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Deep beneath the ocean floor lies a strange form of ice that can literally catch fire — frozen crystals packed with methane, hiding enormous stores of gas inside what looks like ordinary ice.
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (259+ words) Scientists are racing to unlock an energy source that could power civilization for centuries—or accelerate climate catastrophe if it escapes. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere beneath the seafloor of nearly every continent right now, there’s a layer of…...
There's a group of seventeen obscure metals called the rare earths, tucked inside every smartphone, electric car, wind turbine, and guided missile — and a single country, China, mines about 70 percent of them and refines close to 90, a chokehold on modern technology few people realize exists
1+ week, 2+ day ago (195+ words) The West's technological dominance depends on elements it barely produces, in a supply chain controlled by Beijing. By Daniel Moran · Editorial process Published July 30, 2026 Australia mined 29,000 tonnes in 2025, second in the world, and much of that concentrate travels to Malaysia…...
Many scientists have won a Nobel Prize, but only one person ever pulled off what Marie Curie did: she won Nobels in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911, a feat no one has repeated in the century since
1+ week, 3+ day ago (646+ words) The myth of Marie Curie's brilliance obscures a darker truth: her achievement was less about transcendent talent than about the systemic barriers that made it nearly impossible for anyone to repeat. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 28, 2026 Curie’s double…...
In 1909, the chemist Fritz Haber pulled a few millilitres of ammonia out of ordinary air in a Karlsruhe laboratory, and the reaction he started now supplies the nitrogen atoms in roughly half the protein inside every human body alive today
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (133+ words) In 1909 the German chemist Fritz Haber found a way to pull nitrogen out of thin air. A 2008 Nature Geoscience paper calculates that roughly half the nitrogen atoms in the protein and DNA of every living human now trace back to…...
There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth's mantle than in every river, lake, and surface reservoir on the planet combined, hidden in a mineral called ringwoodite hundreds of miles beneath your feet
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (164+ words) Beneath the surface oceans, rivers, and lakes that define Earth's hydrology, a single mineral phase in the transition zone may hold a volume of water that dwarfs every drop on the planet's face....
A Falcon 9 upper stage burned up over Europe last February, and German scientists just caught it doing something to the atmosphere nobody had directly measured before
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1106+ words) By Space Daily Editorial Team · Editorial process Published May 15, 2026 Scientists in Germany have reported the first direct detection of upper-atmospheric pollution linked to the reentry of a specific piece of space debris, after a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage burned up…...
The microscopic ocean species doing roughly five percent of the planet's photosynthesis wasn't even described in textbooks until the late 1980s, and the carbon budgets attributed to it have been quietly rewritten ever since
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (87+ words) Marine researchers are rewriting how plankton drive ocean carbon storage, with implications that reach from textbook taxonomy to climate models still relying on outdated assumptions about who does the work....
Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first time
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (528+ words) But astronomers have also identified brown dwarfs smaller than 13 Jupiter masses. Xuan and colleagues at UCSD have now found some answers in four enormous gas giant planets that orbit a star called HR 8799, located approximately 133 light-years away in the constellation…...
Hydrogen bond design advances solar water oxidation efficiency
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (93+ words) Space Daily Hydrogen bond design advances solar water oxidation efficiency Under operating conditions, the researchers observed that the hydrogen bonded system significantly increased the population of useful surface holes, which are the active oxidizing agents in water splitting. After charge…...