have long teamed up with businesses in so-called public-private partnerships. Historically, these arrangements have helped cities fund big infrastructure projects such as bridges and hospitals.
While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, older British holiday traditions.
It’s a common seasonal refrain: “Christmas just isn’t like it used to be.”
Arrests and seizures connected to 3D-printed guns are escalating quickly.
Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years have involved this kind of homemade, or partially homemade, weapon.