Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Roughly a year ago, Spain and Portugal went dark when the electrical grid of the entire Iberian Peninsula failed. While the grid operators did a heroic job of restarting the…
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World’s Largest Dinosaur needs a new home
Anyone in the market to take ownership of the World’s Largest Dinosaur? The 86-foot-tall, 145,000-pound Tyrannosaurus rex named Tyra resides in the small town of Drumheller in the Canadian Badlands…
Study says roads bring more fires to forests; USDA wants more roads to fight fires
When the Trump administration announced plans last year to rescind a rule limiting roadbuilding and timber harvests on millions of acres of national forests and grasslands, officials called the repeal…
NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets
2 Min Read NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets Caltech Keck Institute of Space Studies (KISS) team during a March 2026 workshop. Credits: Kiss As NASA seeks to understand…
NASA’s Water-Hunting Tool Will Help Scout Moon’s South PoleÂ
Apollo 17 geologist and astronaut Harrison Schmitt next to a large bolder on the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the Moon. NASA NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice…
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self-propagating and never-before-seen backdoor—and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines. The group,…
Tropical Cyclone Narelle Crosses Australia
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Tropical Cyclone Narelle… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions…
A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter
Jupiter’s colossal storms generate lightning flashes at least 100 times more powerful than those on Earth, according to scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The findings were published March…
US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
On Monday, the Trump administration announced its newest approach to its goal of blocking the development of offshore wind: pay companies to walk away from lease sites they had paid…
Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help
The rise of touchscreen technology has been a boon in many respects, but for people with long fingernails, there can be issues with the capacitive variety since fingernails are non-conductive…