Author: Space Daily

The highest mountain on Earth is not the closest mountain to outer space — because the planet bulges outward at the equator, the summit of a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits farther from the center of the Earth than Mount Everest does, even though Everest is much taller

Posted by Space Daily | Jul 7, 2026 | Climate, NATURE | 0

The specific highest point on the planet Earth, measured by the standard elevation metric of...

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The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen — not the rainforest, which uses up most of what it makes — through photosynthesis by phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms so abundant that a single teaspoon of seawater can contain as many as a million of them.

Posted by Space Daily | Jun 24, 2026 | Climate, NATURE | 0

About half of the oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean. Not from the rainforests, which consume...

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The smell that fills the air during the first rainfall after a dry spell is called petrichor, and it comes from plant oils, soil bacteria, and a molecule the human nose can detect at almost unbelievable concentrations

Posted by Space Daily | Jun 11, 2026 | Climate, NATURE | 0

Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Thomas, two researchers working at the Commonwealth Scientific and...

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The danger now is not only that the planet is warming, but that the pace of human-driven warming is accelerating — quietly bringing forward the climate deadlines many people assumed were still years away.

Posted by Space Daily | Jun 9, 2026 | Climate, CLIMATE CHANGE | 0

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March 2026 argues that the rate of global...

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Honeybees can recognize human faces — they can be trained to distinguish between individual humans by face and continue to recognize them across different viewpoints, despite having a brain smaller than the head of a pin

Posted by Space Daily | Jun 2, 2026 | Climate, NATURE | 0

The standard popular framing of human facial recognition treats it as a problem so complex that...

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