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Tesla’s next big clean energy source is rising in the Arizona desert

Tesla’s next big clean energy source is rising in the Arizona desert

Published by Miika Tikkanen

A 450-megawatt (MW) solar farm with a massive battery system is now under construction in Arizona – and Tesla has already lined up about 90% of its expected electricity output. ContourGlobal held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 6 for Project Sterling, around 20 miles north of Lake Havasu City in Mohave County. The project will cover more than 2,000 acres in the Mojave Desert, and it’s expected to come online in 2028. Sterling will pair more than 760,000 solar panels with over 300 battery storage containers. Its solar panels will have a combined capacity of 509 MW DC, with 450 MW of AC capacity after conversion for the grid. The batteries will deliver up to 360 MW and store around 1.4 gigawatt-hours of electricity – enough to discharge at full power for about four hours. ContourGlobal says the solar and storage will enable Sterling to deliver clean electricity for up to 16 hours a day. The system uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries with liquid cooling and integrated fire protection. Once it’s online, Sterling is …

Rising temperatures increase snow droughts across Türkiye

Rising temperatures increase snow droughts across Türkiye

Published by Sam Flores

Rising temperatures are making Türkiye’s snow-dependent water resources increasingly vulnerable, with earlier snowmelt and more severe warm-dry snow drought threatening water availability, according to a two-year study by Istanbul Technical University (ITU). The study, which examined snow-dependent basins across Türkiye between 1990 and 2024, found that a shift occurred after 2007 from precipitation-driven snow drought to a period in which temperature became a more influential factor. Researchers also found that warm and warm-dry snow droughts have become more widespread, with the latter emerging as the most severe type across the basins studied. The study was led by Dr. Harun Aslan under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Tolga Görüm and Associate Professor Abdullah Akbaş of ITU, with contributions from Assistant Professor Seçkin Fidan of Ankara University. Researchers analyzed 15 of Türkiye’s 25 major basins, including the Çoruh, Eastern Black Sea, Aras, Yeşilırmak, Lake Van, Euphrates-Tigris, Seyhan, Kızılırmak, Ceyhan, Sakarya, Eastern Mediterranean, Konya and Susurluk basins. The study classified snow drought into three types: dry snow drought caused by reduced precipitation, warm snow drought caused by higher …

CIA and Vatican visits converge in Moscow amid rising tensions over Ukraine

CIA and Vatican visits converge in Moscow amid rising tensions over Ukraine

Published by Sam Flores

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The CIA director made an unannounced visit to Moscow on Tuesday (Aug. 25) as the Vatican’s foreign minister led a five-day mission to the Russian capital, in disparate attempts to influence an end to the war in Ukraine. Multiple reports said CIA Director John Ratcliffe privately delivered a warning to the Kremlin to avoid an escalation to the conflict, although accounts differed over the principal purpose of his visit. Meanwhile, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, who leads the Vatican’s diplomacy with states, publicly offered Russian officials dialogue and humanitarian assistance. “In a simplistic way, it looked like a good cop, bad cop operation,” said Victor Gaetan, author of “God’s Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy and America’s Armageddon.” Gallagher’s visit marked an important moment for Vatican diplomacy under Pope Leo XIV, who has expressed more conspicuous sympathy for Ukraine than his predecessor, Pope Francis, while preserving the Holy See’s traditional insistence on dialogue with both sides. And the simultaneous presence of Ratcliffe raised questions about whether the first U.S. pope’s peace diplomacy might intersect …

How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Roughly 160 people are dead and hundreds more—including dozens of international tourists—are missing after flash floods hit a region on the mountainous border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. Devastating footage posted to social media shows people fleeing a wall of water that washed away buildings and vehicles. Initial analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the Nepalese government indicate that the flooding was likely triggered by a landslide caused after a piece of a glacier fell hundreds of feet. As the region warms, its ice is becoming increasingly unstable, raising the risk of catastrophic flooding. “The glaciers over there are definitely in retreat,” says Joseph Shea, an associate professor of geography at the University of Northern British Columbia. “There’s a lot of glacier mass up there, but we’re seeing thinning, we’re seeing retreating.” Since 2000, the world’s glaciers have lost 5 percent of their ice, with much more drastic impacts in certain regions. Nepal’s glaciers lost nearly a quarter of their area between 1970 and 2010. More than 160 smaller glaciers in the country, …

Rising US life expectancy isn’t what it seems

Rising US life expectancy isn’t what it seems

Published by Sam Flores

There’s some good news for American lifespans: In July, preliminary CDC data suggested that life expectancy in the U.S. is on track to reach a record high while death rates hit a historic low.  According to the report, there were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in 2025 — the lowest rate recorded since mortality rate tracking began. The news comes at a time when the buzzword “longevity” has become synonymous with wellness, and as the U.S. centenarian population is expected to explode over the next few decades. At first glance, this news might sound encouraging after years of headlines highlighting the reverse trend, that life expectancy was falling. But public health experts who have been studying mortality rates over the last couple of decades aren’t exactly optimistic this trend reflects any positive health advancements in American public health — or that these numbers can be sustained. “This is welcome news, but should be taken with a grain of salt,” Steven Woolf, a physician and a professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, …

Tesla FSD v14 Lite tied to rising HW3 computer failures, owners report

Tesla FSD v14 Lite tied to rising HW3 computer failures, owners report

Published by Miika Tikkanen

A growing number of Tesla owners running the new Full Self-Driving v14 “Lite” build on Hardware 3 (HW3) vehicles are reporting Autopilot computer overheating alerts — and, in some cases, outright computer failures. The reports have stacked up in the two weeks since Tesla pushed v14 Lite to wide release, and four owners have contacted Electrek directly about the same problem. What FSD v14 Lite is doing to older hardware Tesla started rolling out FSD v14 Lite to HW3 cars in late June and pushed it to wide release with software version 2026.20.6.11 (FSD v14.3.6) on July 21. The build is a distilled version of the HW4 v14 model, squeezed down to run on the memory-constrained AI3 computer. That computer is the constraint: HW3 ships with 8GB of RAM and roughly one-eighth of HW4’s memory bandwidth, which is why Tesla was stuck running v12.6 on these cars for more than a year before the Lite build. Now that a heavier v14-derived model is running on that hardware, owners are reporting that the Autopilot computer is …

Are rates of ADHD really rising?

Are rates of ADHD really rising?

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the last few years, there has been intense media and political focus on the rising numbers of people seeking support and diagnostic services for ADHD. This has been accompanied by a greater number of prescriptions for ADHD medications being issued. Some people now suggest that ADHD is being over-diagnosed, that psychiatrists are overusing diagnostic labels, and that society is over-medicalizing healthy variation. So, has the rate of ADHD really risen? Are we now over-diagnosing ADHD? What does the evidence show? The global prevalence of ADHD is estimated at around 5% for children and 3% for adults1. In most countries, there is good evidence that the administrative prevalence of ADHD (those who receive a diagnosis in services) is lower than the population prevalence (the true rate of ADHD in the population). Certainly, in the UK, there is robust evidence of under-diagnosis and under-treatment of ADHD1,2. Most never access services especially those from disadvantaged or minority groups with pronounced regional differences2. However, what is clear is that demand for ADHD services has risen. What might explain …

LA’s Murmurs Gallery, Known for Its Eye for Rising Talent, to Close

LA’s Murmurs Gallery, Known for Its Eye for Rising Talent, to Close

Published by Jenni Sidey

Murmurs, a gallery located in Downtown Los Angeles that was known for its eye for spotting rising talent, announced this week that it will close after seven years in business. Its final exhibition was a solo for Rodrigo Ramírez Rodríguez, which ended on June 27. In an Instagram post, cofounders Allison Littrell and Morgan Elder and director Gabrielle Datau wrote that the “bittersweet news” came after “a long period of reflection.” They cited the “intense economic squeeze” that the art world is currently facing. Source link

The Boys’ spin-off series Vought Rising gets first look teaser trailer

The Boys’ spin-off series Vought Rising gets first look teaser trailer

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Boys may be over, but the world is only expanding, with the team releasing a teaser trailer for the upcoming prequel, Vought Rising, as well as first-look pics of new Supes. The upcoming spin-off has been confirmed to be arriving on Prime Video in 2027 and will take viewers back to the 1950s, 70 years before the events of the popular original satirical superhero show. The series is the fourth series within the Vought-centric universe, joining: The Boys, which ended this week; Gen V (which was cancelled after two seasons) and animation The Boys: Diabolical. Original series cast members Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash are both back for the series, with their complicated relationship becoming central to the storyline. In the 50s, Soldier Boy (Ackles) is still enjoying his early exploits, while fascist Clara Vought (Cash) is yet to be fully known as Stormfront. Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy in Vought Rising. Prime Video The series will explore the “twisted origins” of Vought International – though any further details have been kept tightly under wraps …