As the world continues to experience a worsening climate crisis with record-breaking temperatures, scientists have developed a new, highly reflective glass coating that may help cool a rapidly warming Earth. In theory, the coating — a slurry-like mixture of inexpensive glass and aluminum oxide particles — could reflect high amounts […]
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SAN FRANCISCO – York Space Systems has learned a lot from operating its first production-model spacecraft in orbit for two years. The biggest takeaway, though, has been the need to automate satellite handling on the ground. “In the first few months, it became clear it was going to require as […]
By Donna Lu Sydney city centre richard sowersby/Alamy Large-scale weather patterns and urban overheating are interacting to make Sydney’s inland suburbs up to 10°C warmer than coastal areas during extreme heat events. Urban overheating occurs when temperatures in certain parts of an urban environment are comparatively higher than those in […]
Batman plays a major role in the final scenes. Warner Bros Zack Snyder’s much-anticipated cut of Justice League landed on HBO Max Thursday, bringing the director’s original vision for the DC superheroes to the streaming service. The film comes more than three years after Joss Whedon’s 2017 theatrical cut disappointed […]
The first test of a project backed to spray millions of tonnes of chalk into the stratosphere, in an attempt to ‘dim the sun’ and cool the Earth, could happen in June. Harvard University experts will test the system by sending a large balloon 12 miles above the Swedish town […]
By Donna Lu Burned land and thick smoke covering Australia’s Kangaroo Island NASA Earth Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey The 2019–20 wildfires in Australia injected huge amounts of smoke into the stratosphere, which has led to record aerosol levels over the southern hemisphere. Ilan Koren at the Weizmann Institute of Science in […]
Anyone who’s lived in western Sydney in summer will tell you the days of searing heat and burning bitumen feel very different from the rest of the city. No matter what time of year, it’s generally hotter in the west. Over the past 30 years, the average yearly maximum temperature […]
An illustration of a space hurricane above the North Pole. Qing-He Zhang/Shandong University Typical hurricanes are easy to spot in satellite imagery: Swirling clouds surround a quiet eye. These storms usually form in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, closer to Earth’s surface, and unleash heavy rain and strong winds. […]