Solar's 600-Terawatt-Hour Year Makes the Grid the Next Big Trade
Solar generation is set for another record increase, but panels alone cannot solve evening peaks or connection delays. The next value pool is flexibility and networks.
Aug 2, 2026

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Solar generation is set for another record increase, but panels alone cannot solve evening peaks or connection delays. The next value pool is flexibility and networks.
Aug 2, 2026

Scatec's proposed two-year investment program spans batteries, desalination, wind, solar and green data centers, revealing how Egypt wants clean power to support industry.
Aug 3, 2026

Analysis of iron meteorites found their parent bodies were built almost entirely from heat-forged chondrules rather than water-rich dust, pushing selective planet-building back to the Solar System's first million years.
Sep 29, 2026

Solar panels integrated into the Grand Egyptian Museum show how cultural landmarks can cut operating emissions without compromising architecture or visitor experience.
Aug 3, 2026

Solar, nuclear, storage, efficiency and hydrogen are being combined to support growth while building a more resilient and lower-carbon energy system.
Jul 28, 2026

Solar systems are increasingly keeping hospitals, schools, water networks and street lighting operating where centralized energy supply is expensive or unreliable.
Aug 3, 2026

Swift saw over 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and fed some 7,000 papers; drag from a more active Sun pulled it down to 275 km, where its telescopes could no longer hold steady, and NASA stopped science.
Oct 25, 2026

A $265 million World Bank package for the 300-megawatt Ifahsa pumped-storage project could unlock more solar and wind while making Morocco's grid more dependable.
Aug 3, 2026

Solar power, smarter grids, water systems and new fuels can help the Kingdom build exportable expertise while strengthening energy resilience at home.
Jul 28, 2026

A 5.8 percent drop took silver to $49.34 an ounce by mid-morning in New York, nearly twice gold's fall, as industrial demand worries and thin positioning turned a rate scare into a rout.
Oct 30, 2026

Al Sa'fat caps glazing at a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.25 and a U-value of 2.0. Those two figures quietly rule out the all-glass tower that defined the region's skyline, and they are why shading is coming back.
Aug 19, 2026

A team in Ottawa and Erlangen put a window sized lens in the sun, funnelled the light down a glass cone into a fibre the width of a hair, and got entangled photons at ninety four per cent fidelity. The Sun is not supposed to be able to do this.
Aug 25, 2026

The first orbital data centre nodes launched in January and multiple operators ran production workloads by February. The physics is genuinely favourable. The economics depend entirely on launch costs.
Aug 15, 2026

Chang'e 7 targets the one part of the Moon where ice may have sat undisturbed for billions of years, in craters the sun has never reached. The hopper is the part nobody has tried before.
Aug 21, 2026

A survey that revisits one patch of sky every two months saw a new light appear in a galaxy about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, hotter and brighter than local examples.
Oct 18, 2026

Columbia's Luca Comisso and a Chilean colleague borrow from plasma physics to show gravity's field structures may snap and rejoin, moving energy into matter. It is theory, with tests still to come.
Oct 28, 2026

A dark-energy survey telescope has picked up a long-period comet 1.3 billion km away, and ESA says the discovery was a happy accident rather than part of the mission plan.
Oct 19, 2026

Two Michigan State astronomers added up every measured gas and dust loss and estimate the nucleus shed from under two metres to more than ten. The layers may have been cooked or stripped.
Oct 21, 2026

A reanalysis of nearly a thousand ice grain spectra from Saturn's icy moon found that freezing droplets separate salts into distinct pockets, a sorting process that could make it far easier for a future probe to detect organic chemistry from its hidden ocean.
Oct 1, 2026

Air conditioning is roughly half of peak electricity demand across the region, and nearly every building has it. Which means almost everything that reduces a household bill here is about heat getting in, not about appliances.
Aug 21, 2026

The clearest picture yet of Betelgeuse B was taken with the Very Large Telescope. The caveat almost all the coverage dropped is the astronomer's own: he cannot be sure until he sees it again on the other side of the star, a year from now.
Aug 28, 2026

The national railway can connect industries, reduce road pressure and make the seven emirates feel closer in both economic and everyday terms.
Jul 28, 2026

Silver set a record just under $122 an ounce in late January, then lost close to half of it. The London squeeze behind the spike has eased rather than ended, and the metal is still up almost 74 per cent on the year.
Aug 18, 2026

Re-reading a quake NASA's InSight lander recorded in 2021, researchers place it in an ancient fault under Valles Marineris and say the planet's crust still breaks along old scars.
Oct 22, 2026

Astronomers used a new method on the hot Jupiter WASP-17b to read the shape of its air around the rim, finding a bigger, hotter evening limb that matches what weather models predicted.
Oct 18, 2026

Dragon Freedom touched down in the Pacific at 8:34 a.m. Pacific time on 8 October with four crew members, ending a flight that included 235 days on the International Space Station.
Oct 9, 2026

The 16th edition counts 35,803 monitored populations across 5,790 species, finds freshwater life hit hardest, and says food and finance must now follow energy past a tipping point.
Oct 8, 2026

Most hot weather dressing advice is written for a European summer and fails here. The variables that matter in Gulf heat are fit, weave and how a fabric handles sweat, and they do not line up with the usual natural versus synthetic argument.
Aug 21, 2026

Thick walls, small openings, shaded courtyards and wind towers were not decorative. They were a cooling system, and a glass tower in the desert is a decision to pay for that work with electricity instead.
Aug 7, 2026

Traditional Arab screens get praised in general terms and tested rarely. Field studies in hot climates put a figure on what they do, and the figure is real, useful, and smaller than the romantic version of the story suggests.
Aug 22, 2026

One operator has raised around eleven billion dollars since late 2023 and another is weighing a hundred-billion-dollar listing. The scarce resource stopped being chips some time ago.
Aug 15, 2026

After every major earthquake, a prediction resurfaces that appears to have called it. Here is how that trick works, why seismologists say prediction is not currently possible, and what forecasting can actually do.
Aug 12, 2026

A delayed mortality count reveals the June heatwave’s true scale, showing why the deadliest climate disaster can pass quietly behind ordinary causes of death.
Jul 23, 2026

Beyond construction equipment, Al Wisam’s automation division brings drives, control panels, PLCs, SCADA and technical services into one industrial offer.
Mar 19, 2026

Every major bank cut its 2026 number after the Fed turned hawkish, yet most still see $5,000 gold in 2027. A dated, attributed tour of the published targets, the bull case and the bear case.
Oct 30, 2026
