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NASA's selection includes a lunar occultation of Jupiter, two meteor showers and a full Moon. The Draconids peak on the night of October 8–9, the Orionids peak on October 21,…
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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were honoured for discoveries enabling scientists to control nerve-cell activity with light.
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Starting October 1, 2026, arXiv allows a single author no more than two uploads per month and three active submissions at a time. The trigger was a record surge of…
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Astronomers have confirmed the retrograde orbit of a Neptune-sized planet around an M dwarf: its orbit is tilted by about 136 degrees, and a massive neighbor apparently has no way…
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Direct activation of the AMPK protein by a drug extended the lifespan of yeast, nematodes and flies, by more than 25% in some experiments. Human trials are still a long…
Read the newsStarship's 14th flight on September 28, 2026 reached Earth orbit for the first time and delivered 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites. After an engine failure during ascent, the ship returned…
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The fourteenth Starship launch is scheduled for September 28, 2026. Ship 41 is expected to reach a stable orbit for the first time and deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
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New York-based Precision Neuroscience has closed an oversubscribed $250 million Series D round. Among the co-leads are Bill Ackman's Pershing Square and the Ackman Oxman Institute.
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NASA has moved the infrared telescope PRIMA into Phase B, toward preliminary design. The project's cost is capped at $1.2 billion, and launch is targeted for 2033.
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The Hubble TEMPOS survey covered 29 massive stars in six dwarf galaxies. In the most metal-poor stars, stellar winds weaken more sharply than expected, which changes models of early galaxies.
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MIT chemical engineers have sped up the production of lipid nanoparticles and learned to set their size and shape more precisely.
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Polar radio bursts from β Pictoris b have been recorded with the MeerKAT array: for the first time, radio emission is unambiguously linked to the planet itself rather than to…
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