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Kuwait Desalination Plant Blast Impacts GCC Water Security
KUWAIT CITY, July 21 — For the Gulf states that have built their modern prosperity on desalinated water,…
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James Webb Space Telescope to study planet’s atmosphere
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The James Webb Space Telescope has already rewritten the rulebook on how we study…
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Discovery by K2-33b reshapes planet formation theory
ISLAMABAD, July 21 — A newly discovered planet orbiting a small, cool star is giving astronomers a fresh…
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Astronomers sift billions of data points to find planet
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 21 — An algorithm developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has processed stellar variability…
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How the Transit Method Works: Why Some Planets Evade Detection
WASHINGTON, July 21 — A planet that dims its host star by only 0.02 percent — a signal…
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TESS and Spitzer reveal hidden exoplanet with combined power
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2026 — A planet hidden in plain sight — buried for years in data from…
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Taxonomy in the Age of AI: Species Classification Errors Grow
ROME, July 21 — The great hall of biological classification, first ordered by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus,…
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Hour-by-Hour Weather Timeline: Kota’s Wednesday from 7 AM to 9 PM
KOTA, July 21 — The official forecast for July 22, 2026, provides an hour-by-hour breakdown of expected conditions,…
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NASA’s $2B Mars mission boosts U.S. suppliers’ economy
LYNCHBURG, Va., July 21 — The $2 billion nuclear Mars mission now shaping up under the primary contractor…
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Zenithal Hourly Rate Explains Meteor Shower Intensity
ISLAMABAD, July 21 — The zenithal hourly rate, or ZHR, is a standard astronomical measure that helps scientists…
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SpaceX Starship: 12 Test Flights Mark Evolution of Fully Reusable Rocket
STARBASE, Texas, July 21 — On the flats of the Texas Gulf Coast, a stainless steel behemoth rises…
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United Nations: 104 Nations Meet Annually to Govern Space Activities
VIENNA, July 21 — The shift is unmistakable: outer space has evolved from a Cold War dueling ground…
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Starlink becomes SpaceX’s largest unit, $11.4B revenue by 2025
REDMOND, Wash., July 21 — On a quiet street in this Seattle suburb, the low-slung satellite development facility…
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Natural gas price swings drive rising US electricity rates
WASHINGTON, July 21 — In the corridors of global energy markets, a quiet but consequential shift has been…
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PJM Interconnection Supply Crunch Threatens Consumer Rates
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., July 21 — PJM Interconnection, the operator of America’s largest power grid, is facing a…
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The Strait of Hormuz: How Iran Can Threaten Global Oil Flows
MANILA, July 21 — For communities across Asia, the Strait of Hormuz is more than a line on…
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Luddites: 19th-Century Workers Who Fought Automation
NOTTINGHAM, July 21 — The word “Luddite” today often describes anyone wary of new technology, but its origins…
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Comet 96P/Machholz skirts the Sun, found by amateur in 1986
LONDON, July 21 — A comet that barely scrapes the Sun and may have arrived from another star…
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U.S. oil reserve hits 1983 low as Trump releases oil amid Iran tensions
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The underground salt caverns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, buried deep in the earth…
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OPEC Output Cuts Raise Global Oil Prices, U.S. Gasoline Impact Limited
VIENNA, July 21 — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries — better known by its acronym OPEC…
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Moderate earthquake strikes remote Mid-Indian Ridge
LONDON, July 21 — A magnitude 5 earthquake struck the Mid-Indian Ridge at 03:17 UTC on Tuesday, the…
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Southeast Asia’s oil gap drives reliance on Strait of Hormuz imports
MANILA, July 20 — For communities across Southeast Asia, the fuel that powers daily life—from motorbikes in Hanoi…
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The Artemis II Crew: Testing the Path to the Lunar Surface
HOUSTON, July 20 — Inside the high-bay simulator at Johnson Space Center, four astronauts strap in, their faces…
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Magnitude 5.2 quake shakes remote Mid-Atlantic Ridge
MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, July 21 — A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge early Tuesday morning, the…
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