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In early 2026, NASA’s “Big Bang” reconfiguration freed nearly 10 watts aboard Voyager 2 by switching several powered systems to lower-energy alternatives simultaneously, buying its three remaining science instruments at least another year without generating a single additional watt.

2+ hour, 59+ min ago   (815+ words) Voyager 2’s 2026 Big Bang power swap cut demand by nearly 10 watts, preserving its magnetometer, plasma wave and cosmic ray instruments for at least another year. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit Voyager 2 cannot…...

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136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...

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A DNA clock trained on fifteen captive crown-of-thorns seastars of five known ages missed their true age by 0.31 years on average

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (691+ words) The Pacific coral-eating seastar now has a 14-site methylation clock built from tank-reared animals aged one to three and a half years. By Lab Report · Edited by Chris Jeremia Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit Crown-of-thorns seastars eat coral. On the…...

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When Hiram Bingham announced he had discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, families were farming between its terraces and an 11-year-old boy led him up to the ruins — the "lost city of the Incas" appears on maps drawn decades before he arrived

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (175+ words) A Yale explorer's celebrated 1911 "discovery" of Machu Picchu overlooked an inconvenient truth: local families already lived there, and the ruins weren't lost at all. Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit On the morning of July 24, 1911, the man about to become the…...

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In 98 years of the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment, nine drops have fallen and no human has ever seen one land

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1083+ words) The University of Queensland pitch drop experiment has been running since 1927, dripped nine times, and never once been seen falling by a human eye. The tenth drop is now forming. By The Long View Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Inside…...

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In the early 1970s, volunteers and county crews sank up to 2 million tires off Fort Lauderdale to build a reef — broken straps, corroding clips and storms scattered them, and cleanup crews have since hauled more than 600,000 back up

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (582+ words) What began as an environmental triumph—dumping millions of tires to build an artificial reef—became one of the ocean's most stubborn cleanup nightmares. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit On 22 April 1972, a Goodyear blimp hung over the water off Fort…...

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Coral growth rings from 400 million years ago record about 400 days in a year, because Earth spun faster then and the day lasted closer to 22 hours

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (919+ words) Daily and annual growth bands in fossil corals helped reveal a faster-spinning Earth. About 400 days fitted into a year, putting each day near 22 modern hours. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A fossil…...

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When a dog gazes into its owner’s eyes, oxytocin can rise in both of them, creating a bonding loop involving the same hormone released between mothers and babies — Japanese researchers found wolves did not show the same effect

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (407+ words) The same hormone that binds mothers to infants may explain why dogs, uniquely among animals, evolved to bond with humans through a single glance. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Some of…...

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Beneath a field of loose rubble on Utah’s Mount Timpanogos, scientists mapped a hidden mass of ice up to 150 feet thick — enough frozen water to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (765+ words) Massive ice deposits hidden beneath Utah mountain rubble could reshape understanding of water resources and climate patterns in the American West. By Natural History · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A field of loose rubble under the…...

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Scientists in Switzerland made a sponge from cheesemaking waste that captures gold from discarded electronics — after dissolving metal parts from 20 old computer motherboards, they recovered enough to melt into a 22-carat gold nugget

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (533+ words) A Swiss lab transformed dairy waste into a gold-recovery tool, extracting precious metal from e-waste that most recyclers leave behind. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Cheese leaves behind a pale, watery…...