NASA and Smithsonian help educators bring real-time air quality data to teens
A Leadership Institute was hosted by the Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's BEST AQI initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from July 27–29, 2026.
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The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water, has lost an area nearly the size of Sicily since the mid-1990s, and new research has identified the causes.
» readScrapping a new petrol car for an electric vehicle is better for the climate, study finds
It has been revealed by new research that scrapping a petrol car, even one that is only a year or two old, in favour of an electric vehicle results in a lower overall climate impact.
» readNASA’s SkyFall Project to Send Three Helicopters to Mars in 2028
A new NASA mission, called SkyFall, will send three helicopters to Mars in December 2028. The project is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and builds on the success of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
» readOpenAI’s AI Math ‘Breakthroughs’ Draw Plagiarism Accusations From Researchers
OpenAI announced that its large language model, Astra, had produced 10 artificial-intelligence-generated math advances during internal testing, each resolving a different long-standing open problem.
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