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September 2026

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In November 1957, Soviet sources told the world that the dog Laika had survived several days aboard Sputnik 2, but at a 2002 space congress in Houston, scientist Dimitri Malashenkov revealed she had actually died within hours of launch when the cabin overheated

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026

Flora And Fauna

What happened when a Mediterranean national park watched its shallow marshes dry out while illegal wells fed a strawberry industry next door, and why did the European Court finally intervene?

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 2, 2026

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

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026

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

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026