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Overnight News Digest May 31st Science Saturday [1]

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Date: 2025-05-31

I just lost my whole post for tonight!

x To put it mildly — (@vallirose.bsky.social) 2025-05-31T03:53:48.169Z

Scientists make revolutionary breakthrough to address issues with essential component of US power grid: 'This halts the current'

The nation's complex and increasingly strained power grid is full of circuit breakers that protect the system from overloads and other faults. The problem is that they use a gas called sulfur hexafluoride that has a planet-warming potential almost 25,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, according to IEEE Spectrum. The gas, also called SF6, "is a fantastic insulator, but it's very bad for the environment — probably the worst greenhouse gas you can think of," Johan Enslin, a program director at U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, said in the story. Nearly all of the hundreds of thousands of breakers used around the world include the gas. Technicians working with SF6 even need respirators and special clothing. The European Union and California are phasing out the substance, among other fumes, Spectrum added.

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, JeremyBloom, and doomandgloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man (RIP), wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos since 2007, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.

'Cosmic miracle!' James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) excels at a lot of things, but there are two things it does better than any other scientific instrument in human history: spotting early galaxies and breaking its own records!

Now, the $10 billion NASA space telescope has done both things again, detecting a galaxy that existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, a feat that the team behind this research has dubbed a "cosmic miracle."

Currently, as the earliest and most distant galaxy ever detected, this "the mother of all early galaxies," this new JWST discovery has been fittingly designated "MoM z14."

Major city braces for shocking heat wave as meteorologist warns of summer-like surge: 'It's going to feel like mid-July'

It was only the middle of May, but Chicago was already feeling like July. A Windy City meteorologist warned it would be the most sweltering day of the season so far. The mercury soared to a steamy 94 degrees at O'Hare Airport on May 15, setting a new record high for the date in Chicago. A WGN-TV veteran meteorologist saw it coming. "It's going to feel like mid-July instead of mid-May," meteorologist Bill Snyder predicted, per Block Club Chicago. The heat that day broke the previous record set 63 years ago by three degrees. Could this be an omen for a sizzling summer in Chicago? Per NOAA, last summer was the city's fourth warmest on record. The summer of 2024 was preceded by Chicago's seventh-warmest spring. The first two months of spring in Chicago this year ranked as the 25th-warmest March-through-April period on record. Meanwhile, the first three weeks of May have been slightly cooler than average, around one degree below normal.

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