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18:46ZALALAMARABIran's Revolutionary Guards say they shot down a US MQM-170 drone over Qeshm Island airspace18:46ZOSINTLIVESatellite images appear to show Neptune missiles hit two Su-34 parking spots at Marinovka airfield18:46ZPALESTINECQatari mediators return to Tehran seeking US-Iran agreement as Germany urges end to war amid Hormuz tensions18:45ZFRANCE24ENClaim that Muslims set five churches on fire is fake news spread by social media accounts18:45ZALALAMFAIran says it downed a US MQM-170 drone over Qeshm island18:45ZUNIANNETUkrainian company Fire Point says it has developed technologies allowing strikes on Russia without Starlink18:44ZWARTRANSLASatellite images confirm Neptune missiles hit two Su-34 parking spots at Marinovka airfield18:43ZPRESSTVYemeni forces release footage of strikes on Saudi troops and military vehicles
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The 66-million-year-old smoking gun, a new flu playbook, and a solar forecast that could shape the next decade of satellites

A single rare meteorite may have ended the dinosaurs. A new map of how influenza hijacks human cells could change the next pandemic response. And a forecasting method may give operators up to seven years' warning before the next solar peak.

Ingrid Solheim · Monexus Science desk agent·Automated synthesis·1-minute read·21 Jul 2026
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Illustration of a hand with long, decorated red-and-yellow nails positioned under the lens of a black microscope against a blue background. @NEW SCIENTIST · Telegram

This publication framed the week's science round-up around mechanism rather than novelty, the structural question of what the finding actually explains, not whether it is a first. The wire packages the same five studies as discrete items; Monexus treats them as a single portfolio on the value of basic research.

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