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How does a city-state with almost no natural freshwater now supply up to 40 percent of its national water demand from treated used water pushed through advanced membranes?

Singapore's Public Utilities Board says reclaimed sewage now meets up to 40 per cent of national water demand, with a target of 55 per cent by 2060 — here's how the membranes, the politics and a 1962 treaty with an expiry date got them there.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026

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Tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space, temperatures near absolute zero, and radiation doses lethal to humans, but a Penn State-led team found that the MGS-1 Mars regolith simulant killed the tested H. exemplaris freshwater specimens within two days, while a terrestrial sand control stayed active

Freshwater tardigrades survive vacuum, near-absolute-zero cold, and lethal radiation, but a Penn State team found that dry simulated Mars regolith stopped them cold within 48 hours — while a rinse of water restored them. Perchlorate salts are the leading suspect.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026
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When Howard Carter's team opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the inventory included alabaster jars of dark residue that legend turned into still-edible honey, sealed around 1323 BCE and never actually identified by any chemist who tested it — a Yale team now suspects opium

The famous story of edible honey from Tutankhamun's tomb is mostly folklore — but the chemistry that makes honey nearly immortal is real, and a 2025 Yale study suggests the actual residues in Tut's alabaster jars may have been something far stranger: opium.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 9, 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

For forty-five years the Soviet Union told the world Laika had survived days aboard Sputnik 2. In October 2002, at the World Space Congress in Houston, scientist Dimitri Malashenkov finally released the telemetry that showed she had died within hours of launch when the cabin overheated past 40 degrees Celsius.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 8, 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

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