Abu Dhabi/Geneva – Global renewable energy jobs grew only modestly in 2024 despite installations hitting new highs, according to a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The…
Space Selfies
Space Science Image of the Week: BepiColombo’s solar arrays and antennas are captured in the spacecraft’s first images from space
New Caledonian crows can create compound tools
[caption id="attachment_15927" align="alignnone" width="900"] Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows - credit: Alice Auersperg[/caption] An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and the University of Oxford have revealed that…
Europe’s third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit
ESA--The third MetOp satellite, MetOp-C, has been launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to continue the provision of data for weather forecasting from polar orbit. Carrying the 4083 kg MetOp-C…
Mouse pups with same-sex parents born in China
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences were able to produce healthy mice with two mothers that went on to have normal offspring of their own. Mice from two dads were also born but only…