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Beginning in 1960, two teachers and their pupils at Kettering Grammar School tracked Soviet spacecraft using a war-surplus radio receiver. In 1966, the unusual orbits of Kosmos 112 and later satellites allowed them to pinpoint a secret launch site at Plesetsk, roughly 800 kilometres north of Moscow—17 years before the Soviet Union officially acknowledged the cosmodrome existed.
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (482+ words) A school satellite-tracking group used surplus radio equipment and intersecting orbital ground tracks to place the Soviet Union’s hidden Plesetsk launch site on the public map....
From 1974 to 1990 Kumamoto Prefecture sealed about 1.5 million cubic metres of Minamata Bay sediment above 25 ppm mercury under a 58-hectare landfill that cost 48 billion yen
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (26+ words) Stand on the eastern shore of Minamata Bay today and part of the ground underfoot is manufactured: 58 hectares of reclaimed land, capped with mountain soil,...
In 1995 New Zealand's kākāpō recovery programme began with 51 birds, 20 of them females; on 1 September 2026 DOC added 90 chicks from one season, lifting the official count to 325
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (141+ words) In 1995, the entire known kākāpō population fit into a single ledger line: 51 birds, 31 males and 20 females, spread across offshore islands where...
The torch of the Statue of Liberty has been closed to the public since 1916, when German saboteurs blew up a munitions depot nearby and shrapnel tore into the statue's arm — in the 110 years since, no visitor has been allowed back up the ladder
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (31+ words) A century-old act of sabotage still keeps visitors from reaching the Statue of Liberty's highest point, a restriction so obscure that most Americans don't know it exists....
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, 14+ 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....
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, 20+ 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....
Only two northern white rhinos are left, a mother and daughter who cannot carry a calf, and after 39 laboratory embryos and six transfers into surrogate mothers not one of the attempts has held
3+ day, 32+ min ago (622+ words) Thirty-nine pure northern white rhino embryos have been produced, and as of April 2026 six of them had gone into southern white rhino surrogates in Kenya without producing a lasting pregnancy. Every recent egg collection has come from one animal, a…...
Bacteria living around the roots of rice plants can generate a tiny electrical current as they feed, and scientists in Bangladesh have tested the phenomenon in working paddy soil — producing electricity without reducing the rice harvest
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (232+ words) A team in Bangladesh has harnessed bacteria's hunger to generate electricity from rice paddies, proving that farming's oldest staple can double as a power source without sacrificing yield. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere under a flooded paddy, bacteria are…...
The world’s oceans have hit record temperatures, the Associated Press reports, with long-run climate warming and an El Niño arriving together so the background trend and the cyclical spike are stacked on the same water
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (20+ words) When a climate cycle and a warming trend collide, oceans pay the price—and scientists worry about what comes next....
A survivor pulled from Nepal’s flood debris after 10 days told rescuers he believes others are still alive, FOX 9 reports — a claim that pushes the operation back from recovery to rescue
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (267+ words) One survivor's conviction that others endure in the tunnel has transformed the operation from grim certainty into desperate possibility, reshaping every decision rescuers must make in the next critical hours. By Deep Field · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How…...