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esa will livestream the aug 12 total solar eclipse from a spanish mountaintop totality runs just 81 seconds On Aug. 12, 2026, the strip of ground where the Moon covers the Sun completely barely grazes Europe. Greenland, Iceland, a sliver of northeastern Portugal, and then Spain — that's the list. The rest of the continent is left with a partial eclipse, and that is a wholly different thing to witness.

ESA will livestream the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse from a Spanish mountaintop — totality runs just 81 seconds

voyager 2 gets a power reprieve nasas big bang buys the probe another year Since the Nixon years, Voyager 2 has shed roughly 4 watts of usable power annually — and that slow bleed was on track to claim yet another one of its science instruments before 2026 ended.

Voyager 2 Gets a Power Reprieve: NASA’s “Big Bang” Buys the Probe Another Year

no needle required oral glp 1 pill trims up to 12 of body weight in 36 weeks A pill you can swallow with breakfast — or without it — that takes twelve percent of your body weight off over 36 weeks. That is the number coming out of a randomized phase II trial of aleniglipron published in Nature Medicine, and the fact that it is a pill matters every bit as much as the percentage.

No needle required: oral GLP-1 pill trims up to 12% of body weight in 36 weeks

washu fuel cell breakthrough targets data centers that keep draining the grid Start with 9%, not with catalyst chemistry. That is the share of annual U.S. electricity generation the Electric Power Research Institute estimates data centers could be consuming by 2030, against 4% of total electricity demand in 2023. Everything else here is an answer to that gap.

WashU fuel cell breakthrough targets data centers that keep draining the grid

a hair thin gold crystal could lift quantum tech out of the deep freeze Almost every quantum material physicists have turned up so far arrives with a caveat roughly the size of a refrigerator: it performs, but only within a hair of absolute zero.

A hair-thin gold crystal could lift quantum tech out of the deep freeze