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August 2026
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Science & Engineering
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in…
Earth & Life
For centuries the Dutch took land from the water, but between 2006 and 2019 they…
Earth & Life
Deep beneath the ocean floor lies a strange form of ice that can literally catch…
Science & Engineering
India landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft near the Moon’s south pole in August 2023…
Human Factors
You have spent your entire life staring at a reversed copy of your own face…
Science & Engineering
NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets…
Asia News
Singapore has grown roughly 28% larger since 1965 by using imported sand for land…
Earth & Life
One night in 1986, a peaceful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of…
Science & Engineering
Neptune sits more than a billion kilometres farther from the Sun, yet parts of…
Universe
A six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar…
Science & Engineering
A robotic rover sitting on the surface of Mars photographed real clouds glowing…
Space & Missions
Every turn of Curiosity’s six aluminium wheels stamps the letters JPL into Mars in…
Human Factors
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus
Science & Engineering
More than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica, not because more…
Earth & Life