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On 31 January 1958, Explorer 1, America’s first satellite, began returning a baffling pattern from its Geiger counter: ordinary cosmic-ray counts followed by unexplained zeros. Van Allen’s team suspected the instrument was not failing but saturating under radiation too intense to register; two months later, Explorer 3’s complete recordings confirmed that the apparent silence marked a vast radiation belt surrounding Earth—the first of the belts now bearing Van Allen’s name.
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (515+ words) Explorer 1’s zero counts proved to be detector overload, and Explorer 3’s continuous record exposed the first of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts....
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
4+ day, 8+ 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....
MIT engineers made water filters from slices of tree branches that removed more than 99% of E. coli and rotavirus in lab tests — after trials in India, the team designed a gravity-fed prototype that could filter a liter of water an hour
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (496+ words) As water crises worsen in developing nations, MIT researchers discovered that nature had already engineered the solution—hidden inside tree branches that cost nearly nothing to harvest....
Australian scientists extracted an enzyme from soil bacteria that produces electricity using traces of hydrogen in the air — it still worked after freezing or heating to 80°C, opening a possible route to small air-powered devices
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (621+ words) Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Scrape up a teaspoon of garden soil and you are holding several billion bacteria, and a fair few of them are quietly running on nothing but air. The habit is widespread and consequential. Soil microbes…...
Cambridge researchers kept a computer chip running for a year using blue-green algae in a container about the size of an AA battery — the living power source harvested energy from light and continued supplying electricity through periods of darkness
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (46+ words) Living organisms just proved they can power our devices—without batteries, charging cables, or human intervention....
A Japanese rail company installed piezoelectric tiles beneath busy ticket gates at Tokyo Station, turning thousands of commuters’ footsteps into electricity every day — with each step helping generate power simply by pressing on the floor
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (553+ words) The footfalls of millions of commuters could be harnessed as an untapped energy source—if engineers can figure out how to make people's daily routines profitable. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit For a couple of winters in the 2000s, the floor…...
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
5+ day, 7+ 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…...
A protein that makes jellyfish glow was repurposed by researchers in Sweden as the light-harvesting material in a tiny solar cell — when exposed to UV light, it generated an electrical current
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (27+ words) Shine ultraviolet light on a droplet of glowing jellyfish protein and, for a moment, it stops behaving like biology and starts behaving like a solar cell. An...
In 1996, astronauts paid out 19.7 kilometres of cable from the shuttle Columbia to test electricity generation in orbit — the system reached 3,500 volts before an electrical arc burned through the tether and sent the satellite drifting away from its ship.
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (673+ words) Columbia’s TSS-1R experiment deployed 19.7 kilometres of tether before electrical arcing caused a break. The lost satellite still left useful data about electricity generation in orbit....
In 1965, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory launched LES-1, which stopped transmitting two years later — but in 2012 amateurs heard it again at 237 MHz, and its builders now record the old satellite as it passes overhead in sunlight, using a rooftop antenna.
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (968+ words) After decades of silence, LES-1 was heard again in 2012. Lincoln Laboratory now records its sunlight-powered radio tone from a rooftop antenna. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit LES-1 stopped transmitting after two years of…...