Kevin Montien

Social communicator and journalist with extensive experience in creating and editing digital content for high-impact media outlets. He stands out for his ability to write news articles, cover international events and his multicultural vision, reinforced by his English language training (B2 level) obtained in Australia.
Floating solar panels under ice with air bubbles preventing freezing damage

An experiment conducted in Canada has just demonstrated something that sounds incredibly strange: solar panels floating on a frozen pond continued to generate electricity thanks to a waterproof foam and underwater bubbles

By Kevin Montien
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July 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Massive offshore converter station being installed in the Yellow Sea for wind power transmission

China’s massive “electric island” has no blades and doesn’t look like a windmill, but it transmits 1.1 gigawatts of offshore wind power from the Yellow Sea to the power grid

By Kevin Montien
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July 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Ancient Iberian settlement ruins in Spain showing archaeological site linked to Iron Age populations

A team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona analyzed 54 newborns who lived between 2,700 and 2,100 years ago and found a surprising clue in their DNA

By Kevin Montien
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July 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Residential home with solar panels installed along the garden fence generating electricity

The latest trend in solar energy in Europe is no longer focused on rooftops, but on garden fences, and promises to turn a simple property line into a mini power plant

By Kevin Montien
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July 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Technician installing solar panels on a residential rooftop as part of a home energy system

Say goodbye to the old idea of generating a lot of solar energy and then forgetting about it, because batteries, time-of-use rates, and self-consumption are starting to play a key role in household savings

By Kevin Montien
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July 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of a circular hyperadobe earth home under construction in a desert landscape

It all started with an old 1972 trailer; now, a family is building a huge earthen house in the middle of the desert, powered by solar energy and rainwater, without relying on the power grid

By Kevin Montien
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July 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Annie Easley working on early NASA computer systems for rocket and energy research

In 1955, she was one of only four African American female employees at the laboratory, and decades later, her work would help pave the way for the Cassini mission to Saturn

By Kevin Montien
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July 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Medical researchers working together in a laboratory studying antibiotic resistance and bacterial response to antimicrobial treatments.

Researchers believe they have identified one of the most dangerous aspects of antibiotic use: a point at which bacteria are more likely to develop resistance

By Kevin Montien
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July 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest showing bare branches and structural supports during decline

It has survived wars, storms, and more than a millennium of history, but Robin Hood’s most famous tree may have finally lost its last battle

By Kevin Montien
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July 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Flooded Amazon rainforest with diverse trees showing dense tropical ecosystem where Inga species coexist.

Scientists sequenced 461 trees from the Amazon and discovered a rather surprising clue: some species may be passing on defensive genes as if they were recipes for fighting pests

By Kevin Montien
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July 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Albert Einstein portrait associated with theories about fundamental laws of the universe and physics

For decades, Einstein had been mulling over an unsettling idea—that the most fundamental laws of the universe should not depend on arbitrary numbers—and now a study published in Physical Review Letters has just given it a rather compelling mathematical boost

By Kevin Montien
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July 8, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Sun rising through Stonehenge stones during summer solstice alignment in England

Before Stonehenge became the great symbol of the solstice, it is possible that two simple wooden posts located in Bulford were already marking the summer sunrise some 5,000 years ago

By Kevin Montien
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July 8, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Local community members in eastern Congo leading forest conservation efforts in Bamasobha concession

A community that was driven from its forest lands in the 1970s now protects 71,700 acres in the Congo and has managed to reduce deforestation by 87% in just one year

By Kevin Montien
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July 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Close-up of corroded bridge steel with an inspector using a digital device to assess structural damage.

The United States has 624,167 bridges, of which more than 220,000 are in need of repair, but a new generation of quantum sensors could detect hidden damage before it becomes visible from the road

By Kevin Montien
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July 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Blue tractor photographed by Novgorod State University, linked to a project that proposes injecting cooled exhaust gases into soil.

A Russian university has just unveiled a tractor attachment that injects cooled exhaust gases directly into the soil—a highly unusual idea that promises to benefit crops but requires extensive testing under real-world conditions

By Kevin Montien
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July 3, 2026 at 12:29 PM
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in orbit as engineers prepare a robotic mission to capture and raise the aging space telescope.

NASA is preparing an extremely unusual rescue mission to save the Swift telescope, an observatory launched in 2004 that has been recording cosmic explosions and was never meant to be recovered

By Kevin Montien
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July 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The Spanish research vessel Odón de Buen sails during the MORIA 2 expedition to study Mediterranean Outflow Water and its influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

It all began with an extremely salty current flowing every day from the Mediterranean; now, a ship is traversing the ocean to investigate the Atlantic’s great climate engine 

By Kevin Montien
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July 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Researchers use MIT's machine-learning method to analyze atomic motifs in metal alloys, improving materials discovery for advanced engineering applications.

MIT’s new method promises to speed up the search for alloys for rockets, chips, and clean energy by analyzing invisible “neighborhoods” between atoms

By Kevin Montien
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July 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Anopheles mosquito feeding on human skin, the malaria-carrying insect targeted in sterile male release research.

Science discovers the “point of no return” for mosquitoes: the mathematical trick that could forever change the fight against malaria

By Kevin Montien
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July 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
satellite-storm-system-flash-flood-warning-ai

NASA is developing and testing an artificial intelligence system that identifies 93% of the signs of a flash flood and could provide crucial time to respond

By Kevin Montien
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July 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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