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Editorial Team

Mars Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Mars Daily Editorial Team produces Mars Daily's coverage of Mars exploration and science. We report on rovers and orbiters, sample-return and human-Mars planning, and the geology, atmosphere and astrobiology of the Red Planet. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Mars Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

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Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson, who died this year at 92 and was the first Black woman on Trinity College Hartford’s faculty, spent decades gathering a personal archive of oil paintings, photographs and oral histories, and Yale’s Beinecke had been helping her decide what to save

At 89, Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson — the first Black woman on Trinity College Hartford's faculty — is sorting decades of oil paintings, photographs, and oral histories with help from Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Sep 21, 2026
Water World

What happened when a US state passed its first serious groundwater law in 2014, after decades of farm wells pulling aquifers down so fast that the ground itself sank by tens of centimetres a year in places?

California's 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was the first statewide rule on well pumping in the state's history, passed after drought-era overdraft dropped the San Joaquin Valley floor by up to a foot a year. Twelve years in, the plans are being rejected, the lawsuits are stacking up, and the ground is still sinking.

Sep 21, 2026
Bio Fuel

We tend to think wet biomass has to be dried before it can become fuel, but a Korean team showed the water trapped inside coffee grounds can itself drive the reaction, vaporising under plasma flames and rupturing each particle in microscopic explosions they call the popcorn effect

A Korean research team at KIGAM has shown that the water trapped inside wet spent coffee grounds can drive their own conversion into anthracite-grade fuel in about 90 seconds, using plasma flames that make each particle burst open like popcorn.

Sep 21, 2026
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In 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase put a kitchen Waring blender to work at Cold Spring Harbor, spinning virus-infected bacteria fast enough to shear off the protein coats while leaving the injected DNA inside, and settled a decades-long argument by showing that genes are made of nucleic acid, not protein

In the summer of 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase used a $40 Waring kitchen blender at Cold Spring Harbor to strip virus coats off infected bacteria — and helped tip a decades-long argument toward DNA, not protein, as the molecule of heredity.

Sep 14, 2026
Aerospace

On 12 August 2026, Heart Aerospace’s X1 lifted off from Plattsburgh, New York, weighing more than 25,000 pounds with a 106-foot wingspan, and flew for 27 minutes on roughly $5 of electricity — the largest battery-electric aircraft ever to leave the ground

Heart Aerospace's X1 demonstrator, a 25,000-pound battery-electric aircraft with a 106-foot wingspan, flew for 27 minutes on roughly $5 of electricity — proving megawatt-scale electric propulsion works at commercial airliner size.

Sep 10, 2026
Space Scopes

On 14 April, the 5,000 fibre-optic eyes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument locked onto a patch of sky near the Little Dipper and completed the largest high-resolution 3D map of the universe ever made, tracing dark energy’s pull across 11 billion years of cosmic history

On 14 April 2026, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at Kitt Peak finished the largest high-resolution 3D map of the universe ever made, cataloguing more than 47 million galaxies and quasars and tracing dark energy's pull across 11 billion years of cosmic history.

Sep 9, 2026
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A new University at Buffalo study found Americans generate similar amounts of plastic packaging waste regardless of income or education, yet wealthier and more college-educated communities recycle far more of it, pointing to unequal access to recycling infrastructure rather than personal habit

A University at Buffalo team mapped 419 recycling facilities against 130 million U.S. buildings and found that plastic waste generation is nearly constant across income and education — but recycling access is not. The finding reframes plastic pollution as an infrastructure gap, not a habit gap.

Sep 1, 2026