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First Safety-Certified Plug-In Solar Microinverter Now Available to US Renters

Hoymiles released the HiFlow Pro microinverter last week, the first US product to conform to the UL 3700 national safety standard adopted in December 2025.

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Firefighting Drones Begin Field Tests as US Wildfire Season Extends Year Round

CAL FIRE ran a July 15 test in which five autonomous drones deployed up to 1,000 gallons of foam combined to suppress fires in California.

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Astronomers Propose Little Red Dots Are Early Forms of Globular Clusters

A University of Texas study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters links two long-standing cosmic mysteries through a single theory involving supermassive stars.

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Scientists Discover Single-Celled Organism That Navigates Using Magnetic Bacteria Partners

A newly identified ciliate found in Gabon river sediments hosts two bacterial partners inside its cell, giving it the ability to orient itself using Earth's magnetic field.

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Travel Agents Gain New Relevance as Geopolitical Uncertainty Disrupts Vacation Planning

Research on tourism suggests that when disruption is likely, travelers increasingly turn to trusted intermediaries rather than booking trips on their own.

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Space-Based AI Data Centers Face Serious Environmental Cost Questions

A petition from environmental law charity Earthjustice is calling for a comprehensive federal review of proposals to launch AI data centers into orbit.

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India's First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit on Its Debut Flight

Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 lifted off from Sriharikota Island and climbed to a 280-mile orbit early Saturday morning.

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Scientists Find New Method to Predict Solar Activity Seven Years Out

A team at the University of Warwick identified a sudden "switch-off" point in each solar cycle that links directly to the strength of the next one.

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Hunter-Gatherers Stocked Norwegian Mountain Lake With Trout 7,000 Years Ago

Radiocarbon dating of wooden fish traps found at Lake Tesse places the introduction of brown trout to around 5000 B.C., centuries before farming reached Scandinavia.

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Mosquito Species Expanding North as Climate Change Alters Disease Risk

Connecticut's statewide monitoring program has detected 54 mosquito species, including the Asian tiger mosquito, which can transmit dengue and Zika and historically lived in warmer climates farther south.

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Plants Produce Milk Protein in Unexpected Location Inside Seed Cells

Researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem engineered Arabidopsis seeds to manufacture bovine beta-casein, finding it stored in unrecognized protein-oil structures rather than the expected vacuoles.

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Medieval Wild Boar Tusk Found in Russia Identified as Warrior Amulet

The artifact, dating to between the mid-12th and early 13th century, was mounted with an engraved tin-lead alloy cap designed to imitate silver.

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