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Known physics suggests the early universe should have produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. Nearly all of it annihilated into radiation, but roughly one extra matter particle survived for every billion pairs—and why that tiny imbalance existed remains one of physics’ deepest unsolved problems.
3+ min ago (906+ words) The measured net baryon-to-photon ratio is about 6.1 parts in ten billion. Physics can describe the required ingredients for that excess, but no confirmed mechanism made it....
A box turtle in Louisiana lost both back legs, so veterinarians built it a tiny wheelchair from LEGO car wheels, syringe cases and epoxy — within minutes Pedro was reversing, turning and moving around on his own again
15+ hour, 16+ min ago (232+ words) When a beloved box turtle lost his mobility, a veterinary team improvised with spare parts and rapid engineering—proving that sometimes the best solutions come from creative constraint, not cutting-edge technology....
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
17+ hour, 4+ min ago (177+ words) Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues whispering back from the edge of the solar system, defying every expectation of how long a machine can survive in the void....
Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have them, and in both of the only two adult females collected the flattened leg bases block the genital opening
1+ day, 33+ min ago (705+ words) The reduction appears to be unique in the millipede order Polydesmida, and in both known adult females the flattened leg bases sit over the vulva like a lid. More than forty adult males came out of the same litter sample, and…...
After more than 50 years, a solar telescope in New Mexico is being pulled down, after liquid mercury from the bearing that let its 250-ton optical system turn was found inside the tower. Crews found the metal on January 5.
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (575+ words) By The Daily Orbit Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the…...
Opportunity’s solar panels were mysteriously getting cleaner long before the rover ever saw the suspected culprit: it did not photograph its first Martian dust devil until six and a half years after landing.
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1267+ words) Opportunity’s changing power output recorded repeated wind-cleaning events years before its camera caught a dust devil. The six-and-a-half-year gap reveals the difference between detecting an effect and identifying its cause. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 10, 2026 · How…...
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (231+ words) A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars....
A railroad causeway built across Utah’s Great Salt Lake nearly divided it into two separate bodies of water with radically different salinity — today the north side can appear pink-purple while the south remains blue-green
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (596+ words) By Space Daily Editorial Team Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Fly over northern Utah on a clear afternoon and the water below looks like two paint tins spilled side by side and never stirred. Blue-green on one side of a…...
The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes, existing coordinates will move by as much as four meters, and the million survey marks in the ground will no longer be what the system is measured from
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (43+ words) The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system stop being accepted after January 13, 2027....
Finnish engineers packed 2,000 tonnes of crushed stone left over from making fireplaces into a giant “sand battery” — electricity heats the material, which stores enough energy to cover roughly a week of winter demand on a local heating network
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (53+ words) A Finnish village discovered that waste rock and off-peak electricity could replace expensive fossil fuels through winter, offering a low-tech alternative to battery storage that scales far beyond lithium....