For the first time ever, wind and solar produced 17.96% more electricity in the month of April than nuclear power plants.
Further, electrical generation by clean energy – which included biomass, geothermal, and hydropower and was driven by strong solar and wind growth – accounted for almost 30% of total US electrical generation in the month of April, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of…
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July 8, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
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On Thursday, NASA issued a statement strongly condemning the actions of three Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station, who recently posed with flags considered anti-Ukraine propaganda. In pictures posted by Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, the…
The world’s first 4K camera built into a centrifuge shows what foods and other substances look like as they are separated at 2,500 times the gravity of Earth.
Maurice Mikkers, a former lab technician and professional photographer, wanted to film foods such as peanut butter, hot sauce, and honey, as they are separated in a centrifuge, in a bid to show the wider world what this scientific process…
Joshua Coogler uses a Laowa 25mm Ultra Macro lens to capture sinister close-up pictures of ants.
The macro portraits, which look like Halloween masks, were taken on Coogler’s Nikon D7500 using a macro rail that moves the camera in tiny increments, taking a photo as it…
Team members with the Mid-Infrared Instrument, a camera aboard the observatory, will celebrate the images at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages MIRI for NASA.
NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will…
A new study using archival observations by the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope found a common trait among distant worlds where the exotic clouds form.
Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top of Jupiter’s atmosphere, for example, is blanketed in yellow-hued clouds made of ammonia and ammonium hydrosulfide. And on worlds…
Each OEM has its own little touches on Android – that’s especially the case with Samsung, which has an app for just about anything, including your touchless payment methods. In the case that you don’t want to use Samsung Wallet, you can deactivate it, uninstall or…
Asus Zenfone 9 leak shows Android’s last small flagship, and it even has a headphone jack [Video]
July 8, 2022
Small Android flagships are a dying breed, but there’s at least one brand still trying. This week, the Asus Zenfone 9 has leaked, showing off the compact smartphone in all its glory.
The Asus Zenfone 8 was one of last year’s only small Android smartphones, coming in with…
Google has shared the winning Doodle for Google 2022 artwork from each state and territory, and now it’s your turn to vote for your favorites to become the national winner.
Every year, Google runs a special “Doodle for Google” contest where K-12 students from around the country are encouraged to submit their own artwork of a potential Google Doodle. The winning artwork will be shown on the…
