Abundant element alloy enables rare earth free cryogenic cooling
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 12:12
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a new regenerator material composed solely of abundant elements such as copper, iron and aluminum that can achieve cryogenic temperatures around 4 K (minus 269 degrees Celsius) without using any rare earth metals or liquid helium. The work targets
In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a new regenerator material composed solely of abundant elements such as copper, iron and aluminum that can achieve cryogenic temperatures around 4 K (minus 269 degrees Celsius) without using any rare earth metals or liquid helium. The work targets Shenzhen district powers dense robot innovation ecosystem
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 12:12
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Nanshan district in Shenzhen has built one of the densest hardware and robotics clusters on the planet, centered on a 10-kilometer stretch of Liuxian Avenue known locally as Robot Valley that packs together startups, factories and research labs.
Inside this corridor, an embodied intelligent robot serving customers in a cafe has become a shorthand scene for how quickly hardware ideas now re
Nanshan district in Shenzhen has built one of the densest hardware and robotics clusters on the planet, centered on a 10-kilometer stretch of Liuxian Avenue known locally as Robot Valley that packs together startups, factories and research labs.
Inside this corridor, an embodied intelligent robot serving customers in a cafe has become a shorthand scene for how quickly hardware ideas now re Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 12:12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that human driven climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere more quickly than previously estimated. Using two decades of data from NASA's Microwave Limb Sounder, they find that the atmospheric lifetime of nitrous oxide is shortening at a rate that introdu
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that human driven climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere more quickly than previously estimated. Using two decades of data from NASA's Microwave Limb Sounder, they find that the atmospheric lifetime of nitrous oxide is shortening at a rate that introdu EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 12:12
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
The EUMETSAT Council has confirmed that the organisation will remain a key contributor to the European Commission's Destination Earth initiative as it enters Phase Three later this year.
Launched in 2022, Destination Earth aims to build highly accurate digital twins of the planet to simulate and predict how natural processes interact with human activities, supporting better-informed decisi
The EUMETSAT Council has confirmed that the organisation will remain a key contributor to the European Commission's Destination Earth initiative as it enters Phase Three later this year.
Launched in 2022, Destination Earth aims to build highly accurate digital twins of the planet to simulate and predict how natural processes interact with human activities, supporting better-informed decisi Landsat study maps boreal forest shift north
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 12:12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
The boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome, is warming faster than any other major forest type and is now measurably shifting northward. A new analysis of the biome from 1985 to 2020 confirms that boreal forest cover has expanded and migrated toward higher latitudes over the past four decades.
In a study led by Feng and colleagues and published in Biogeosciences in February 2
The boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome, is warming faster than any other major forest type and is now measurably shifting northward. A new analysis of the biome from 1985 to 2020 confirms that boreal forest cover has expanded and migrated toward higher latitudes over the past four decades.
In a study led by Feng and colleagues and published in Biogeosciences in February 2 From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSea
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 12:12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Solar engineer and ABC Solar founder Brad Bartz will deliver a keynote-style talk titled "The Palos Verdes Landslide: Who Turned the Power Back On?" during an upcoming community event at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles on March 14, 2026. The presentation blends scientific storytelling with real-world engineering experience, exploring how fundamental physics principles translate into resilient
Solar engineer and ABC Solar founder Brad Bartz will deliver a keynote-style talk titled "The Palos Verdes Landslide: Who Turned the Power Back On?" during an upcoming community event at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles on March 14, 2026. The presentation blends scientific storytelling with real-world engineering experience, exploring how fundamental physics principles translate into resilient Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 11:45
Satellite data have captured the intensity of rainfall over the Iberian Peninsula during three severe winter storms, and the extent of flooding that followed around the Tejo River and basin in Portugal.
Watch live: first launch of Ariane 6 with four boosters
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 09:10
An emotional countdown to the maiden launch of the Ariane 64, Europe's most powerful rocket
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Voyager wins NASA ISS mission management role through 2030
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Voyager Technologies has secured a new Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity mission management contract from NASA's Johnson Space Center with a ceiling of 24.5 million dollars over four years to support International Space Station operations through 2030. Under the agreement, Voyager will provide full service mission management for ISS payloads, anchoring recurring mission execution across mu
Voyager Technologies has secured a new Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity mission management contract from NASA's Johnson Space Center with a ceiling of 24.5 million dollars over four years to support International Space Station operations through 2030. Under the agreement, Voyager will provide full service mission management for ISS payloads, anchoring recurring mission execution across mu UK backs new electric propulsion hub for satellite engines
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
London, UK (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
A new electric propulsion laboratory for satellite engines has opened at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, providing UK space companies with access to advanced testing and development facilities. The Disruptive Experimental Electric Propulsion (DEEP) Lab has been built by space technology company Magdrive with support from the UK Space Agency's Space Clusters Infrastructu
A new electric propulsion laboratory for satellite engines has opened at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, providing UK space companies with access to advanced testing and development facilities. The Disruptive Experimental Electric Propulsion (DEEP) Lab has been built by space technology company Magdrive with support from the UK Space Agency's Space Clusters Infrastructu Amino acids in Bennu asteroid hint at icy radioactive origin
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Amino acids discovered in samples from the Bennu asteroid may have formed in an icy, radioactive environment in the early solar system, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The findings challenge long-held assumptions that these building blocks of life on asteroids formed primarily in the presence of warm liquid water.
The team analyzed a small amount of Bennu material,
Amino acids discovered in samples from the Bennu asteroid may have formed in an icy, radioactive environment in the early solar system, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The findings challenge long-held assumptions that these building blocks of life on asteroids formed primarily in the presence of warm liquid water.
The team analyzed a small amount of Bennu material, Pressure driven leakage from marine snow feeds deep ocean microbes
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
For many years, scientists viewed the deep ocean as a nutrient poor realm where microbes in the water column scraped by on scarce resources. New research from the University of Southern Denmark now shows that these dark waters receive a significant and previously overlooked energy subsidy from sinking organic particles.
The study, led by biologists at
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
For many years, scientists viewed the deep ocean as a nutrient poor realm where microbes in the water column scraped by on scarce resources. New research from the University of Southern Denmark now shows that these dark waters receive a significant and previously overlooked energy subsidy from sinking organic particles.
The study, led by biologists at Venus radar study reveals vast underground lava cave
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Volcanic activity is a key force shaping the surfaces of rocky planets, and new work from Italy indicates that Venus hosts a giant empty lava tube beneath its surface. Using radar images from NASA's Magellan mission, a team at the University of Trento has identified a skylight feature in the Nyx Mons region that reveals a large underground cavity interpreted as a lava conduit.
The study, p
Volcanic activity is a key force shaping the surfaces of rocky planets, and new work from Italy indicates that Venus hosts a giant empty lava tube beneath its surface. Using radar images from NASA's Magellan mission, a team at the University of Trento has identified a skylight feature in the Nyx Mons region that reveals a large underground cavity interpreted as a lava conduit.
The study, p JWST study links sulfur rich gas giants to core growth in distant HR 8799 system
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Gas giants are large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with dense cores but no solid surfaces. Astronomers have long debated how the most massive of these worlds form and where the boundary lies between true planets and brown dwarfs. A new investigation of the HR 8799 planetary system using the James Webb Space Telescope provides key evidence that even very massive gas giants can gr
Gas giants are large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with dense cores but no solid surfaces. Astronomers have long debated how the most massive of these worlds form and where the boundary lies between true planets and brown dwarfs. A new investigation of the HR 8799 planetary system using the James Webb Space Telescope provides key evidence that even very massive gas giants can gr