Cathay Pacific grounded its A350s after a Zurich-bound jet was forced to turn back to Hong Kong earlier in September. A cleaning process leading to fuel hose degradation during refurbishment…
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Organic or conventional farming? Which system better preserves our fragile insect population
Athree-year run of fragmentary Armageddon-like studies had primed the journalism pumps and settled the media framing about the future of the global insect population: modern agriculture was steering us toward…
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion
This picture taken by LOFAR shows Porphyrion, with the galaxy hosting the supermassive black hole in the centre. The largest blob-like structure near the centre is a separate smaller jet…
Food fussiness a largely genetic trait from toddlerhood to adolescence, study suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fussy eating is mainly influenced by genes and is a stable trait lasting from toddlerhood to early adolescence, finds a new study led by researchers from…
Storing the sun’s heat at 1,200°C
After up to 500 hours in the oven, many of the materials show visible signs of corrosion. Credit: Empa Closing the CO₂ cycle by converting climate-damaging carbon dioxide back into…
Archaeologists excavate one of Europe’s largest Neolithic settlements
Archaeologists are excavating a fortified settlement associated with the Linear Pottery Culture at Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European…
Mysteries of the bizarre ‘pseudogap’ in quantum physics finally untangled
An illustration of colored balls on a chessboard-like grid similar to the Hubbard model. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation By cleverly applying a computational technique, scientists have made a breakthrough in…
Brazil judge orders X to reimpose block or face hefty fine
This photo illustration shows the social media platform X (former Twitter) app on a smartphone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 18, 2024. Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered…
COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables
Governments will be asked to sign up to a goal to boost energy storage six-fold and renew or add 80 million km of electric grids, among other initiatives Azerbaijan, which…
