Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Solar engineer and ABC Solar founder Brad Bartz will deliver a keynote-style talk titled "The Palos Verdes Landslide: Who Turned the Power Back On?" during an upcoming community event at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles on March 14, 2026. The presentation blends scientific storytelling with real-world engineering experience, exploring how fundamental physics principles translate into resilient

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
The boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome, is warming faster than any other major forest type and is now measurably shifting northward. A new analysis of the biome from 1985 to 2020 confirms that boreal forest cover has expanded and migrated toward higher latitudes over the past four decades. In a study led by Feng and colleagues and published in Biogeosciences in February 2

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
The EUMETSAT Council has confirmed that the organisation will remain a key contributor to the European Commission's Destination Earth initiative as it enters Phase Three later this year. Launched in 2022, Destination Earth aims to build highly accurate digital twins of the planet to simulate and predict how natural processes interact with human activities, supporting better-informed decisi

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that human driven climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere more quickly than previously estimated. Using two decades of data from NASA's Microwave Limb Sounder, they find that the atmospheric lifetime of nitrous oxide is shortening at a rate that introdu

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Nanshan district in Shenzhen has built one of the densest hardware and robotics clusters on the planet, centered on a 10-kilometer stretch of Liuxian Avenue known locally as Robot Valley that packs together startups, factories and research labs. Inside this corridor, an embodied intelligent robot serving customers in a cafe has become a shorthand scene for how quickly hardware ideas now re

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a new regenerator material composed solely of abundant elements such as copper, iron and aluminum that can achieve cryogenic temperatures around 4 K (minus 269 degrees Celsius) without using any rare earth metals or liquid helium. The work targets

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
ReOrbit has launched Space Cloud, a multi year initiative to build a distributed network of software enabled satellites that can move and process data securely in orbit, in collaboration with Google Cloud. The company describes the project as a space based data center network that will combine on board computing, advanced networking and cloud style orchestration to support government, military a

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Firefly Aerospace is preparing its next Alpha rocket mission, Flight 7 "Stairway to Seven", as a dedicated return-to-flight test from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Alpha FLTA007 rocket will launch no earlier than February 18 on a mission focused on achieving nominal performance of both the first and second stages rather than deploying an operation