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Industrial pyrolysis unit used by Petgas to convert plastic waste into fuel products in Boca del Río, Mexico.

Plastic headed for landfills is being turned into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel in Mexico, and Petgas is sparking an uncomfortable debate about what “recycling” really means

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May 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Raw sheep wool spread as protective mulch around the base of a young olive tree to retain soil moisture.

Farmers find an unexpected ally: sheep wool improves olive grove soils and could help them withstand drought without chemicals or major construction

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A close-up view of a tiny, reddish-orange kyawthuite crystal, the only confirmed natural specimen of this mineral species in existence.

The rarest mineral recognized by science weighs about 0.011 ounces, exists as a single known natural specimen, and its discovery exposes how fragile Earth’s catalog still is

By Adrian Villellas

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May 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM

A pressure cooker on a stovetop with steam escaping from the pressure valve during a cooking experiment.

Inside a pressure cooker, a simple experiment shows how steam raises temperature and speeds up beans, and it also explains why that whistle is pure physics

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM

The expansive oval-shaped roof and architectural interior of the massive Xiong’an Railway Station in China.

China built Asia’s largest rail station in just two years, with about 5.1 million square feet, solar power, and welding robots, and the scale shows who’s setting the infrastructure pace

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May 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM

The Petralona cranium, an ancient hominin skull discovered in northern Greece, featuring a distinct, primitive morphology.

A 286,000-year-old hominin skull found in Petralona Cave in Greece still has no clear identity, and the gap reopens the puzzle of who lived in Europe before Neanderthals

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Weathered decontamination canisters found abandoned in a remote, rocky ravine near Dixon, New Mexico.

A 70-year-old hiker says someone chose a spot “real hard to get to” near Rinconada and Dixon to dump decontamination canisters from the 1980s, and the state still cannot say what risks, if any, are sitting in that remote ravine

By Kevin Montien

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May 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM

View of Earth from space illustrating changes in the planet’s rotation that could lead to future 25‑hour days.

Goodbye to the 24-hour day: from this date onwards, days on Earth will last 25 hours

By Adrian Villellas

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May 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM

A massive center cutterhead section for a tunnel boring machine being transported on a 152-wheel specialized trailer through city streets.

It took a truck with 152 wheels to move a 302,000-pound tunnel-boring cutterhead, and the transport logistics look like an engineering project inside another engineering project

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May 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A deepwater drilling rig operating in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil at the Bumerangue exploration site.

An oil and gas deposit is found nearly 20,000 feet below the sea off Brazil, and the depth explains why every drill is also a high-tech gamble

By Adrian Villellas

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May 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Large mesh fog harvesting nets mounted on a mountain ridge in Morocco's Anti-Atlas region to collect water from atmospheric mist.

For generations women in southwest Morocco spent up to 4 hours a day hauling five-gallon barrels that weighed nearly 50 pounds, and now giant polymer fog nets mounted above 4,000 feet pull Atlantic mist out of the air and send drinking water to taps about 6.2 miles away

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM

A well-preserved heavy iron anchor recovered from the seabed during construction of the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm.

Buried under North Sea sand for nearly 2,000 years, a Roman iron-and-wood anchor more than 6.6 feet long and weighing about 220 pounds was lifted off the Suffolk coast so intact it looks impossible, and archaeologists say it may have held a merchant ship of 500 to 600 tons in place

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May 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Historical illustration of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption showing massive ash plumes and atmospheric shock waves radiating outward.

Nuclear blasts can go unnoticed from 1,000 km away, but the loudest sound ever recorded was heard 4,800 km away and circled the planet four times, a physics oddity that still stuns

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Large-scale aerial view of the Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport land reclamation site in Jinzhou Bay, China.

China is building a massive floating airport in the middle of the ocean, and the idea of a runway on water shows how far engineering goes when land runs out

By Adrian Villellas

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May 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Archaeologists working at the Molkenmarkt excavation site in Berlin to recover medieval artifacts before urban redevelopment.

Berlin opens a 269,000-square-foot pit in the city center and exposes its medieval roots, with archaeologists racing construction crews to save coins, walls, and clues before it is covered again

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Radar map visualization of the Nyx Mons region on Venus, highlighting a potential volcanic skylight and subsurface lava tube.

Astronomers claim they have found Venus’ first volcanic cave, and the idea of a natural shelter on a hellish planet forces new questions about what is happening under the surface

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May 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Aurora, a rescued bald eagle, playing with colorful floating rings and toys in a shallow water pool.

A 12-year-old bald eagle named Aurora is splashing in a kiddie pool with a pile of toys at a licensed wildlife rehab in Connecticut, and the twist is she is non-releasable after a truck strike and a partial wing amputation in 2024

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM

ModRoof modular panels made from recycled cardboard and coconut husk fiber being installed on a low-income home.

A man builds roofs from cardboard and farm waste for precarious homes, and after installing hundreds he proves impact can be humble, cheap, and scalable

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May 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Map visualization showing critical subsea fiber-optic cables traversing the Strait of Hormuz, connecting global data centers.

Iran eyes undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz and threatens a “digital toll,” a move that could hit Google, Meta, and Microsoft without firing a shot

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May 29, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Concept art of the French Navy's future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, France Libre, underway at sea.

France just approved France Libre, a 78,000-ton nuclear aircraft carrier projected at about $12 billion, and the catch is it will not enter service until 2038, the same year the current Charles de Gaulle is scheduled to retire

By Sonia Ramírez

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May 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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Global view of Mars, the planet NASA plans to eventually explore with human crews.

NASA still has no year for the first human Mars landing, and the missing date reveals why the real countdown has not begun

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Two 40,000-year-old bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory and discovered in Hohle Fels Cave in Germany.

Archaeologists have uncovered two tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany dating back about 40,000 years

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Miami-Dade firefighter comforting Jack after finding the black dog inside a dumpster.

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Marine life around an offshore wind turbine foundation in the waters off Taiwan.

Engineers drove enormous steel foundations directly into bare Atlantic sand to hold offshore wind turbines upright, and what happens around those artificial structures afterward is changing the seabed in ways nobody designed them for

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NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft flying above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in an artist's concept.

NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift

Published On: August 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Orforglipron oral GLP-1 pill developed by Eli Lilly for adults with type 2 diabetes.

A new diabetes pill lowered blood sugar and body weight more than oral semaglutide, but the convenience came with a harder trade-off

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