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A group at EPFL reports gallium nitride diodes, grown on silicon wafers, that block more than 3.9 kilovolts before breaking down while their on-resistance, measured per unit of chip area, stays as…
Twelve nearby stars near the top of the target list for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory expose their habitable zones to 10 to 100 times as much X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet radiation as the…
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency reported on its…
Wildfire strips the loosest part of soil carbon far faster than the carbon locked onto minerals, and the loss keeps deepening for about two decades after a fire, according to a synthesis of 210…
Baseline solar electricity costs range from $0.100 to $0.409 per kilowatt-hour across 184 districts of the West African Power Pool, a University of Groningen-led team reports in a modeling study…
The uncertainty in the global ocean heat record has narrowed roughly six-fold since the 1950s, according to a study published Aug. 29, 2026, in Nature Communications by a team led by the Institute of…
A deep-learning model can estimate wave conditions about a kilometer off the coast from coarse global offshore data, a team at Sun Yat-sen University reports in Communications Earth & Environment. In…
The Qubes OS project has disclosed a flaw in its own file-copy tool that it says can hand an attacker control of an entire machine, and has shipped a patch for it. Qubes Security Bulletin 118 is…
A study published on Aug. 29, 2026, in Communications Earth & Environment estimates how much carbon dioxide Mexico's groundwater use puts into the atmosphere, using satellite measurements of the…
Thirteen transiting giant exoplanets observed by JWST fall on the same color-magnitude sequence as free-floating brown dwarfs at similar temperatures, and the methane expected in the planets'…
Researchers have assembled near-complete genomes for eight closely related species of Myotis bats and report that the group adapts to DNA viruses and to RNA viruses in two different ways, in a paper…
NASA switched two of the three science instruments on its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory back on Wednesday, Aug. 26, resuming observations suspended since February. The Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope…