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Olympus Mons keeps growing because Mars has no plate tectonics to drift its crust off the hotspot feeding it lava

Mars has no plate tectonics, so its largest volcano has spent billions of years piling lava on the same spot instead of drifting off its heat source the way Hawaii does.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026

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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to two scientists who had figured out how to reprogram a bacterial defence system against viruses into a pair of molecular scissors that can cut the DNA of any living organism with programmable precision

In October 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna became the first all-female team to share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, honored for turning a bacterial defense against viruses into CRISPR-Cas9 — programmable molecular scissors that can cut the DNA of any organism on Earth.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026
Earth Observation

What happened when conservationists cleared rats, stoats and possums from a scattering of small offshore islands, and why did bird species thought to be functionally extinct start breeding again within a few seasons?

When conservationists cleared rats, stoats and possums from small offshore islands off New Zealand, ground-nesting birds thought to be functionally extinct began breeding within a few seasons — because the pressure keeping them out simply stopped.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Aug 18, 2026
Wood Pile

How did a Central American country smaller than West Virginia go from one of the worst deforestation rates on Earth to doubling its forest cover in a single generation, and what did it pay landowners to make it happen?

Costa Rica's forest cover collapsed to 21 percent by 1987, then rebounded to about 59 percent by the early 2020s. A 1996 forestry law and a 1997 payment program funded largely by a fuel-tax slice — administered by FONAFIFO — paid landowners to keep trees standing.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Aug 13, 2026
Froth And Bubble

People who keep every birthday card, ticket stub, and handwritten note aren't sentimental hoarders — they're often trying to prove to themselves that the years actually happened and weren't just something they survived on autopilot

The drawer full of birthday cards and ticket stubs isn't clutter. Research on memory and nostalgia suggests it's a deliberate act of self-preservation against a mind that edits the past without permission.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026

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