All electric trains in the Netherlands are now 100% wind-powered

The Netherland's national railway company, NS, has announced that all of its electric passenger trains are now 100 percent powered by wind energy.

researchers turn unwanted clothing into 'supermaterial'

A team from Singapore has devised a "fast, cheap and green method" to convert cotton-based fabric waste such as unwanted clothing into a type of aerogel.

Australian Scientists' Quantum Computing Breakthrough

A team from Australia have found a "quantum hack" - a way to modify qubit surface codes, improving quantum error correction by up to four hundred per cent.

SpaceX's New Rocket Ready for First Flight

If successful, Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful working rocket in use, the rocket that could go to Mars.

Dubai Is Planning To Build The World's Largest Waste To Energy Plant

When up up and running it is expected to treat up to 2 million tons of solid waste every year. This is almost 60% of Dubai’s annual garbage production.

A massive new offshore wind farm will generate power for 1 million homes

Hornsea Project One is expected to be operational in 2020, and it will produce power for more than one million homes.

Hong Kong votes to end its massive ivory trade by 2021

In a historic vote, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong voted 49-4 to ban the trade of ivory by 2021.

Natural telescope sets new magnification record

An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing.

Chile is breaking up with coal too

Chile currently gets between 35-40% of its electricity from coal but the the country's environment minister has just hailed "the beginning of the end of coal".

Cuba Praised for Its Renewable Energy Efforts

An EU official noted “with satisfaction” Cuba’s ambitious goal of having 24 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Tesla to create biggest virtual power plant in the world

The new project in South Australia is using Tesla’s residential battery system, the Powerwall, to create decentralized energy storage, which results in creating a massive virtual power plant.

Planets discovered outside of our galaxy

Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that range from the mass of the Moon to the mass of Jupiter.

Astronomers Find One of the Oldest Stars in the Milky Way

Thanks to a new study by a team of Spanish researchers, the oldest star in the Milky Way may have finally been discovered.

Astrophysicists have built the most detailed simulation of the Universe ever

The simulation consists of 18 simulations covering various scales - each a cubic mock-up of space up to 1 billion light years wide - tracing the evolution of the Universe from just after the Big Bang into the future.