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10 coldest countries in the world 2026: Russia, Canada, Iceland and more

There is no single reason a country ends up among the coldest on Earth. In some cases, the explanation lies in geography, with vast territories stretching towards the Arctic. Elsewhere, towering mountain ranges keep temperatures low despite being far from the polar regions. Annual temperature averages often reveal a different…

The Times of India

Australian Space Agency reveals likely origin of mysterious ‘space balls’ found on Queensland beaches

Organisation says objects consistent with ‘debris from a foreign rocket body that recently re-entered the atmosphere’

The Guardian - AU

Microplastic filters for washing machines could soon be mandatory in the EU. How do they work?

Every time you do laundry, your clothes shed microplastics. A Bristol startup has built a filter to stop them.

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How Sea Turtles Navigate Thousands of Miles Back to Their Natal Beach Decades Later

The Imprint Happens on the Very First NightA loggerhead sea turtle hatchling weighs about 20 grams when it breaks out of its shell. Within hours, it is already doing the most important thing it will ever do: reading the Earth's magnetic field. Research published in Current Biology by Kenneth Lohmann…

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How Manta Rays Use Magnetic Fields to Navigate the Ocean and What Marine Research Reveals

The Animal That Reads the EarthA reef manta ray tagged off the Maldives in 2015 travelled over 1,100 kilometres in a single migratory leg, crossing open water with no reef, no current marker, and no detectable landmark to guide it. It arrived where it was going. Researchers at the Marine…

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Blue Whale Heart Size Explained: The Cardiac Biology Behind the Ocean's Giant Mammal

The Numbers FirstThe only intact blue whale heart ever preserved and studied in detail came from a specimen that washed ashore in Newfoundland in 2014. Scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum spent months preparing it. The result: a heart roughly 180 centimetres long, 150 centimetres wide, and weighing approximately 180…

Times Life

What If Every Line of Hanuman Chalisa Is Protected by Sita and Rama?

Millions of people recite the Hanuman Chalisa every day. Some do it out of devotion, some for peace, and others simply because it has become a daily ritual. But very few stop to notice something extraordinary hidden in plain sight. What if the real power of the Hanuman Chalisa is…

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As Venezuela quake deaths pass 3,000, attention turns to mourning, burials

CATIA LA MAR (VENEZUELA) - Deaths from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes rose to at least 3,342 on Sunday as officials began to bury dozens of bodies left unidentified 11 days after the disaster.

Bangkok Post

Venezuela quake survivor 'reborn' after eight days in rubble

CARACAS - Hernan Gil was working his shift as a security guard in the basement of a building in Venezuela on the afternoon of June 24 when he felt the earth shake.

Bangkok Post

Greenlandic proverb of the day: 'The weather decides for the hunter'— Nature sets the rules, and every decision must adapt to its uncertainty

In the harsh Arctic landscape, survival is less about human prowess and more about the capricious nature of the environment. The saying, 'The weather decides for the hunter,' aptly reflects this truth for Inuit peoples. Factors like ice condition and wind speed play a pivotal role in hunting success. As…

The Times of India

SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere — new environmental concerns emerge over burning 2,700-pound orbital data centers, FCC seeks to exempt satellites from regulations

SpaceX retired 260 Starlink satellites in six months, with hundreds more to follow, as debate grows over the atmospheric impact of satellite burn-ups.

Tom’s Hardware

China's dominance in rare earth industry has key structural weakness as US, Japan hold core patents: Study

Despite controlling the majority of global rare earth mining and processing, China's dominance faces a significant structural weakness. A recent study reveals that core patents for advanced rare earth functional materials, crucial for high-tech applications, are largely held by the US and Japan. This suggests China's upstream advantage hasn't translated…

The Economic Times

Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate

Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century

The Guardian - AU

Why do some villages in China build circular homes: The remarkable story behind Fujian Tulou earthen fortresses

Seen from above, they resemble giant doughnuts carved into the landscape. From ground level, they look more like medieval fortresses than family homes. Their towering earthen walls, narrow entranceways and vast wooden interiors seem designed for defence rather than domestic life. Yet behind these imposing façades lies one of China's…

The Times of India

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Readers reply: Are there places on Earth where humans haven’t been?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions takes a deep dive into the unknown and untrodden …

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Scottish asian wanted to always become a vegetable and decides to cosplay as one, since all he needs is a hat and a shot or two of tequila

“Apparently, I've been dealt with the best genetics on planet Earth.”

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He-Man and beyond: 20 sci-fi cartoons (some iconic, some weird) that transported '80s and '90s kids to strange new worlds

They had the power! Saturday morning cartoons introduced many kids to science fiction... and toys, lots and lots of toys

LiveScience

NASA celebrates America's 250th birthday with red, white and blue snaps of the cosmos — Space photo of the week

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrates the Fourth of July with a dazzling array of red, white and blue space phenomena.

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Life Out There review – astronauts search for meaning in atmospheric space oddity

These lonely travellers overlap with Bowie’s Maj Tom, Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary or Spielberg’s Disclosure Day as they contemplate our place in the vastness of the void

The Times of India

Oceans hit record June temperatures as El Niño builds: Why the world is heading for more heat, floods and stronger cyclones

The world is heading for more heat, floods and stronger cyclones because record-breaking ocean temperatures are loading the climate system with enormous amounts of extra energy. More than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases has been absorbed by the oceans, causing sea surface temperatures to reach record…

The Guardian - UK

The strangest show on earth: lightning, imperial hubris and a boring tour of Trump’s rhetorical back alleys

Would we get a 21st-century Gettysburg address? Or YMCA, gripes about his legal woes and boasting about Iran?

The Economic Times

Orbital plans space data centres to power AI, seeks FCC clearance for 100,000 satellites

A US startup, Orbital, is looking to set up space-based data centres to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company aims to launch its first data centre satellite next year, with plans for 100,000 satellites in low Earth orbit to deliver 10 gigawatts of compute. Orbital plans…

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Human flight was still 7 years away in 1776. Now, we're headed back to the moon

Humanity made some halting steps toward flight over the centuries, but our species was still firmly rooted on the ground when the United States of America was born on July 4, 1776.

The Times of India

China's grasslands don't adapt to drought gradually; scientists found that they reach a point where perennial plants give way to fast-growing annual species

Scientists' long-held belief that grasslands adapt slowly to drought has been challenged by a new study on China's temperate grasslands. The research reveals these ecosystems remain stable until a critical water limit is breached, then rapidly transform from deep-rooted perennials to fast-growing annuals. This abrupt shift, driven by increasing global…

International Business Times

Why Some Scientists Suggest Advanced Aliens May Exist Without Physical Bodies

Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial life. This theory questions our assumptions about consciousness and its potential forms in the universe.

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