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A new mission will attempt to chart a mysterious ring-shaped current surrounding the Earth, so that researchers can better protect satellites and power infrastructure from charged particles in space.The NASA mission, called STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution), will try to hunt down more details about this “ring current” that traps charged particles in a doughnut shape around our planet. The payload also aims to answer a big question: do these particles come from the sun, or from Earth?Wherever they came from, “these particles have important space weather impacts,” Alex Glocer, STORIE’s principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space…

Neighborhood: Thonglor districtPrice range: $$Dish to order: Fermented tea leaf salad, a Burmese stapleWith a restaurant scene as varied and multi-cultural as Bangkok’s, you’d be missing out if you only stick to local grub. The Yangon-born Rangoon Tea House, which opened a Bangkok offshoot in 2024, is one of those spots proving why: in its buzzy Thonglor-district dining room, furnished with rattan chairs and pink neon lights, it serves up small-plate, hyper-creative takes on Burmese cuisine, itself an amalgamation of Indian, Chinese and Southeast Asian influences. The fermented tea leaf salad, a Burmese staple, is the obvious order, but don’t…

Amazon’s head of devices and services, Panos Panay, says that the company is “not necessarily” planning to release a smartphone, but has stopped short of denying it outright. It was previously reported that Amazon is developing an Alexa-enabled AI phone codenamed “Transformer,” more than 10 years after it scrapped its ill-fated Fire Phone.Speaking to the Financial Times, Panay was asked directly if the company was planning another smartphone. “It’s just not the goal,” he replied. “I know there’s a lot of rumors out there.”“I think your black and white question is, are you going after a phone? A lot of…

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to pay the highest-ever dividend to the government, providing the Centre with a fiscal cushion to address challenges arising from the ongoing Middle East crisis, sources said. Last year the RBI made a record dividend payout of Rs 2.69 lakh crore to the central government for 2024-25, 27 per cent higher than Rs 2.11 lakh crore transferred in the previous year.RBI is likely to decide about dividend quantum in its board meeting expected to be held during this month, sources said. The transferable surplus for any financial year is arrived…

The Bihar government on Wednesday approved amendments to its Electric Vehicle policy with the aim of ensuring that at least 30 per cent of all new vehicles sold in the state by 2030 are EVs.The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary.The move is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, curbing vehicular pollution and improving air quality across the state, officials said.”The Bihar government aims to ensure that by 2030, at least 30 per cent of all new vehicles sold in the state are electric vehicles,” the proposal approved by the cabinet stated.The policy…

Traders are interpreting the late addition of Nvidia’s CEO to the Air Force One passenger list as a signal that good news about export licenses may be in the offing Source link

Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Sarah Mattalian is a 2025 Reporting Fellow. The heavy downpours that bring roughly 90 inches of rainfall to Las Marías, Puerto Rico, each year subside in the first few weeks of December, the start of the dry season. Even as the rainfall decreases, rain still comes on a near-daily basis, often in short bursts that cause mist to rise from the tropical mountainside forests. The rain makes it easy for rainbows to form above the hills where the municipality is nestled.  But the precipitation causes more than iridescence in the…

Jaguar’s next-generation luxury electric grand tourer has a name. The concept was named Type 00, and the production version will just turn the counter up by one. The company says the name denotes the model’s status as the first Jaguar of a new era. Jaguar finally has a name for the production version of its all-new, supposedly game-changing electric four-door grand tourer. And while the British marque only describes its next-generation EVs in superlatives, the name chosen for the road-going version people will actually be able to buy is a little underwhelming. It’s called the Jaguar Type 01. That’s one…

Chevy resurrected Spark EUV nameplate with the launch of the all-new, affordable Chevy Spark EUV for 2026, with the hopes that its new, 220-mile range EV would be a “game changer” that helps accelerate the company’s EV transition in developing markets – and it’s now officially the best selling electric SUV in Brazil! Like its Baojun-badged siblings in China, the 2026 Chevrolet Spark EUV is powered by a single 75 kW (101 hp), 180 Nm (130 lb-ft) motor driving the front wheels. Power comes from the Baojun’s 42 kWh LFP battery that, paired with regenerative braking, is good for up…

For decades, scientists believed they understood one of the body’s key fat-burning proteins. Known as hormone-sensitive lipase, or HSL, the enzyme was thought to work mainly as the body’s emergency fuel switch, helping release stored fat when energy runs low. But researchers uncovered something unexpected. HSL was not just working on the surface of fat droplets inside fat cells. It was also operating deep inside the nucleus of those cells, where DNA is stored and important genetic activity is controlled. The discovery revealed an entirely different side to a protein scientists had studied since the 1960s. The findings, published in…