Science & Engineering
August 2026
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Space & Missions
NASA's Perseverance captured Earth vanishing behind Phobos from Mars
Earth & Life
Your morning coffee uses 140 litres of hidden water to grow the beans
Universe
Webb spots altered rock from Neptune's ancient destroyed moons
Science & Engineering
Beef takes 15,000 litres of water per kilogram, yet AI data centres face the outcry
Science & Engineering
Scientists read RNA from a 39,000-year-old mammoth, revealing its final moments
Science & Engineering
Pregnant shark swallowed whole, tag reveals unexpected ocean predator
Science & Engineering
Webb finds black hole masquerading as massive star 660 million years after Big Bang
Science & Engineering
Wolf filmed stealing crab from human trap in rare ocean behavior
Space & Missions
Design competition winner imagines 2,400 people governing themselves across 400-year space voyage
Science & Engineering
A bowhead whale living today could have been born before the American Civil War
Science & Engineering
Dolphins on opposite coasts independently invented the same fishing trick
Science & Engineering
Companies plan to launch AI data centres into orbit for endless sunlight
Space & Missions
Mars and Earth swap sky colors due to the same physics working backward
Space & Missions
Starlink now outnumbers all other satellites combined in orbit
Space & Missions