Solar Daily
July 2026
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How does a spacecraft launched in 1977, now more than 24 billion kilometres away, still transmit data back to Earth on roughly the power of a hallway light bulb?
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Lithium-ion battery electrodes can now be regenerated to about 95 percent of original capacity in an electrochemical bath that skips shredding, smelting, and acid leaching entirely, treating a dead cell more like a rechargeable one than a bag of scrap metal
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In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under his hand-ground microscope, saw tiny empty chambers that reminded him of monks' rooms, and named them cells in a folio so lavish that Samuel Pepys stayed up until two in the morning reading it
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Sunlight striking a rooftop panel takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to arrive from the Sun, but the photons themselves spent roughly 100,000 years bouncing through the Sun's dense interior before reaching its surface
Psychology
Psychology says the happiest people over 70 don't actually "stay young" — they've learned to stop measuring their worth against a version of themselves that no longer exists
Psychology
Loneliness researchers keep arriving at the same uncomfortable result: the physical cost of feeling unseen tracks closer to smoking than to any social variable anyone expected, and it shows up most clearly in people who are surrounded by others all day long
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What happened when a Central Asian inland sea, once the fourth largest lake on Earth, was cut off from its rivers and shrank to a tenth of its volume, and why is the northern lobe now rising again?
Solar Science
The Sun might look yellow, but seen from space without an atmosphere filtering its light, the Sun is actually white — and the yellow colour we see from Earth is the result of our atmosphere scattering blue light
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