Camille Burns, most recently an agent at Diamond Kahn & Woods Literary Agency – which recently rebranded as the Bryony Woods Literary Agency – has launched Solas Literary Agency, a new independent agency representing fiction and non-fiction…
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have carried out a theoretical study showing how a “topological quantum battery” could be efficiently designed. This innovative concept uses…
Lund-based deeptech startup Cytely has raised €3 million in a round led by Ugly Duckling Ventures, with participation from existing investor Icebreaker.vc, to expand access to its smart-microscopy platform. Cytely turns…
Team GB’s Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse upset Paris 2024 champion Carlos Yulo in the men’s floor exercise final Friday (24 October) at the 2025 World Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Olympic bronze medallist Jarman won gold with…
Between 2025 and 2030, the world is expected to build nearly 4,600 gigawatts — or 4.6 terawatts, if you please — of clean power, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.
That’s nearly double the amount built over the previous five-year period, which was in turn more than double the amount built across the five years before that. Put differently, the growth has essentially been exponential.
Solar is the driving force behind this expansion, which is key to transitioning the world away from planet-warming fossil fuels. It accounts for more than three-quarters of the expected increase in renewables between 2025 and 2030 — the result, IEA says, of not only low equipment costs but also solid permitting rules and a broad social acceptance of the tech.
This solar boom will be almost equally split between utility-scale installations and distributed projects, meaning panels atop roofs or shade structures in parking lots, for example. Just over 2 TW of large-scale projects will be built compared to 1.5 TW of the smaller, distributed stuff, IEA predicts. The latter category is increasingly popular both in countries with rising electricity rates and in places with unreliable grids, like Pakistan, where residents are taking refuge in the affordable and stable nature of the tech.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that there has been little improvement in the amount of aid going into Gaza since the…
