Fukuoka, Japan (AFP) April 3, 2026
A Japanese water plant is harnessing the natural process of osmosis to generate renewable energy that could one day become a common power source. The possibility of generating power from osmosis - when water molecules pass from a less salty solution to a more salty one - has long been known. But actually generating energy from that h...

Nuuk (AFP) April 2, 2026
It's Friday night and the port in Nuuk is a hive of activity. Passengers loaded down with heavy bags hurry aboard a rusty red and white ship - Greenland's last ferry. Among them are an ethnologist and a few Danish tourists, but most are Greenlanders from the 74 villages and settlements that dot the west coast, a thin strip of land squeezed betwe...

Paris, France (AFP) Mar 31, 2026
France on Tuesday expressed deep concern over attempts by some countries "to slow down and arbitrarily delay" the publication of the next major report by the UN-mandated expert climate panel. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes reports every five to seven years whose findings on the science of global warming ar...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2026
To operate fusion systems safely and reliably, scientists must monitor plasma fuel conditions and measure properties such as temperature and density that influence fusion reactions. This work depends on specialized sensors known as diagnostics, which can track how plasmas behave under the extreme conditions needed to produce energy. A ne...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026
NASA has used the James Webb Space Telescope to make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4, confirming that it will safely pass both Earth and the Moon in 2032. The asteroid had already been ruled out as a significant threat to Earth, but the latest data eliminate a previously non-zero chance of a lunar impact during that year. The Webb ...