Daniel Moran
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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered over Chile in July 2025, may be more than 7.6 billion years old — roughly 3 billion years older than our solar system — and its speed and trajectory suggest it came from the Milky Way’s ancient thick-disk population, making it a possible relic of a planeta (opens the original)
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A half-metre telescope in the Chilean hills caught it during a routine sweep, a faint smudge moving far too quickly to be a local. That smudge became 3I/ATLAS, picked up on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey at Rio Hurtado, only the third object ever seen entering the solar system from outside it. The previous two, ‘Oumuamua in 2017 and Borisov in 2019, prompted little argument about their age. This one arrived at roughly 58 kilometres per second, on a path tilted well out of the flat plane where t
The EU changed the design of billions of everyday drink containers by requiring their plastic caps to stay attached — loose caps were turning up in nature two to three times more often than the bottles themselves (opens the original)
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That little plastic flap smacking you in the nose halfway through a drink? Somebody legislated it. Since 3 July 2024, every single-use plastic drink container up to three litres sold in the European Union has to keep hold of its cap. Article 6 of the Single-Use Plastics Directive lets these products onto the market only if the cap stays physically attached while the drink is being used. Metal caps with plastic seals are exempt. Everything else got redesigned, across billions of containers a year
Off Hawaii, warm surface water sits above ocean water roughly 20°C colder, enough of a temperature difference to run a heat engine — engineers first generated net electricity from that contrast there in 1979 (opens the original)
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Two kilometres off the Kona coast on an August morning in 1979, a converted US Navy barge with a plastic pipe dangling 670 metres into the dark made ten kilowatts of electricity out of nothing but the temperature of the water. No fuel, no combustion. Warm water on one side, cold water on the other, and a gap of a bit over twenty degrees between them doing the entire job. Every heat engine needs a hot side and a cold side, and the tropical ocean stocks both at the same address. Surface water off
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