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The British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales navigating through icy Arctic waters during a naval deployment.

The United Kingdom takes a step forward in the Arctic in 2026 and deploys its aircraft carrier Prince of Wales to “protect” Greenland, a geostrategic shift reminiscent of the old Cold War logic, but with melting ice as the new backdrop

March 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Red boat moving through icy Greenland waters near large ice formations, illustrating the coastal regions affected by ice loss and sea-level change.

The strange “Greenland effect” now has figures and defies intuition: the more ice the island loses, the more sea levels along its coastline can drop due to a truly brutal double geological and gravitational mechanism

March 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Satellite view of storm system over Spain showing heavy rainfall and flooding across the Iberian Peninsula

ESA analyzes the storm system battering Spain from space and reveals an atmospheric pattern that could recur more frequently

March 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
NASA’s Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, where scientists detected organic molecules in an ancient lakebed sample

A rock drilled by Curiosity in Gale Crater in 2013 is back in the news because it might hold a key clue to ancient life on Mars—and no one expected that from an “old” hole

March 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Stephen Hawking portrait highlighting his legacy in physics and his reflections on calm and powerful thinking

Stephen Hawking, scientist: “Calm and peaceful people have the strongest and most expressive minds”

March 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Carl Sagan smiling in front of a cosmic background, reflecting on his idea that the universe is indifferent to humanity

Carl Sagan, astronomer: “The universe was not created to accommodate man, nor is it hostile to him. It is indifferent to him”

March 19, 2026 at 5:39 AM
NASA SR-71 Blackbird flying at high altitude, the legendary aircraft linked to the Japan to California flight that appeared to travel through time

The plane that “traveled through time”: it left Japan on Saturday and arrived in California “on Friday”

March 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Concept image of Sentitech’s Domus Sentinela double-dome perimeter security system protecting a large airfield with layered detection zones.

A Spanish startup founded in April 2025 validates in record time an AI-powered perimeter surveillance system with sensor fusion, covering 40 hectares and 2,500 meters in real air traffic and reaching TRL 6 with a “double dome” that detects up to 3 km

March 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Close-up of a small spider with parasitic mite larvae attached around its body, forming a necklace-like cluster.

A spider with a “pearl necklace” has been discovered, and the most disturbing thing is that each pearl is a living parasite attached to its body

March 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Illustration of atmospheric pollution showing how refrigerant gases break down into trifluoroacetic acid that returns to Earth in rain.

Between 2000 and 2022, humanity dumped 335,500 tons of an “eternal chemical” while trying to save the ozone layer, and now it appears in water, the Arctic, and even in our blood

March 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Autonomous undersea vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin operating at the ocean surface during a test demonstration.

Lockheed Martin is developing an autonomous submarine capable of operating with drones and torpedoes: a venture that could transform naval warfare

March 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
African sharptooth catfish leaving a pond at night and moving across wet ground, recorded by a wildlife camera trap.

A camera trap records a “group” of fish leaving the water at night to walk on land for almost 20 minutes

March 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Laboratory experiment with bacteriophages used in a NASA study on the International Space Station to observe how viruses evolve in microgravity.

NASA “cultivates” viruses in space and, upon bringing them back to Earth, discovers that they have become more effective

March 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Juvenile great white shark accidentally caught by fishermen in waters near Alicante, Spain in the western Mediterranean.

A great white shark has been caught in waters near the Spanish coast: this is the third verified sighting in less than 11 years and reopens the debate about their presence in the Mediterranean

March 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Person walking across cracked dry land carrying water containers, illustrating worsening drought and future global water shortages.

Goodbye to water as we know it: a study warns that 74% of regions could experience unprecedented shortages by 2100

March 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Dark image with an industrial facility visible at the top, illustrating the Fukushima nuclear site tied to research on microbial life in radioactive water.

Fifteen years after the disaster, the Fukushima reactors hide a secret: scientists detect life where radiation should have prevented everything

March 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
LignoSat wooden cube satellite prototype with metal supports, illustrating Japan’s experiment to reduce orbital debris with wood.

Japan launches a wooden box into space as a “strange but brilliant solution” to an increasingly serious problem, orbital debris, and proposes an idea that seems like science fiction, but seeks to prevent the future of space from becoming an unmanageable landfill

March 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Elon Musk standing in front of a SpaceX rocket on a launch pad, illustrating the debate over Moon and Mars settlement plans

Elon Musk rethinks the fate of human civilization beyond Mars and sends a message that shifts the focus of the space debate

March 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Gloved hand using a pipette in a lab setup with gallium and glassware, illustrating hydrogen production from sunlight and water

Australian scientists have succeeded in producing hydrogen using gallium, sunlight, and seawater: a breakthrough that could make clean energy cheaper

March 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Artist’s illustration of the Milky Way’s bright galactic center, where scientists propose ultra-dense dark matter instead of a black hole

Scientists propose that the center of the Milky Way does not contain a black hole, but rather ultra-dense dark matter

March 12, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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