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NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, as seen here in this image released on Dec. 18, 2025. This image features a selection of colors emitted primarily by stars (blue, green, and white), hot hydrogen…

Problem at water treatment centre left 24,000 Tunbridge Wells homes without drinking water for two weeks A failure at a water treatment centre that left tens of thousands of Kent households without water was foreseen weeks before it happened and…

This year, four NASA astronauts are flying around the Moon and back—and Curious Universe is bringing you along for the ride. The mission is called Artemis II. It’s a key test flight that will set the stage for future missions…

Projection Ruling Calls for Trigonometry and a Deft Touch January 6, 2026 Barbara Clayton and Patricia Hayes draw longitude and latitude lines on what will become maps for use in WWII, using the USC&GS projection ruling machine. 1944. (Image credit:…

‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say Donald Trump, by dramatically seizing Nicolás Maduro and claiming dominion over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, has taken his “drill, baby, drill” mantra global. Achieving the president’s…

Reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight to reduce global heating is not a new idea. It is time to safely experiment The world is warming fast – and our options to avoid catastrophic harm are narrowing. 2024 was the…

The European Union’s antideforestation law, known as EUDR, has officially been delayed for a second year. The amendment was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on Dec. 23, 2025. The EUDR bans the import of commodities, including…

JAKARTA — Best known as the home of the world’s rarest great ape, the mountainous Batang Toru forest landscape on the island of Sumatra has become a test case for whether Indonesia can enforce environmental law in a region where…

Libby Jewett founded the U.S. ocean acidification program and had begun work on offshore wind energy. But she joined the past year’s historic exodus from the agency, the impacts of which are still not clear. By Marianne Lavelle After spending…