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ScienceMost people alive today will live to see the Arctic Ocean lose its summer ice — for the first time since before our species left Africa, 115,000 years ago The Arctic Ocean has had ice on it, in some form, for essentially the entire span of recognisably modern human existence. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

ScienceBy 2025, a 4,800-year-old bristlecone pine named Methuselah in California's White Mountains remained the oldest known non-clonal living tree, and the exact location of the gnarled, wind-stunted survivor is kept secret by the US Forest Service to protect it from vandals and souvenir hunters. Methuselah, a Great Basin bristlecone pine clinging to a limestone slope above 10,000 feet in California's White Mountains, was confirmed at roughly 4,855 years old as of 2025, making it the oldest known non-clonal living organism on Earth. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

Mind & MeaningA self-taught Russian amateur astronomer named Filipp Romanov has been finding asteroids that NASA-funded sky-surveys missed — including a near-Earth asteroid he spotted in February 2026 before any of the professional systems noticed it — working from a village on Russia's Sea of Japan coast, and naming each new asteroid he finds after one of his great-grandparents The discovery happened on a Sunday evening. On 15 February 2026, Filipp Romanov was at his laptop in his grandparents' old house in… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

Mind & MeaningA 43,000-year-old stone roughly the size of a potato, found in a rock shelter in central Spain, was confirmed in 2025 to bear a single red-ochre fingerprint in its centre — placed deliberately by a Neanderthal so that the rest of the stone resembled a face — making it one of the oldest known examples of human-like abstract thinking in the prehistoric record, by a species many people still imagine as incapable of art The story of the stone begins, like many archaeological stories, with a moment of mild astonishment at the bottom of an excavation trench. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

ScienceBeneath the streets of Naples lies a 2,400-year-old network of Greek and Roman tunnels and cisterns carved into soft volcanic tuff, and during World War II tens of thousands of residents sheltered in the same hollow chambers their ancestors had dug to quarry building stone. Forty meters below the cobblestones of Via Toledo, in a chamber the Neapolitans call the Bourbon Tunnel, the air still smells faintly of damp tuff and rust. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026