The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a faint glow in the universe dating back to roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, long before stars or galaxies emerged. Detecting this light and mapping … [+6543 chars]

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a faint glow in the universe dating back to roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, long before stars or galaxies emerged. Detecting this light and mapping its fluctuations provide valuable insights into the age and …

Phys.Org

Cosmic microwave background offers evidence of gas flowing in galaxy clusters - Phys.org

A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how humans may have halted the planets next ice age by burning fossil fuels, according to new research.
Around 20,000 years ago, the on… [+5115 chars]

A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how burning fossil fuels may have stopped an ice age in its infancy, new research finds

Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say - CNN

Deep inside a limestone cave in southeastern France sits some of the oldest art ever made by people. Chauvet Cave is fragile and important enough to history for officials to keep the location secret … [+3877 chars]

UV fluorescence reveals a natural calcite varnish protecting 37,000-year-old Chauvet Cave paintings, without touching the fragile art.

Archaeologymag.com

Natural varnish may protect 37,000-year-old Chauvet Cave art, UV scans show - Archaeology News Online Magazine

How our brains give rise to consciousness is one of the biggest mysteries in neuroscience. But new research by Janis Hesse at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues, may help fill in … [+3743 chars]

How our brains give rise to consciousness is one of the biggest mysteries in neuroscience. But new research by Janis Hesse at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues, may help fill in some of the details. The insights are coming from studies on…

Medical Xpress

A hidden brain rhythm challenges ideas about where consciousness comes from - Medical Xpress

As modern electronic devices shrink, so do the metal electrical wires inside them. However, they start to run into serious problems the smaller they get. Conventional wires generate excessive heat an… [+3575 chars]

As modern electronic devices shrink, so do the metal electrical wires inside them. However, they start to run into serious problems the smaller they get. Conventional wires generate excessive heat and suffer a massive spike in electrical resistance that affec…

Ultrathin carbon ribbons conduct electricity like metals in first successful synthesis - Phys.org

Two astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station Thursday for the first of two spacewalks, one week apart, to install a final pair of roll-out solar blankets that will complete a comple… [+5814 chars]

Two astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station for the first of two spacewalks, one week apart, to complete a complex upgrade to the aging power system.

CBS News

Spacewalkers begin final phase of multi-year space station power system upgrade - CBS News

Zombies have taken many forms in popular culture. In Michael Jacksons Thriller music video, corpses climb out of their graves and perform an impressively coordinated dance. In HBOs The Last of Us, a … [+196 chars]

These organisms can infect others — and then take control.

The Washington Post

How parasites and fungi create nature’s real-life zombies - The Washington Post

Cecil Jackson, age 69, climbed into his elevated Millennium platform hunting blind the afternoon of October 24. It was opening day of archery bear season in this area of the Appalachian Mountains in … [+3446 chars]

Cecil Jackson’s giant bear could be the biggest one taken in Kentucky this year

Outdoor Life

It Took Six People and a Tractor to Haul This Massive Black Bear Off the Mountain - Yahoo

If you lose, you get lunch detention for a week...

Buzzfeed

Can You Correctly Answer One Trivia Question For 18 Different Middle School Subjects? - BuzzFeed

Does your dog ever act like your cat or vice versa? Sometimes our pets pick up each other's traits and habits and start acting like they're alike. This emu, Liberty, is the perfect example. She seems… [+1784 chars]

Pawnation.com

Emu Thinks She’s One of the Dogs, but They Want No Part of Her - Yahoo

Where did we come from? The answer, many scientists have proposed, is space.
One longstanding theory, hypothesized for over a century, is that life on Earth emerged from fragments of prebiotic chemi… [+3882 chars]

Where did we come from? The answer, many scientists have proposed, is space.

ScienceAlert

Scientists Ran 100,000 Simulations of Comets Striking Earth. The Results Are a Surprise. - ScienceAlert

A new program aims to help scientists figure out how the ingredients of the universe formed early galaxies, which lit up the cosmos after a "dark age."

Live Science

Stunning new simulation shows the first galaxies breaking through the Cosmic Dark Age - Live Science

On Oct. 28, 2026, NASAs experimental X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) celebrated a year since its first flight as part of the agencys program which will pave the way for the return of supers… [+7246 chars]

On the anniversary of its first flight, NASA’s X-59 QueSST has started its first journey east from California, headed to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center

Theaviationist.com

NASA’s X-59 QueSST Heads to Kennedy Space Center - The Aviationist

Assembling a typical family tree can take a lot of work, but imagine if your family contained billions of members rather than hundreds. Thats the challenge facing researchers studying embryonic devel… [+126 chars]

Two studies demonstrate powerful techniques for retracing the byzantine histories of embryonic cells — and potentially revealing new insights into cancer and other diseases.

Unlocking the mysteries of how simple embryos become complex creatures - The Washington Post

The senior partner didnt waste any time. Im sorry, Zahaan, he said, your services are no longer required at the firm. We sometimes called him the Burger King behind his back, because he ate a Whopper… [+20869 chars]

Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give

Aeon.co

How to use physics to make sense of the messiness of life - Aeon

What they're saying: "There's nothing really comparable in the background of my career to what we're experiencing today," Space Force Col. Brian Chatman, the commander of Florida's rocket range, told… [+2816 chars]

Rocket launches from Cape Canaveral are well outpacing those of the Cold War-era space race.

Axios

Cape Canaveral in its "boom cycle" of launches - Axios

The difference between a planet and a dwarf planet is largely their environment. While both orbit the sun and have sufficient gravity to assume a nearly spherical shape, a planet has cleared its orbi… [+3135 chars]

Lying beyond Pluto, 2026 ED138 could be as large as 1,500 kilometers in diameter. Astronomers are still working to confirm whether it meets the criteria for a dwarf planet.

Wired

Astronomers Discover a Possible New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System - WIRED

Its about to be a very spooky Halloween in space.
Scientists say they have found stars brewing inside a Halloween-like cosmic cauldron.
Using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers ca… [+2294 chars]

The region is located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting our Milky Way.