China completes installation of 15,927 mirrors concentrating heat at 1,040 °F at world’s highest solar thermal plant; will power 50,000 homes while saving 60,000 tons of coal annually

China has completed the construction of the world’s highest solar thermal plant on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, located at the height of 15,258 feet in Amdo County. The 100 megawatt (MW) project is designed to operate in an environment characterised by strong winds, sub-zero temperatures, and high ultraviolet radiation. According to information released by CGTN, the…

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World’s first seaweed harvest between 139 offshore wind turbines in the Netherlands can serve two purposes at once

Representative Image of floating seaweed farms operating alongside offshore wind turbines in the North Sea (AI-generated image) A vessel recently sailed through the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm off the Dutch coast to collect the first-ever harvest of seaweed grown between operating turbines, marking a milestone for a project testing whether offshore wind farms can…

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A Connecticut cemetery leased unused land for 7,000 solar panels, but the ground beneath them could become habitat for bees and pollinators

Representative Image of a cemetery with solar panels surrounded by wildflowers and native grasses (AI-generated image) At the back of a Catholic cemetery in Torrington, Connecticut, a wide field once sat empty for years, too far from the graves to ever be needed. Then came rows of dark solar panels, built on land owned by…

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‘Why are there such rigid rules? Why should we have to do things a certain way?’

Kannada Star Yash is making his grand comeback to the big screens almost 4 years after blockbuster ‘KGF 2’. He has two big projects in his lineup including the much-awaited ‘Toxic’ and the mythological epic ‘Ramayana’. While promoting his films, Yash spoke about Geetu Mohandas directorial and talked about that with the younger generation and…

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Point Nemo is so remote that astronauts can be closer than people on Earth, yet its surrounding waters are a cemetery for spacecraft

There is a stretch of the South Pacific Ocean so remote that the closest people to it are usually astronauts orbiting 400 kilometres overhead, not sailors or fishermen. This is Point Nemo, a spot 2,688 kilometres from the nearest land in every direction, and for more than five decades it has served a purpose most…

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‘It’s easier to be responsible for the decisions that you’ve made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you,’ life lesson by the Hollywood star explaining it is important to make your own choices and to live with them

Quote of the day by John Travolta: ‘It’s easier to be responsible for the decisions that you’ve made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you,’ life lesson by the Hollywood star explaining it is important to make your own choices and to live with them John Travolta has seen his…

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Minnesota teen Evan Morris built a low-cost system that detected seizure-like activity in worms and triggered ultrasound; recurrence fell 70.1% in his model

Evan Morris (Image Credit: Society For Science) Eighteen-year-old Evan Morris of Saint Paul, Minnesota, has developed a low-cost experimental system that could offer researchers a faster way to study how brain stimulation might control seizures. His project, called SILENCE: On-demand seizure suppression via closed-loop sonogenetics, uses genetically modified worms, a computer-controlled detection system and ultrasound…

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