Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
After years of international negotiation and diplomacy, the High Seas Treaty has come into force in January 2026, with 61 states ratifying the agreement to protect international waters and marine life. The milestone has renewed debate over whether international law can meaningfully safeguard the ocean without robust enforcement and complementary direct action. In a new book titled The Only

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
What is the state of a quantum system? Answering this question is essential for exploiting quantum properties in emerging devices and for developing new quantum technologies across computing, sensing and secure communications. Quantum technologies, whether computers, sensors or cryptographic systems, all rely on one essential step: the characterisation of quantum states. This process, know

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Cryptocurrency markets are known for extreme price swings, where values can rise or drop dramatically within hours. This volatility creates uncertainty for traders, investors, and institutions trying to move assets safely. Stablecoins have emerged to provide a consistent value anchor amid these fluctuations, offering predictable liquidity and price stability. Among them, USDT stands as one of th

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is joining with Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a world class high heat flux facility to test fusion energy materials at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Bull Run Energy Complex in East Tennessee. The new facility will evaluate how plasma facing components perform when exposed to the extreme heat

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
A new theoretical study shows that intense laser fields could greatly enhance nuclear fusion reactions by reshaping the collision energies of interacting nuclei before they tunnel through the Coulomb barrier. The work tackles one of fusion energy's central challenges, the strong electrostatic repulsion between positively charged nuclei that usually demands temperatures of tens of millions of kel

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
A long standing idea in planetary science is that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history could have delivered a major share of the planet's water. A new study that mines the Moon's impact history now argues that this late delivery pathway could only have supplied a small fraction of Earth's oceans. In work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a te

Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
What's the shape of water? In 2022, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to answer this question by precisely measuring the height and extent of bodies of water. Virginia Tech geoscientists are using the same satellite to ask a related question: How is water shaping the land? "We wanted to show how the satellite could be used in ways that it wasn't pr

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Spire Global has been selected by AiDASH to supply advanced space-based weather intelligence for AiDASH's vegetation, storm and ignition risk platform used by electric utilities in North America. The collaboration integrates Spire's high-resolution forecasts and meteorology support into AiDASH's AI-driven tools for vegetation management and outage prediction across modern power grids. AiDA

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
By resurrecting a 3.2 billion year old enzyme and testing it inside living microbes, researchers have opened a new experimental window on early Earth and how to recognize signs of life on other worlds. The work, led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and supported by NASA, uses synthetic biology to reconstruct ancient biochemistry in the laboratory. The team focused on ni