Science
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A wildlife photographer captured a humpback whale giving birth, a moment so rare and raw that no aerial footage existed before
Eight hominins crossed the same muddy shore 1.43 million years ago, their footprints a rare window into ancient company and movement
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
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
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
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
Silencing ancient brainstem neurons made mice far more distractible, the first evidence that evolution kept an old attention circuit alongside newer brain systems
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








