The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind swept over the top of NASA's Perseverance rover, a new study said Tuesday. . This time the microphone on the rover's SuperCam -- which previously recorded the first ever audio from the Martian surface -- managed to catch the muffled, whirring sounds of the dust devil.
Wildfires that scorched across Europe this year burned a record land area and stoked carbon emissions, according to an update released on Tuesday by Europe's forest fire and satellite monitors. . Huge fires that raged across Spain and France meant that the countries saw the highest carbon emissions from June to August since the satellite monitor's records began in 2003.
Taken for granted by most consumers in rich countries, the humble LED lightbulb was identified on Tuesday as a strategic ally for Ukraine as Kyiv seeks to resist Russian bombing of its power grid.. Large parts of Ukraine face blackouts and regular load-shedding as the country's power grid buckles under repeated Russian air strikes.
The wife of a missing Laos activist said Tuesday that a decade on she was still no closer to finding answers over his disappearance as more than 60 human rights groups condemned Vientiane's inaction.. In a joint statement, 66 international rights groups characterised Vientiane's lack of response as "a catalogue of apparent inaction, negligence, cover-ups, and misleading statements".
The US Department of Energy is expected to announce Tuesday that its researchers have achieved a "major scientific breakthrough" regarding nuclear fusion, a technology seen as a possible revolutionary alternative power source.. The Energy Department has refused to give any specific details about what it will announce Tuesday, but a Financial Times report over the weekend has set the scientific community abuzz.
For countless generations prior to European colonization, Canada's Indigenous people relied on caribou both as a source of subsistence and as an integral part of their cultural practices.. "Fundamentally we are people of caribou," Valerie Courtois, director of Canada's Indigenous Leadership Initiative and a member of the Innu nation, told AFP. "Caribou is what has really enabled us to survive, and to be who we are."
The world had just eight days to seal a historic deal to stem the destruction of nature. . But the chances of ending on December 19 with agreement for an ambitious "peace pact with nature" -- 20 objectives to stop the destruction of water, forests and living things by the end of the decade -- will be undermined if the draft agreement remains as it is now.
The US Department of Energy's nuclear fusion laboratory says there will be a "major scientific breakthrough" announced Tuesday, as media report that scientists have finally surpassed an important milestone for the technology: getting more energy out than was put in.. According to reports by the Financial Times and the Washington Post, that will be the "major scientific breakthrough" announced Tuesday by the NIF. But Lefebvre cautions that "the road is still very long" before "a demonstration on an industrial scale that is commercially viable."
A Franco-US satellite is due for launch this week on a mission to survey with unprecedented accuracy nearly all water on Earth's surface for the first time and help scientists investigate its impact on Earth's climate.. NASA says SWOT will survey nearly all water on Earth's surface for the first time.
Three boys aged eight, 10 and 11 have died and another boy remains in critical condition after they fell into an icy lake near Birmingham, central England, police said Monday.. "A fourth boy, aged six, remains in a critical condition in hospital."
