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July 2026
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Space & Missions
Voyager 1 is still crossing interstellar space with six computers holding about 68…
Space & Missions
The lines etched into Voyager’s Golden Record cover point towards 14 pulsars whose…
Space & Missions
In 1980, Voyager 1 flew close enough to Titan to reveal its thick nitrogen…
Science & Engineering
Geologists have taught for decades that rivers needed plants to form their…
Earth & Life
When elephants play, they rapidly copy one another’s trunk and head movements
Earth & Life
Palaeontologists were preparing to leave the Egyptian desert when they noticed…
Space & Missions
Enceladus, a Saturn moon just 500 kilometres wide, fires geysers of water thousands…
Universe
Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has…
Space & Missions
In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet's tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains…
Science & Engineering
An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and…
Universe
A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky…
Science & Engineering
Flint tools, scorched soil and two pieces of spark-producing pyrite suggest humans…
Science & Engineering
In 1866 a single undersea cable finally held across the Atlantic, and a message…
Space & Missions
Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the…
Earth & Life