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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, 13+ 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) meteorite that lands in a bedroom sounds like a strange news item, but the scientific value came from the short...
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) about 1.3 tonnes of TNT, as reported by Science News. Doppler weather radar at Newark Airport picked...
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) A British startup transformed millions of cups of coffee into premium fuel, creating a circular product that burned hotter than wood—until the model couldn't sustain itself. By Space Daily Editorial Team Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit There’s a satisfying…...
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...
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, 22+ 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....
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....