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United States passport next to renewal form and mailing envelope for passport application

Official announcement: The United States will retain your passport if you renewed it by mail and did not return the previous one, and the rejection is automatic

March 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM
X-ray image of altermagnetic domains in an ultrathin manganese telluride film studied by researchers.

Scientists have managed to manipulate for the first time a type of magnetism that no one had ever seen in action: “altermagnetism” could revolutionize data storage.

March 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Microscopic image of Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, a 46,000 year old worm revived from Siberian permafrost.

A frozen worm buried for more than 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost awakens in a laboratory and baffles scientists: it has survived more than half a million times its natural life expectancy

March 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
NASA satellite image showing wildfires burning across snowy Arctic terrain near the North Pole

NASA captured it from space, and it looks like a bad joke: fire burning on the ice of the North Pole. The scary thing is that it has been multiplying for 10 years

March 3, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Image of the Ring Nebula highlighting the newly discovered bar of super hot iron gas across its center.

After observing it for years, astronomers discover a strange structure in an iconic object, and now everyone is wondering how it is possible that it had not been seen before

March 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Exterior of a Wendy’s restaurant in the United States amid plans to close hundreds of underperforming locations.

Goodbye to hundreds of Wendy’s restaurants across the country: the plan already includes between 200 and 350 closures and affects 4%–6% of its 6,000 restaurants

March 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Magnesium rich foods such as nuts, seeds, legumes and leafy greens linked to bone health

The forgotten mineral that can make a difference against osteoporosis in the long term, and many people do not meet the minimum requirement

March 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Two brightly colored poison frogs on rainforest leaves, showing how their toxic diet powers their chemical defenses

They measure between 2 and 6 centimeters, but their skin can hide one of the most lethal toxins on the planet, which is why the “poison dart frog” is so fearsome

March 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM
USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier at sea, the Navy’s newest carrier facing ongoing sewage system failures

This isn’t about hypersonic missiles: the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has a serious operational problem, and it’s purely plumbing-related

March 1, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Illustration of the solar system passing through the Radcliffe Wave, a giant filament of gas and young stars in the Milky Way.

It wasn’t just a simple stroll through the galaxy: 14 million years ago, the solar system passed through a colossal wave of gas and stars that may have triggered the great Miocene glaciation

February 28, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Amazon Leo internet satellites in low Earth orbit reflecting sunlight and creating bright streaks in the night sky.

The “Internet of the future” has a very literal dark side: nearly 2,000 observations reveal that Amazon’s satellites shine brighter than promised

February 28, 2026 at 11:57 AM
F-35 fighter jet in flight as the United States pressures Canada over its 88 aircraft purchase and the future of NORAD.

The United States issues an ultimatum that could change the map of North American airspace: if Canada renounces the purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets, Washington says it will have to “take command” of Canadian airspace and rethink the entire NORAD in 2026

February 27, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Aerial view of the Colombian Amazon rainforest, now declared free of new hydrocarbon and mega mining projects.

Goodbye to mining in the heart of the jungle: Colombia makes history by declaring its entire Amazon region free of hydrocarbons and mega-mining

February 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Researcher standing in a shallow Mediterranean temporary pond in São Marcos da Ataboeira, Castro Verde, Portugal after heavy rain

They look like simple puddles of water, but every time it rains, they activate a prehistoric ecosystem whose lineage began more than 100 million years ago and which the European Union considers a priority

February 26, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Deep sea image of thousands of pearl octopuses gathered at a hydrothermal nursery site near Davidson Seamount.

At a depth of 3.2 km and next to a volcano, they have recorded the largest octopus nursery on the planet, the size of 233 soccer fields and full of incubating mothers

February 26, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus structure after power outage affecting cooling systems

Chernobyl is left without power after damage to the Ukrainian power grid, and the IAEA confirms that cooling systems are losing capacity, causing the world to turn its attention back to the sarcophagus

February 26, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Ancient Aboriginal rock art showing a large seafaring vessel with human figures in northern Australia

Confirmed: a study of more than 2,400 genomes reveals that the first humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago… and that they may have coexisted with prehistoric “hobbits”

February 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Construction work at Rota Naval Base as Spain prepares facilities for the new F-110 frigates.

“They’re not ships, they’re floating brains”: why the Spanish Navy is redesigning an entire naval base so that the F-110s, valued at more than 4.3 billion, can operate without limits from 2026 onwards

February 25, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Excavation site in Riyadh where Saudi Arabia halted construction of the Mukaab mega cube project in New Murabba.

Saudi Arabia’s “impossible cube” no longer exists. On January 28, 2026, they stopped the Mukaab, a 400-square-meter colossus that would have swallowed up 20 Empire State Buildings

February 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
566-year-old coolabah “matriarch” tree in the Gwydir Wetlands, NSW, studied for five centuries of climate and flood history

A 566-year-old “matriarch” tree still stands in the Gwydir wetlands, and scientists say its trunk contains a climate record spanning five centuries

February 24, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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