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Climate Science

How did a solar storm in 1859 send currents surging through telegraph wires so strong that operators reported sparks jumping from their equipment and messages transmitting even after the batteries were disconnected?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026

Climate Science

Margaret Hamilton wrote the Apollo 11 guidance software so defensively that when the lunar module's computer flashed 1202 and 1201 alarms during Armstrong's descent, the system automatically shed low-priority tasks and kept the landing radar running, buying the crew the seconds they needed to touch down with 25 seconds of fuel left.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 9, 2026

Climate Science

What happened when a low-lying European country shifted from higher river dikes to giving floodwater more room at 30 locations over 13 years?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 7, 2026

Marsdaily

At the equator on a Martian summer afternoon, temperatures can reach a tolerable 20°C — but the moment the sun sets, the near-absent atmosphere bleeds the heat away and the surface drops to −84°C by morning, a daily swing no unprotected human body could survive.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 7, 2026

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Between five and six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried out — and when Atlantic water finally broke back in near Gibraltar, one model suggests the basin may have refilled so violently that sea level rose by metres a day

By Brendan Brown · Aug 6, 2026

Climate Science

How does a spacecraft launched in 1977, now more than 25 billion kilometres from home, still transmit data back to Earth on less power than a household hallway bulb?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 5, 2026

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2026 6,131 articles

2025 3,428 articles

2024 4,308 articles

2023 4,330 articles

2022 4,114 articles

2021 4,530 articles

2020 4,319 articles

2019 4,198 articles

2018 4,408 articles

2017 4,527 articles

2016 4,736 articles

2015 5,258 articles

2014 5,267 articles

2013 6,233 articles

2012 6,475 articles

2011 7,406 articles

2010 6,201 articles

2009 5,517 articles

2008 4,284 articles

2007 2,736 articles

2006 3,048 articles

2005 2,073 articles

2004 436 articles

2003 301 articles

2002 315 articles

2001 190 articles

2000 35 articles

1999 2 articles

1997 4 articles

September 1997 (4)

1991 1 articles

June 1991 (1)

42 2 articles

November 42 (2)