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July 2026
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Science & Engineering
Six miles below the Pacific, with no sunlight and no photosynthesis, a Chinese…
Human Factors
Tetris was invented in 1984 by Soviet researcher Alexey Pajitnov on a computer that…
Science & Engineering
A blind person who loses their sight before the age of five may dream mostly…
Human Factors
Eswatini’s King Mswati III remains one of the last absolute monarchs on Earth…
Space & Missions
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since…
Science & Engineering
What filled the universe in its first microseconds wasn’t gas, dust or atoms
Space & Missions
We tend to think reusable rockets are still experimental, but in 2025 SpaceX’s…
Space & Missions
A planet orbiting twin suns was directly photographed in 2025, hugging its two…
Universe
In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Oleg Atkov flew a portable ultrasound to Salyut 7 and…
Science & Engineering
In 1848 an explosion drove a three-foot-seven iron bar clean through the skull of…
Human Behaviour
The brain's default mode network was discovered almost by accident in the 1990s
Science & Engineering
Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by…
Science & Engineering
The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in…
Universe
NASA has calculated, to the precise second, when Voyager 1 will be exactly one…
Universe