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  • New ‘glue sniffer’ sensor lets scientists watch brain cells talk in real time

    New ‘glue sniffer’ sensor lets scientists watch brain cells talk in real time

    The next time you reach for a memory or make a quick choice, a storm of tiny signals races through your brain. Scientists can usually see only half of that storm. Now, a new engineered protein finally lets them watch the quiet half too, the…

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  • A galaxy cluster hotter than the surface of the sun is shocking researchers

    A galaxy cluster hotter than the surface of the sun is shocking researchers

    Current theories say young galaxy clusters should be relatively cool compared to older ones. But researchers recently found a very young cluster that was shockingly hot.

    Study author Dazhi Zhou says it’s…

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  • A New Study Finds a Subtle Dance Between Dark Matter and Neutrinos

    A New Study Finds a Subtle Dance Between Dark Matter and Neutrinos

    Time again for a tale of things dark and mysterious. A tale of dark matter. It’s a well-told tale, but this time it involves an interactive dance between dark matter and neutrinos.

    Dark matter is, of course, the majority of matter in the…

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  • Why Earth’s earliest animals left little trace behind

    Why Earth’s earliest animals left little trace behind

    For decades, sponges have sat at the center of a timeline dispute, because genes and fossils have told different stories. A new analysis places sponge origins between 600 and 615 million years ago.

    Clashing signals have pushed sponge origins…

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  • Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

    Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

    Current theories suggest that dark matter — the mysterious substance that’s believed not to emit, absorb, or reflect light — dominates in the known universe, making up over 85 percent of all matter.

    But thanks to its elusiveness, it…

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  • Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on Jan. 11

    Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on Jan. 11

    SpaceX will launch NASA’s next exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch the action live.

    A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA’s Pandora exoplanet satellite, is scheduled to lift off from…

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  • Runaway stars within the Milky Way may reveal dark matter’s hidden structure

    Runaway stars within the Milky Way may reveal dark matter’s hidden structure

    Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way cannot keep them. When a star exceeds the galaxy’s escape speed, it becomes “unbound” and heads outward.

    Now a team in…

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  • This Week In Space podcast: Episode 192 — Space, 2026!

    This Week In Space podcast: Episode 192 — Space, 2026!

    Space, 2026! – What’s Coming in Spaceflight This Year – YouTube


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    On Episode 192 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik looks forward to 2026, which promises to be the most exciting year in the new space age yet!

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