New York Times: World leaders gather this week in New York City to discuss progress toward meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Goals for ending world poverty. As the New York Times‘s David Jolly reports, a newly released study from the International Energy Agency argues that improving energy access should be a key component in the Millennium campaign. Of the world’s population of 6.9 billion people, 1.4 billion lack electricity and 2.7 billion burn biomass for cooking.
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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