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In a Cold War communications experiment in 1963, the US Air Force released 480 million copper needles into orbit, each just 1.8 centimetres long — the tiny pieces spread into a ring around Earth so radio messages could bounce off an artificial sky made of metal.
4+ day, 12+ min ago (594+ words) Project West Ford tested a sparse ring of copper dipoles as a passive radio relay. Only part of its 480-million-needle payload dispersed individually, leaving a complicated legacy....
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (488+ words) The Hillsborough meteorite was collected within minutes of falling through a New Jersey home, giving researchers a rare look at briny asteroid chemistry and a diverse set of extraterrestrial amino acids. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Edited by Ainura Kalau…...
Inside droplets of molten platinum, researchers found atoms pinned motionless even at extreme temperatures — and when enough formed a ring, they blocked crystallisation and kept the metal liquid more than 1,000°C below platinum’s normal melting point.
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (434+ words) In 3-to-6-nanometre platinum droplets on graphene, stationary edge atoms raised the crystallisation barrier and steered cooling metal toward an amorphous solid instead of a crystal....
A British firm collected used coffee grounds from cafés and other businesses, dried them and pressed them into fire logs; each log contained the grounds from about 25 cups of coffee and was said to burn about 20% hotter and longer than kiln-dried wood
1+ week, 3+ day ago (431+ words) circular product that burned hotter than wood—until the model couldn't sustain itself. By Space Daily Editorial...
A meteorite that punched through a New Jersey roof carried amino acids and evidence of ancient salty water — clues to the chemistry that may have helped supply early Earth with the ingredients for life
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (631+ words) A space rock that crashed through a New Jersey home carries organic molecules and signs of water—suggesting how asteroids may have seeded Earth's primordial chemistry. Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit A hole in the bedroom ceiling, black grit spread…...
Australian scientists extracted an enzyme from soil bacteria that produces electricity using traces of hydrogen in the air — it still worked after freezing or heating to 80°C, opening a possible route to small air-powered devices
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (621+ words) Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Scrape up a teaspoon of garden soil and you are holding several billion bacteria, and a fair few of them are quietly running on nothing but air. The habit is widespread and consequential. Soil microbes…...
A material found in crab and shrimp shells,usually thrown out by the seafood trade, was made into a gel and used as the working fluid inside a zinc battery. The zinc anode ran for more than 1,000 cycles at 99.7 percent Coulombic efficiency.
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (222+ words) What if the part of a battery you never think about, the fluid that sits between the electrodes, could be made from the shells your last seafood dinner left...
When Georgia Tech scientists tipped out a tumbler of Titan-like organic grains, 2 to 5 percent refused to fall, held to the walls by static electricity. In comparable experiments with terrestrial sand and volcanic ash, nothing stuck.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (875+ words) Organic grain analogues clung to a nitrogen-filled tumbler after becoming charged, but later tholin tests show why the result cannot yet be assumed to describe Titan's real dunes....
A protein that makes jellyfish glow was repurposed by researchers in Sweden as the light-harvesting material in a tiny solar cell — when exposed to UV light, it generated an electrical current
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (27+ words) Shine ultraviolet light on a droplet of glowing jellyfish protein and, for a moment, it stops behaving like biology and starts behaving like a solar cell. An...