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Chinese team operates perovskite solar farm submerged at 10 metres
A team from Yunnan University built and tested the first reported submarine solar farm, operating perovskite photovoltaic modules at 10 metres in the…
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China launches nine satellites with Lijian-1
China successfully launched nine satellites aboard the Lijian-1 Y18 rocket from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone at 12:03 local…
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Researchers find Y chromosome loss marks tissue near cancers
Researchers at the University of Arizona used fluorescence in situ hybridisation to count X and Y chromosomes in more than 4.3 million cell nuclei…
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Climate change helped trigger Himalayan glacier collapse
A World Weather Attribution analysis found decades of warming, glacier thinning and permafrost thaw set the stage for a massive rock and ice collapse…
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Researchers identify new wild cat species in Bolivia
Researchers have identified a previously unknown small wild cat species, the tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo), from Bolivia's cloud forests after…
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Oil slicks spread in Strait of Hormuz after tanker attacks
Satellite images and open-source researchers have identified multiple oil slicks in the Strait of Hormuz after tankers were struck, set on fire or…
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Satellite finds largest newly formed crater in solar system
Imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed a newly formed lunar crater named McGetchin that appeared between April 11 and May 22…
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IWMI project recharges Islamabad groundwater, reduces flooding
IWMI demonstrated a groundwater recharge pilot at Kachnar Park, Islamabad, where a monitored system captured more than 566,000 litres of rainwater…
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Astronomers confirm youngest planet Elias 2-24 b
Astronomers used NASA-funded archival observations to confirm Elias 2-24 b, a planet under one million years old and the youngest known, orbiting the…
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SpaceX to launch Starship to orbit with Starlink satellites
SpaceX will attempt the first orbital flight of its reusable Starship with a launch window opening at 7.15am CDT on 22 September from Starbase…
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Salk tests deeper-rooted crops to store carbon
Scientists at the Salk Institute used genomic data and gene edits to create soybeans and other crops with deeper, larger root systems and are now…
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Anthropic opens wet lab for physical biology work
Anthropic has quietly set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area to perform real-world biology experiments, confirmed by head of life sciences…
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Hyundai invests in Commonwealth Fusion Systems to aid commercial fusion scale-up
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is assembling the SPARC fusion demonstration device in Devens and pursuing a commercial ARC power plant program after a…
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WMO warns global freshwater storage is declining
The World Meteorological Organization's State of Global Water Resources 2025 report, released on September 17, finds the global water cycle is…
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Stanford team turns research papers into interactive AI agents
A Stanford Medicine team led by Jiacheng Miao and James Zou developed Paper2Agent, an AI system that transforms full manuscripts — including text…
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have lost 12.5 trillion tonnes
A major scientific study finds about 12.5 trillion tonnes of ice have melted from Greenland and Antarctica since 1979, turning into nearly 3…
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Fossil fuel pollution is disrupting the global water cycle
The World Meteorological Organization's State of Global Water Resources report for 2025 finds the water cycle growing more erratic as fossil fuel…
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Hainan builds aerospace cluster to diversify island economy
Hainan is expanding a coastal aerospace cluster around the Wenchang launch sites to shift its economy beyond tourism. Since the commercial site's…
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Scientists find large recent crater on moon
Researchers identified a steep-sided crater roughly 728 feet across and up to 141 feet deep that formed about two years ago on the moon's near side…
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Google backs Terradot Brazil rock-weathering project
Google has agreed its biggest carbon-removal deal, backing a Terradot project in Brazil that combines methane abatement from rice paddies with…
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SpaceX launches Starship on extended orbital test
SpaceX plans the 14th test launch of Starship on the 22nd from its Starbase facility in Texas, with liftoff scheduled at 7:15 a.m. local time. The…
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LZ experiment records single unexplained event possibly from dark matter
Researchers with the LZ Project presented a single unexplained interaction recorded in a 10 metric ton liquid xenon detector buried about a mile…
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SpaceX targets Sept. 22 for Starship orbital flight
SpaceX announced Sept. 22 as the target date for Starship's first orbital flight from its Starbase site in South Texas, with a 75-minute launch…
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ATLAS detects entanglement in Higgs decay involving virtual Z boson
The ATLAS Collaboration analyzed combined Run 2 and Run 3 LHC data and extracted spin-density matrix elements from roughly 400 Higgs→ZZ*→4ℓ decays…
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