The Moon's Has Enough O2 to Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years

The moon’s regolith is made up of approximately 45 percent oxygen. Each cubic meter of lunar regolith contains 1.4 tons of minerals on average, including about 630 kilograms of oxygen.

A 'Digital Twin' of Earth to Fight Climate Change

Nvidia is building what it calls “the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to predicting climate change. The system will be called Earth-2.

A Solar Farm the Size of 1,000 Football Stadiums Is Going Up in U.S

The Mammoth Solar farm will be built in a rural area of Indiana about 80 miles south-east of Chicago. Distributed throughout that space will be 2,850,000 solar panels, which will generate 1.65 gigawatts of electricity.

IBM claims advance in quantum computing

The new chip has 127 "qubits", twice as many as the previous IBM processor. The company called its new Eagle processor "a key milestone on the path towards practical quantum computation".

110 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030

Signatories include heavily forested nations, such as Brazil, Canada, Russia, the U.S., the U.K., Indonesia, China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

7 countries vow to end new oil and gas exploration

Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Sweden, Wales and Quebec are bravely taking the lead in a commitment to stop exploring for and producing oil and gas.

Renewables can power the world, according to new study

A recent study has found that renewables can meet most of the world’s energy needs. Even the most industrialized countries that need a heavy power supply can rely on renewable energy, specifically wind and solar.  

Astra becomes the fastest rocket company to reach orbit

The launch came five years and one month after Astra was founded in 2016.  SpaceX required six years and four months and Virgin Orbit needed seven or more years to successfully reach orbit.

The Results For Long Mars Simulations Are Worrying

The results from Mars simulations, Project Sirius and project Mars-500, showed worrisome outcome - the astronauts become detached from mission control and almost autonomous with time. 

CoP26: Save Earth, Greta and peers appeal to world leaders

Greta Thunberg along with Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate, Polish activist Dominika Lasota and others released an appealed world leaders to save planet Earth.

Meet Homo bodoensis, New Species of Human Ancestor

Homo bodoensis lived in Africa during the early Middle Pleistocene, around 500,000 years ago, and was the direct ancestor of the Homo sapiens lineage.

First 3D View of Jupiter Atmosphere

New findings from NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet's distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the unseen processes below its clouds.

Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years

Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as early as 2030 under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, according to a new NASA study published in the journal, Nature Food.

New Optical Switch Is Up to 1,000 Times Faster

The device can be switched between its two states a trillion times a second, which is up to 1,000 times faster than today's leading commercial transistors.

Low-Cost Antidepressant Fluvoxamine Saves Lives of COVID-19 Patients

An inexpensive repurposed drug called fluvoxamine can save the lives of COVID-19 patients and cut hospital admissions by up to 30 percent.