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In the 1930s a handful of cane toads were released on Australian sugar farms to eat a beetle they turned out to be unable to reach, and…
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A low rail bridge in Melbourne had been getting hit by trucks for years, so authorities installed flashing height warnings and heavy…
Even after installing warnings, protective beams, and repeated repairs, trucks keep hitting a Melbourne rail bridge, suggesting driver negligence may not be the real problem.
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A second-century Roman teacher's razor-sharp trade-off between comfort and consequence still cuts through modern moral compromise.
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Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
A $30 million rescue mission launched on 3 July to grab NASA’s ageing Swift telescope and lift it into a safer orbit
Saturn's rings look ancient, but data from the Cassini spacecraft suggests they are surprisingly young, likely no more than a few hundred…
Pluto’s atmosphere has probably persisted in some form for millions of years, but observations suggest its pressure fell 16% between…
A Soviet probe survived the journey to Venus and began testing the surface of another world
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Jane Goodall arrived at Gombe in 1960 at age 26 with a notebook and a pair of binoculars, and the watch she started has now followed the…
Astronomers can identify water vapour, carbon dioxide and even oxygen across light-years—but nitrogen, despite filling 78 per cent of…
Across Olympus Mons and three other giant Martian volcanoes, seasonal morning frost only about 0.01 millimetres thick disappears within…
Perseverance reached Mars for about $2.7 billion, while a crewed expedition could cost hundreds of billions because humans require years of…
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
Jane Goodall arrived at Gombe in 1960 at age 26 with a notebook and a pair of binoculars, and the watch she started has now followed the…
Nearly a mile beneath South Dakota, the 10-tonne LUX-ZEPLIN detector recorded a single high-energy xenon recoil for which researchers found…
A newly found star circles the Milky Way's central black hole every 8.7 years and passes it at about 25,000 kilometres a second, more than…
A black monkey with a pinkish-orange patch around its mouth was photographed in a Congo forest canopy in 2008, detected 114 times between…
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Space Daily is an independent publication covering three connected beats: the space industry, the science behind it, and the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Founded in Tokyo in 1995, we’ve built a thirty-year archive of rigorous reporting on the people, missions, and ideas pushing humanity outward — and on the human dynamics shaped by frontier life. The same ambitions, pressures, and patterns of mind that drive humanity to the stars also shape how we live on Earth. We employ modern AI technologies to support our editorial workflows; every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed.
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