Moon Daily Massachusetts is debating a $400 million state fund to shore up university science as federal grant timing turns unpredictable By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026
Nano Tech A new Shanghai coating absorbs roughly 99.9% of visible light and could make cars look like flat silhouettes By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026
Moon Daily The Trump administration's proposed rewrite of the Uniform Guidance would require political appointees to review every discretionary federal grant for alignment with presidential priorities, turning peer-review panels of scientists into advisory bodies that agency officials could override at will By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 17, 2026
Physics News At Fermilab near Chicago, physicists raced muons around the same magnetic ring first used at Brookhaven in the late 1990s and, with more than double the 2023 data, confirmed the tiny particles still wobble in a way the Standard Model could not fully explain By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 14, 2026
Terradaily If nothing changes, the world is projected to generate enough mismanaged plastic waste between 2010 and 2050 to build a pile the size of Manhattan and 10 times the height of the Empire State Building, while most annual plastic waste will still go to landfills or incinerators By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026
Space Scopes Ten years after LIGO's first detection, the collaboration has now heard the clearest evidence for Stephen Hawking's 1971 theorem that merging black holes must grow, not shrink, their combined surface area even as energy pours away as gravitational waves By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 9, 2026
Early Earth Pyrenean archaeologists long assumed sites above 2,000 metres were only used briefly in passing, but Cova 338 at 2,235 metres held 23 hearths and malachite fragments showing repeated planned occupation from the 5th to the 1st millennium BCE By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026
Climate Science Climate models of the last 6,000 years generally show Earth gradually warming, but sediments, tree rings and corals from the same period generally show it gradually cooling — a contradiction paleoclimatologists have been arguing about for more than a decade By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026
South America Chile's regional planning document lists a target date of 2035 for a buried tunnel under the Strait of Magellan's Primera Angostura, a 3.7-kilometre crossing where ferries between Punta Delgada and Bahía Azul are routinely stopped by wind and waves By Moon Daily Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026