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December 04, 2025
EXO WORLDS
Gels may have given early Earth chemistry a place to organize into life



Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
An international team from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany has proposed that life on Earth may have emerged within sticky, surface-bound gels that formed before the first cells. The researchers argue that these prebiotic gels, attached to mineral or other surfaces, could have provided both structure and chemical environments that helped early chemistry progress toward biology. The team describes a prebiotic gel-first framework in which semi-solid gel matrices, resembling modern microbial biof ... read more

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CLIMATE SCIENCE
Global coastal settlements shift inland as climate risks rise
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
A global analysis of satellite nightlight data shows that more than half of the world's coastal settlements have moved inland over the past three decades as exposure to climate-related coastal hazar ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Australia overhauls decades-old environmental laws
Sydney (AFP) Nov 27, 2025
Large carbon-emitting projects in Australia will be required to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions as well as pollution reduction goals under new legislation overhauling decades-old environmental laws. ... more
TECH SPACE
Life, Culture and AI: Why 'plagiarism' Is Our Default Operating System
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
As AI models are accused of stealing the world's creativity, a deeper view emerges: life, culture - and now machines - all run on ceaseless pattern-copying, much like an extreme, accelerated form of reading. The real novelty is that humans invented the idea of "Plagiarism" with a capital P. ... more
UAV NEWS
Elephants adapt to drones for conservation in Kenya
London, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
Researchers from Save the Elephants and the University of Oxford report that African elephants can learn to ignore drones flown under controlled conditions, opening a new way to observe their behavi ... more
TECH SPACE
Exploring Easter Island Quarry Now Possible with Detailed 3D Model
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
A team of researchers has produced a high-resolution 3D model of Rano Raraku, the primary quarry on Easter Island, making the ancient site and its nearly 1,000 moai statues accessible for remote stu ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Farms show potential as large-scale tool for climate mitigation in QUT led research
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
A recent international study led by Queensland University of Technology presents a quantitative framework for evaluating how plant agriculture and synthetic biology might help mitigate climate chang ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Gilat wins 10 million dollar order for transportable direct downlink earth observation system
London, UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has secured an order of about 10 million dollars for a customized Earth observation direct downlink solution to be delivered over the next 12 months. The contract was a ... more
TECH SPACE
Greece deploys first national ICEYE radar satellites for disaster monitoring
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
Two new ICEYE radar satellites have entered service under Greece's National Small Satellite Programme, expanding the country's capacity to track floods, wildfires, landslides and other hazards as we ... more

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EARTH OBSERVATION
Italian Earth observation fleet gains eight new IRIDE satellites
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
Italy's IRIDE Earth observation programme has expanded with the launch of eight Eaglet II satellites, adding a second constellation to the growing national fleet. The spacecraft rode into orbit on a ... more
EARLY EARTH
Pterosaur brains evolved pathways to flight different from birds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
New research reveals that pterosaurs developed their neurological capabilities for flight independently from birds. An international team studied the fossilized brain structures of ancient flying re ... more
ICE WORLD
Sentinel 1D radar satellite returns first images from Antarctic to Europe
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has delivered its first high-resolution radar images, covering glaciers in Antarctica, the southern tip of South America and the German city of Bremen, which wer ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Sentinel-5 debuts images of atmospheric gases
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first results, including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Spire and Planet expand satellite fleets on Transporter 15 mission
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
Spire Global Inc and Planet Labs PBC have each reported new satellite deployments on SpaceXs Transporter 15 rideshare flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, expanding commercial cons ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Spire soil data to support conflict early warning in Ethiopias Somali Region
London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
Spire Global has been selected by GIST Research to supply satellite-derived Soil Moisture Insights for a project that links climate conditions to pastoralist movements and conflict risks in Ethiopia ... more
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WATER WORLD
UK Scout climate mission HydroGNSS begins water cycle mapping from orbit
London, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
The UK has placed the twin HydroGNSS satellites into orbit to measure how water moves through the Earth system using signals from existing navigation satellites. The mission was launched on 28 Novem ... more
ICE WORLD
Where Antarctic Ice Melt Will Raise Seas the Most
Providence RI (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. B ... more
ICE WORLD
Where Antarctica's ice melt will have the biggest impact on sea levels
Providence RI (SPX) Nov 27, 2025
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. B ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Deadly floods sweep Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia as combined toll tops 300
Pidie, Indonesia, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 29, 2025
The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in Southeast Asia climbed past 400 on Saturday as clean-up and search-and-rescue operations got underway in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. ... more
EXO WORLDS
The bacteria that wont wake up found in spacecraft cleanrooms
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
Researchers have characterized a bacterium from spacecraft assembly cleanrooms that can enter an extreme dormant state, allowing it to persist where contamination controls are designed to remove nea ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Auroral radio signal offers new insight into intense magnetic storms
Southampton, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
A University of Southampton team has identified a distinct low frequency radio signature that appears when small-scale auroral structures known as auroral beads emerge, providing a new clue to how i ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
EarthCARE mission tightens cloud and aerosol impacts in next-generation climate models
Paris (ESA) Dec 04, 2025
True to its promise, the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite is now being used to directly quantify how clouds and airborne particles reshape the balance between incoming sunlight and outgoi ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Aechelon links Vantor 3D terrain with Orbion SkyBeam to boost ICEYE SAR AI
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
Aechelon Technology has completed a proof-of-concept integration of Vantor's 3D Operational Terrain into its Project Orbion SkyBeam AI exploitation system, using ICEYE's space-based synthetic apertu ... more
FARM NEWS
Kelp cost modeling tool for Maine seaweed farms reveals major savings options
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
A new economic analysis tool for kelp farming, created by Kelson Marine and the University of Maine, is helping operators assess site selection, weather effects, crop size, and operational factors a ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Santorini earthquake swarm in 2025 linked to deep magma intrusions under Aegean Sea
London, UK (SPX) Nov 21, 2025
An international team, including a University College London researcher, identified magma intrusion as the source of a major seismic event beneath the Greek island of Santorini early in 2025. Over 2 ... more
WATER WORLD
Iran halts power generation at key dam over drought
Tehran (AFP) Nov 29, 2025
Iranian authorities on Saturday stopped electricity production at one of the country's biggest dams due to a marked decrease in the reservoir's water levels, state media reported. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Kimchi consumption shown to regulate immune response in new clinical study
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
A clinical investigation led by the World Institute of Kimchi has revealed that regular intake of kimchi influences human immune cells by suppressing excessive immune responses while amplifying defe ... more
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WOOD PILE
Restoration potential on urban fringes identified in Brazil
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo, working within the BIOTA Synthesis center of FAPESP, have mapped roughly 410,000 hectares on Sao Paulo's urban fringe as suitable for forest restoration ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Mountain climate changes outpace predictions as review highlights billions at risk
London, UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2025
A global review of mountain regions over the last four decades finds accelerated shifts in temperature, rainfall, and snowfall. Researchers report that over one billion people rely on these regions ... more
WATER WORLD
Ocean regions show simultaneous changes in temperature salinity oxygen and acidity
Tokyo Japan (SPX) Nov 26 2025
An international team has documented significant compound changes across much of the global ocean's upper one thousand meters. The study in Nature Climate Change developed a framework to identify lo ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2025
While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmos ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Wild cat species in Guatemala adapt hunting heights to avoid food competition
Corvallis OR (SPX) Nov 25, 2025
A new study reveals that four wild cat species living in the same rainforest habitat in Guatemala reduce competition for food by hunting in different vertical zones, some in trees and others on the ... more
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