The Van Allen radiation belts are massive, doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field. When the Sun blasts Earth with strong solar wind or solar storms, energetic particles are injected into these belts, increasing their overall energy levels. Now, the Van Allen radiation belts are "fully charged," according to space weather observer Stefan Burns. He warns that these belts of energetic particles have been building up due to repeated solar storms over the past few months. "The next solar storm to hit could cause…

1 de enero de 2026: Año Nuevo. Hoy es jueves. Comenzamos la cuenta faltando 364 días para que finalice este año. El 1 de enero (de varios años) es una fecha que ha esta...

Two decades into a successful career manufacturing interiors for the world’s leading auto brands, Tomas, a former senior manager with an Italian multinational company, walked away from the car industry in the autumn of 2025. “I think it's doomed,” the Czech man told RFE/RL, explaining the main reason he walked away from the business. “The industry is doomed.” Tomas has asked that his surname not be used in this story. Europe’s storied car industry is under threat from a flood of high-quality Chinese vehicles…

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies have stayed private for longer than ever before, buoyed by deep pools of capital and sovereign wealth funding. But, as interest rates remain higher, AI infrastructure costs balloon and some of the world’s largest private firms mature into businesses of national, and increasingly geopolitical, importance, the public markets are creeping back into view. This is not an IPO boom, with executives continuing to insist they are in no rush, and in many cases, they are probably…

Geothermal is one of the few renewable energy sectors that President Donald Trump has not tried to quash in favour of fossil fuels in the United States. There is significant promise for the future of geothermal power in the United States, even though most projects are still in the nascent stage of development. Both public and private funding are expected to bolster the sector in the coming years.  According to the European Commission, geothermal energy is a renewable energy source harnessed from the thermal energy stored in rocks and fluids…

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El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, anunció el miércoles que retirará a las tropas de la Guardia Nacional de Chicago, Los Ángeles y Portland, tras una serie de reveses legales al despliegue militar en ciudades del país. El republicano envió soldados a esas tres ciudades para lo que descri...

01-01-25.-El presidente de China, Xi Jinping, en su mensaje a la nación para el fin del año, afirmó este miércoles (31.12.2025) que "la reunificación de nuestra patria, una tendencia de estos tiempos, es imparable", después de dos días de ejercicios militares alrededor de Taiwán, una isla de régimen...

El presidente de Ucrania, Volodimir Zelensky, afirmó este miércoles que el país se encuentra “a un 10%” de alcanzar un “acuerdo de paz” con Rusia, aunque advirtió que las cuestiones más importantes aún están pendientes de resolución. El mandatario ucraniano se mostró en contra de cualquier pacto ...

Zohran Mamdani se convirtió en alcalde de la ciudad de Nueva York poco después de la medianoche del jueves, marcando un momento inédito con una ceremonia de investidura discreta celebrada en lo profundo de Manhattan. El demócrata, que a sus 34 años es el alcalde más joven de la ciudad en gener...

01-01-26.-El Fondo de Lucha contra la Corrupción (FBK) creado por el fallecido opositor ruso Alexei Navalny e ilegalizado por las autoridades rusas, publicó este martes (30.12.2025) información sobre un nuevo palacio atribuido al presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, esta vez en la anexionada península d...

01-01-26.-El Ejército de Estados Unidos anunció este miércoles que ha destruido otras tres lanchas supuestamente cargadas de droga en un ataque que ha dejado al menos tres muertos y se enmarca en su operación militar Lanza del Sur, que busca combatir el narcotráfico en aguas cercanas a Venezuela y C...

01-01-26.-El Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos anunció este miércoles 31 de diciembre nuevas sanciones contra cuatro empresas dedicadas al comercio de petróleo en Venezuela. Así como el bloqueo de cuatro buques tanqueros asociados, al considerar que estas operaciones contribuyen a la evasión...

If 2025 taught us anything, it was that energy markets remain governed by fundamentals, not slogans. The year opened with expectations of policy-driven disruption and geopolitical shocks. It closed with supply, demand, and infrastructure constraints doing what they usually do: overruling expectations. Oil prices fell even as global tensions persisted. Electricity demand grew faster than grids could react. And technologies widely assumed to be on borrowed time proved far more durable than many forecasts suggested. Rather than breakthroughs or collapses,…

Following the Nobel Prize for graphene's discovery in 2010, the gee-whiz nanomaterial has been lauded as a "wonder material" with endless theoretical applications, including graphene super batteries, leading to a "sugar rush" of investor excitement and high valuations of graphene makers such as Applied Graphene Materials Plc. (OTCQB:APGMF) and First Graphene Limited (OTCMKTS:FGPHF). Unfortunately, the actual pace of commercial adoption has been much slower than initially anticipated, causing huge market corrections as expectations realigned with…

South Korea’s move to kill coal will almost certainly have repercussions on two of its largest energy customers, Australia and the United States. A decision on the polluting fossil fuel was made at the COP30 climate conference in Brazil, when South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced plans to retire most of the country’s coal-fired power plants by 2040, and to at least halve its carbon emissions by 2035. Forty of the plants already have confirmed closure dates. South Korea has been criticized for not…

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The energy transition is often sold as a story of ethereal "green" progress, but if you look at the balance sheets of the companies actually building it, the story is written in soot and high-voltage electricity. While the financial press spends its time obsessing over the price of lithium or the latest solid-state battery breakthrough, a much more grounded, and expensive, reality is setting in. We are entering the era of the engineered anode. New data suggests the market for ultra-high-purity (UHP) graphite is on a trajectory to hit $1.43 billion…

Es 31 de diciembre de 2025. Transcurre el último de los 365 días de este año y mañana es Año Nuevo 2026. Hoy es miércoles. Las efemérides se refieren a sucesos, celebraciones o conmemoraciones significativas para un área del conocimiento, la cultura y las artes, la historia o...