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A diagram showing a home solar nanogrid where panels, batteries, and a heat pump are connected via a direct-current bus.

A new study says linking solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with direct current could save up to 16.7% on electricity, and the trick is avoiding invisible conversions happening inside the home

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July 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Prototype of the hydrogel jacket developed by University of Texas engineers, designed to capture moisture from the air and produce drinking water.

Texas engineers created a jacket capable of extracting up to 900 milliliters of drinking water per day directly from the air, an invention that sounds like science fiction for surviving a drier future

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July 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Workers assemble a home using structural insulated panels (SIPs), a prefabricated building system designed for faster construction and improved energy efficiency.

Homes that can be built in just one week, without cement and with the promise of saving energy: the system trying to prove that building fast does not have to mean building worse

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July 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Illustration of Mars showing ancient water stored beneath the surface and carbon trapped in clay minerals over billions of years.

The mystery of Mars’ missing water just got stranger: scientists think part of its ancient atmosphere and moisture may have been trapped for 3 billion years inside minerals on the Red Planet

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July 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Ancient Roman house discovered beneath Liceo Cavour's school gym in Rome, featuring decorated rooms, frescoes, and archaeological remains.

Italian teenagers followed a rumor that something was hidden beneath their school gym and ended up helping reveal a 1,800-year-old luxury Roman house near the Colosseum 

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July 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Commuter riding a lightweight e-bike with Bosch Hub Line rear motor along a city waterfront.

Bosch has just broken with more than a decade of tradition in the e-bike industry with its first rear hub motor, a 5.1-pound urban system designed to integrate seamlessly into the wheel 

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July 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Male Edwards’s pheasant with metallic blue plumage and white crest in a conservation breeding program

A Málaga-born pheasant traveled thousands of miles to Vietnam, and its mission is to help revive a species missing from the wild since 2000

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July 16, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Foam and polluted water in the Tagus River showing signs of contamination in Spain.

The Tagus River has just issued a silent warning in Spain: at the 19 monitoring sites analyzed over the course of nearly a year, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and signs of fecal contamination have been detected along some 300 kilometers of the rive

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July 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Bird nest built with thin cable and natural fibers, showing wildlife adaptation to human-made debris

Birds near the front lines in Ukraine are building nests with fiber-optic cable left behind by military drones: a small but striking image of how nature is trying to survive amid the rubble of the battlefield

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July 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Yaguara the jaguar wearing a tracking collar as she leaves her transport crate in Bolivia

Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle

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July 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
European eel in shallow freshwater river with low water levels during summer drought.

It isn’t the Iberian lynx or the polar bear closest to extinction in Spain, but a fish you can still legally catch as summer dries its rivers to stagnant pools 

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July 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Person holding used coffee grounds in a paper filter after brewing.

It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds

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July 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Close up of salt crystals used as base material for sodium ion batteries

The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-hours for sodium batteries by 2030

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July 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Power-to-gas plant in Spain producing renewable methane from hydrogen and captured CO2

A town in Extremadura called Miajadas has just launched an initiative that seems like a laboratory experiment but is already yielding results: converting green hydrogen and captured CO2 into renewable gas that flows through actual pipelines

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July 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM
People swimming in clear water at Flamengo Beach in Rio de Janeiro during early morning

Río Beach, whose recovery seemed impossible for years, now attracts more than 300 early-morning swimmers and hosts open-water swimming schools in a spot that almost no one dared to approach before

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July 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Hannah Herbst presenting her ocean energy generator prototype built with simple materials

A 15-year-old student has built a generator for just $12 using a propeller, a PVC pipe, and recycled parts, and her idea is once again drawing attention because it could provide lighting to coastal communities by harnessing the energy of water

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July 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Woman performing overhead dumbbell triceps extension at home to tone upper arms

Many people work out their arms without really knowing what they are doing, but the area that most gives away “bat wings” is right behind the arm and requires specific strength training—not just pretty movements

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July 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Male seahorse representing the extraordinary parenting behaviors found in the animal kingdom, including male pregnancy and parental care.

A seahorse that gets pregnant, a fish that hides its young in its mouth, and a fox that feeds its entire family: the surprising list of nature’s most extraordinary parents

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July 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Illustration of flowering plants representing self-fertilization and reproductive strategies examined in a new evolutionary biology study.

For decades, it has been said that self-fertilization was like entering an evolutionary dead end, but a new study has just put a rather uncomfortable spin on that old idea

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July 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Chest X-ray showing severe tuberculosis infection with damaged lung tissue

Everything seemed like a typical case of tuberculosis that was responding well to antibiotics, until scientists analyzed the infection more closely and discovered small mutations that could alter the prognosis

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July 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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