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Anker SOLIX Solarbank 4 home battery connected to a residential power outlet.

Anker’s 5 kWh Solarbank 4 battery promises £398 annual savings by shifting electricity use through time, yet UK plug-in rules cover only solar panels, requiring hardwired installation by a licensed electrician

August 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Ancient Egyptian ostracon with handwritten ink inscription on pottery fragments.

The viral story of honey tasting edible from an Egyptian tomb 3,000 years later has strong chemistry but weak documentation, with the famous jar, archaeologist, and safety test remaining elusive

August 20, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid striking Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago.

A carbonaceous asteroid 10-15 kilometers wide struck Mexico’s Yucatán 66 million years ago at 64,000 km/h, and isotope analysis now pinpoints its origin beyond Jupiter as a rare CO-type meteorite

August 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
dolmen-i-la-lentejuela-archaeological-excavation

A 13-meter dolmen tomb in southern Spain preserves ivory, amber, shells, and flint from 5,000 years ago, offering context for burial customs and long-distance trade networks rather than a treasure cache

August 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Electra EL9 hybrid-electric aircraft shown in flight with eight electric propellers.

Electra plans a $850 million aircraft factory in Springfield, Ohio, to build nine-passenger electric planes, but whether the climate case holds depends on what trips actually get replaced

August 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Silver coin from Magnus Barefoot’s reign showing a griffin and cross design.

A metal detectorist found a silver coin from Magnus Barefoot’s reign, the first of its type in Norway, but it had been deliberately remade as jewelry, suggesting medieval economies shifted after coins lost value

August 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Illustration of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 passing through space near Earth.

NASA ruled out the asteroid that once had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and the reason those odds moved so sharply is not what it seems

August 18, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Close-up of an Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species tested for susceptibility to alpha-cypermethrin.

A laboratory dose of insecticide killed 97.91% of the mosquitoes that spread dengue, and the tiny fraction that survived is what has researchers in Delhi worried

August 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Hydrothermal formations at the Lost City field deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

Scientists drilled 4,160 feet into the Atlantic seafloor and found water with a chemical fingerprint of 572°F heating, a clue to how Lost City’s rare alkaline vents survive

August 17, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Humpback whale with her newborn calf off Kingscliff, Australia

A wildlife photographer captured a humpback whale giving birth, a moment so rare and raw that no aerial footage existed before

August 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Ancient hominin footprints preserved across a fossil track surface near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Eight hominins crossed the same muddy shore 1.43 million years ago, their footprints a rare window into ancient company and movement

August 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto just once in 2015, but more than a decade later scientists returned to its old images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed across the frozen surface

NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto just once in 2015, but more than a decade later scientists returned to its old images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed across the frozen surface

August 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
A Byzantine ship that had been sunk at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea for more than 1,300 years was discovered, and after recovering its 600 grams of gold, archaeologists realized that it was likely not carrying just any passengers

A Byzantine ship that had been sunk at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea for more than 1,300 years was discovered, and after recovering its 600 grams of gold, archaeologists realized that it was likely not carrying just any passengers

August 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM
567-million-year-old fossil site in Canada where early animals lived and moved across the seafloor

Scientists have discovered fossils of creatures that lived 567 million years ago in remote mountains in Canada, and some of them were already capable of moving across the seafloor even though they didn’t even have mouths

August 9, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Man excavating the forest floor where a 2,700-year-old bronze sword was found in Poland

A man was searching for objects with his metal detector in a forest in Poland when he found a 2,700-year-old sword, and as soon as he saw it, he realized it was best not to dig it up

August 9, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Mouse performing a touchscreen selective attention task used to study how the brain filters visual distractions.

Silencing ancient brainstem neurons made mice far more distractible, the first evidence that evolution kept an old attention circuit alongside newer brain systems

August 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Natural-color view of crescent Mars captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft during its May 2026 gravity-assist flyby.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft borrowed Mars’ gravity in May 2026, gaining a thousand miles per hour and testing instruments built to study a metal-rich asteroid

August 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Illustration of Earth's molten outer core with ESA Swarm satellites monitoring changes in the planet's magnetic field.

Around 2010, iron-rich liquid beneath the Pacific switched direction inside Earth’s outer core, a reversal that peaked then weakened again by 2020

August 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Researchers operating a neutron scattering instrument used to detect deep quantum entanglement inside a strange metal crystal.

Nine quantum components act together in a strange metal sample, showing how a solid you could hold reveals the hidden teamwork of the quantum world

August 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Fragmented stone stele linked to Assyrian King Ashurbanipal during excavation at the Shamash Gate in ancient Nineveh, Iraq.

A carved monument tied to Assyrian King Ashurbanipal has been recovered at Bab Shamash, with royal images and cuneiform writing preserved on the stone stele

August 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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