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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.
1+ hour, 2+ 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…...
People are falling in love with AI companions that remember their lives, flirt back and are always available to talk — researchers studying these relationships have found users forming intense emotional bonds and treating the bots like romantic partners
6+ hour, 4+ min ago (255+ words) When the AI they loved stopped being themselves overnight, users experienced grief indistinguishable from losing a real person—raising urgent questions about emotional authenticity in the digital age. Published September 13, 2026 · How we edit In February 2023, Replika users woke up to…...
Paper bags and cardboard boxes normally headed for the trash were carbonized into anodes for lithium-ion batteries, and the resulting electrodes survived 1,200 charge cycles — roughly twice the durability of anodes used in current phone batteries
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (441+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit A paper bag that carried someone’s lunch on Tuesday has a plausible future inside a phone. Researchers at NTU Singapore have worked out how to bake kraft paper, the brown…...
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, 4+ 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…...
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, 6+ 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…...
The world could have accumulated 78 million tons of retired solar panels by 2050. A team in South Korea pulled the silicon out of end-of-life panels, purified it to 99.95 percent, and cooked it into silicon nitride, the hard ceramic used in bearings.
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (795+ words) As solar waste threatens to become a massive problem, one discovery reveals the difference between disposal and profit. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit Solar panels do not last forever. Most are built to…...
A viewing deck 210 meters over Paris opened in 1974 and shut on March 31 this year for several years while the whole building is rebuilt. The company that ran it had owned and operated the observatory and its floors for 53 years.
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (593+ words) After 52 years of operation, Paris's highest public vantage point goes dark—not for renovation, but for a complete rebuilding that could keep it closed until 2030. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit On…...
The U.S. Postal Service will still carry boxes of newborn chickens, ducks, geese, quail and even emus — but they must enter the mail within 24 hours of hatching and be deliverable within 72
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (535+ words) A century-old loophole lets farmers mail millions of live birds across the country—as long as they're still damp from the egg. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere in America right now, a cardboard box is chirping. That box is…...
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, 5+ 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…...
Sweden imported nearly three million tonnes of other countries’ garbage in a single year and was paid roughly 373 kronor for every tonne it accepted — because its waste-to-energy plants burn what others throw away to help heat more than a million homes
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (430+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Rubbish may be the only cargo in Europe where the sender pays the receiver and both parties walk away pleased. None of it is being bought. Sweden charges for the…...