New York Times: Yesterday the Toronto District School Board announced a plan to install solar panels on its schools as a way of paying for much-needed repairs to the schools’ roofs. Facing a $3 billion backlog in roofing repairs, the board plans to install the panels on about 450 of its 558 schools and sell electricity to Ontario’s government-owned utility. Ontario, which promotes the development of alternative energy by paying a substantial premium for solar-generated electricity, came up with the idea and gave the school board a grant to develop it.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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