The world’s energy watchdog has advised governments to reduce highway speeds and encouraged workers to carpool or, ideally, work from home to combat soaring oil prices and impending fuel shortages caused by the Middle East conflict. It has also recommended countries consider limiting car access to designated zones in large cities, by giving vehicles with…
NASA’s repaired Artemis II moon rocket began a glacial 12-hour trip back to the launch pad early Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, setting the stage for a delayed April 1 launch to send four astronauts on a historic nine-day flight around the moon and back. Mounted atop a powerful Apollo-era crawler-transporter, the…
Kīlauea has entered its second year of episodic activity after reawakening in December 2024. Since then, the Hawaiian volcano has gone through dozens of bouts of lava fountaining, each lasting several hours to several days. Activity ramped up once again on March 10, 2026, for episode 43 of the eruption. From approximately 9 a.m. to…
Huge tips in Wigan, Sheffield and Lancashire – together containing 48,000 tonnes of waste – have been earmarked for clearance by the Environment Agency. A 20,000-tonne site in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, is already being cleared at a cost of more than £9m. Source: Read Full Article
Examining 31 ancient societies across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, researchers found that democratic systems were more widespread than once believed — and not determined by population size or geography. The Acropolis at Athens by Leo von Klenze. The word ‘democracy’ was, of course, invented by the Greeks — demokratia meant simply that people (demos)…
An early-season heat wave baking the West this week obliterated numerous all-time records in California and Arizona on Wednesday and Thursday. The summerlike conditions are expected to persist and expand east in the coming days. Across Southern California and the Desert Southwest, around 38 million people are under heat alerts. High temperatures in the upper…
The New South Wales government will continue to green-light coalmine expansions, effectively rejecting a warning from its climate agency that approving new developments would be inconsistent with the state’s legislated emissions targets. Releasing a statement on the coal industry’s future, the Labor government said it would no longer consider proposals for “standalone greenfield coalmines” on…
An early-season heat wave baking the West this week obliterated numerous all-time records in California and Arizona on Wednesday and Thursday. The summerlike conditions are expected to persist and expand east in the coming days. Across Southern California and the Desert Southwest, around 38 million people are under heat alerts. High temperatures in the upper…
Pets encounter a variety of everyday risks, from outdoor threats like animals or parasites to physical dangers like vehicles or sharp objects and household toxins like plants or cleaners. However, many owners may underestimate the invisible dangers—such as poisonous metals—that their pets could also come across in their daily lives. Source: Read Full Article
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Accidentally running face-first into your mom’s butt is funny, no matter your species. The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards opened for entries this week and to hype up the 2026 competition, the top wildlife photography competition for not-so-serious animals has released outtakes…
