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

Mars has no plate tectonics, so its largest volcano has spent billions of years piling lava on the same spot instead of drifting off its heat source the way Hawaii does.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Sep 1, 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
Earth Observation

What happened when conservationists cleared rats, stoats and possums from a scattering of small offshore islands, and why did bird species thought to be functionally extinct start breeding again within a few seasons?

When conservationists cleared rats, stoats and possums from small offshore islands off New Zealand, ground-nesting birds thought to be functionally extinct began breeding within a few seasons — because the pressure keeping them out simply stopped.

By Nuclear Power Daily Editorial Team · Aug 18, 2026

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