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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say Pentagon Made Them Fend for Themselves Project Maven

Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say Pentagon Made Them Fend for Themselves

In the early hours of President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran, Tehran targeted a makeshift tactical operations center in Kuwait, killing six U.S. military personnel and injuring more than 30 others. Not only did the Department of Defense fail to provide the personnel stationed there with the necessary tools…
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October 6, 2026
Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics Antarctica

Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics

A portrait of Francis Halzen is shown on the screen as Eva Olsson, Ellen Moons, and Mark Pearce announce as the recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 2026. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via…
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October 6, 2026
Almost 1 in 4 new car sales in Australia were EVs during September, no signs of slowing down Tesla

Almost 1 in 4 new car sales in Australia were EVs during September, no signs of slowing down

For the past couple of years, sceptics have claimed that electric vehicle adoption in Australia had peaked. The narrative was that early adopters had bought their cars, demand was cooling off, and everyday drivers would stick with internal combustion. The official sales data for September 2026 tells a completely different…
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October 6, 2026
The ozone layer was supposed to be healing. So why is this year’s Antarctic ozone hole so big? Antarctica

The ozone layer was supposed to be healing. So why is this year’s Antarctic ozone hole so big?

On Sept. 20, the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at 10.6 million square miles (27.4 million square kilometers), the second-largest size ever observed for this time of the year. The last time the ozone hole was this big was in October 2015, when it reached a whopping 10.8 million square miles…
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October 6, 2026
Could electricity reveal alien life? Scientists develop a new detection method Space Debris

Could electricity reveal alien life? Scientists develop a new detection method

For decades, scientists have hunted for signs of life in space by chasing elusive “biosignatures“, chemical clues that might reveal whether something is alive. But designing instruments sensitive enough to detect these signals, while compact enough to fit on spacecraft, has been a stubborn challenge. The University of Osaka has…
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October 6, 2026