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Science • Jul 15

New process turns mixed plastic waste directly into hydrogen fuel without sorting

Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life—in water bottles, shopping bags and car dashboards. But once discarded, it is among the hardest...

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Science • Jul 15

Glaciers spotted flowing across the Himalayas from space | Space photo of the day for July 15, 2026

Towering glaciers flow down the Himalayas' northern slopes like icy giants cascading onto China's Tibetan Plateau.

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Science • Jul 15

Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night

A startup just received regulatory approval to launch a giant mirror satellite to reflect sunlight down onto Earth.

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Science • Jul 15

Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night

There's light pollution — and then there are giant orbital space mirrors that blot out the night sky. On July 9, the US Federal Communications Commission...

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Science • Jul 15

In 2019, Victor Vescovo made the deepest solo dive in human history, descending nearly 11 kilometres into the Challenger Deep, and at the bottom of the ocean he reported seeing what looked like a plastic bag

In late April 2019, Victor Vescovo took a two-person titanium submersible called the DSV Limiting Factor alone to the floor of the Challenger Deep,...

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Science • Jul 15

Ultraviolet light uncovers the first known juveniles of a mysterious Jurassic fish family

For more than 150 years, fossils of Jurassic fish scattered across Europe's museums were studied and drawn by generations of scientists.

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Science • Jul 15

See the first x-rays of humans taken in space

Equipping spacecraft with x-ray machines could boost safety for long-duration spaceflights—like a crewed mission to Mars.

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Science • Jul 15

What does it mean to be ‘quantum’? A physicist explains the basics behind Einstein’s spooky actions at a distance

Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another.

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Science • Jul 15

Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China’s Great Bay University

On his return to China, Zhang says he looks forward to cultivating talent 'who truly understand science, technology and industrial needs'.

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Science • Jul 15

Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding

Astronomers have discovered a faint new world orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.

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Science • Jul 15

Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a collision almost weekly, and experts fear the worst

SpaceX's Starlink satellites made over 355000 collision avoidance maneuvers over the past year with each satellite now dodging other objects almost weekly.

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Science • Jul 15

The moon is drifting away from Earth by about 3.8 centimetres a year — measured to the millimetre by bouncing laser light off mirrors the Apollo astronauts left sitting in the lunar dust more than half a century ago

The corner-cube reflectors Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard and David Scott left on the Moon between 1969 and 1971 are still returning laser pulses fired from...

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Science • Jul 15

A new stellar census strengthens the case for a 13.8-billion-year-old universe

Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, and their findings may be good...

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Science • Jul 15

The Grand Tour and the Three-Body Problem — Journey to Neptune

Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, I am writing to you from home, where I am spending a few days of holiday.

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Science • Jul 15

NASA’s HiRISE Captures Perseverance Rover Completing a Marathon on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has completed a marathon-length journey across Mars, reaching the 26.2-mile mark in just over five years.

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Science • Jul 15

Voyager 1 crossed the edge of the Sun's protective bubble and entered interstellar space, but instead of fading gently into the void it met a strange, porous boundary scientists had not anticipated

For six years one of Voyager 1's instruments had counted the same steady drizzle of low-energy particles streaming off the Sun. On 25 August 2012, over a.

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Science • Jul 15

Metallic waves on ancient Mars

The European Space Agency's Mars Express has spotted a swathe of metallic-looking waves filling Mars's large Kaiser Crater – an ancient and otherworldly...

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Science • Jul 15

Curiosity discovers strange honeycomb structures on Mars

The Curiosity rover has discovered structures on Mars that resemble honeycombs. From orbit, the area appeared smooth, so the terrain came as a surprise.

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Science • Jul 15

Sharks Are More Than Just Predators

TDT | Manama Email: mail@newsofbahrain.com The Supreme Council for Environment (SCE) marked World...

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Science • Jul 15

Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than every known oil and gas reserve on Earth combined, yet you couldn't light a single drop — its air is nitrogen and methane, with almost no oxygen, so a campfire is physically impossible

The Cassini-Huygens mission, which operated from 2004 to 2017, mapped a moon of Saturn whose north polar plains hold lakes large enough to dwarf major...

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