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The world’s largest solar telescope resolved the Sun at about 19-km scale and revealed ubiquitous plasma vortices that may help explain how magnetic energy moves

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The observations were made with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), a powerful 4-metre class solar...

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Mercury is still shrinking after billions of years: How its giant cooling core is cracking the planet’s thin crust |

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Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, but what...

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Wyoming’s Casper landfill buried 1,124 turbine blades after each was cut into three pieces; a Missouri plant offers another route by turning old blades into cement feedstock

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Outside Casper, pieces of turbine blades cut through were lowered by a loader into a trench for...

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Florida scientists are turning rice husk waste into reusable water filters that can remove pollutants from contaminated water |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Rice leaves behind more than a meal. After the grain has been processed, the tough outer husk...

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In 1991, NASA sent jellyfish into space, but many struggled to swim properly after returning to Earth |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Representative Image of jellyfish floating gracefully in a microgravity environment (AI-generated image) In 1991, NASA sent jellyfish...

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Scientists trained honeybees to recognise human faces, showing how tiny brains can distinguish faces by the arrangement of their features |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

Honeybees can be trained with nothing more than the promise of a sugary reward; they learn to...

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Scientists discovered that animal poop travelled across oceans 540-million-years ago and triggered the evolution of life on earth |

Aj Mix Editor August 10, 2026

A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, US. Image Credit: Poozeum/Wikipedia...

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This insect makes a house of silk and leaves and then carries it everywhere on its back for safety

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Many species of bagworms choose to use twigs and small sticks to make their casings Imagine building...

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In 2017, Antigua and Barbuda removed invasive rats and goats from Redonda; by 2023, vegetation biomass rose over 2,000% and ground dragons increased 13-fold

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Redonda had become a thriving haven for wildlife within a few years, and now it has received...

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In 1967, US satellites hunting secret nuclear tests detected a flash from deep space; the accidental signal became the first observed gamma-ray burst

Aj Mix Editor August 9, 2026

Artist’s concept of a close-up naked-eye view of a GRB. Credit: NASA For more than half a...

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