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Starship's white launch plume rising over the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast, photographed from the International Space Station

FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

Boca Chica, Texas, is licensed for three Starship launches a year after dark. A Federal Aviation Administration review opened this week sets a ceiling of 456 launches, assumes half would fly at

October 16, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Landsat 8 satellite image of snow-capped Mount Taranaki in New Zealand ringed by dark forest inside a circular protected-area boundary, surrounded by green farmland

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Official records miss land that is already being conserved, a Nature study led by the University of Kent says, putting the 30 percent goal closer than thought. The extra land, though, often sits in ecoregions that are already well covered,

October 15, 2026

by Technology Desk

Satellite view of grey smoke plumes streaming across the Amazon River and rainforest from fires near Manaus and Santarem on October 12, 2026

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Smoke from Amazon fires closed schools in Manaus on October 12, and INPE's data show October

Side-by-side view of the Orion heat shields from Artemis I, left, with visible cracking, and Artemis II, right, after removal from their crew modules

Artemis II Heat Shield Had 9 Char-Loss Spots; Artemis I Had 103

NASA says post-flight analysis shows the Artemis II Orion heat shield had nine spots of char

IQM Quantum Computers ticker IQMX displayed on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square New York

IQM Lists on Nasdaq at $1.9 Billion, Becoming Europe’s First Public Quantum Company

IQM Quantum Computers listed on Nasdaq Thursday at a $1.9 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first publicly traded quantum company after raising 198 million euros via SPAC. The company's own filings warn that

July 3, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Artist illustration of WD 1856 b a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf star detected by the James Webb Space Telescope

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane and cloud particles in the atmosphere of WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a dead star 80 light-years away, the first atmospheric measurement

July 3, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Medical illustration of a multipolar neuron showing cell body dendrites and axon the type found in the motor cortex disrupted by Huntington's disease

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

An international team led by UC San Diego identified VIP inhibitory neurons that go quiet early in Huntington's disease and showed that restoring them in mice improved motor learning for days after

July 3, 2026

Health·News·Science

Artist illustration of exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting in the habitable zone of its red dwarf host star similar to the configuration of GJ 3378b

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

A revised analysis using four precision spectrographs has cut the mass of a nearby habitable-zone planet nearly in half, repositioning it as a likely rocky world and reopening a question scientists had

July 3, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Microscopy image of SpudCell the first synthetic cell built from non-living chemicals at the University of Minnesota

Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Scientists at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, the first synthetic structure assembled entirely from non-living chemicals to complete a full biological life cycle including division. The preprint has not been peer-reviewed

July 3, 2026

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Nematostella vectensis sea anemone used in CARDIB antiviral immunity research Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sea Anemones Suppress Their Own Immune Response to Fight Off Viruses, a Study Finds

Hebrew University researchers found that a protein called CARDIB suppresses sea anemone immunity yet is essential for viral defense the opposite of what scientists predicted. The study suggests evolution built multiple distinct

July 3, 2026

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A researcher adjusts instruments on an optics table in a quantum physics laboratory at the National Research Council of Canada

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

Physicists at McGill University generated controllable quantum phonon bursts by pushing electrons through a 2D crystal at near-absolute-zero, defying existing theory. The work, published in Physical Review Letters, points toward future communications

July 3, 2026

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A doctor consults with a patient on cancer treatment options

An Immune Cell Meant to Fight Cancer Gets Reprogrammed by Tumors to Help Them Instead

Tel Aviv University researchers found that macrophages, the immune cells that clear dead cancer cells, get reprogrammed to stimulate tumor blood vessel growth instead of fighting cancer. The Effero-seq technology used to

July 3, 2026

Health·News·Science

Researchers at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences mapped blood cell formation in embryonic yolk sac before gastrulation

Chinese Scientists Find Human Blood Forms Before the Embryo Takes Shape

A Chinese research team publishing in Nature has found that blood cell formation begins in the yolk sac before gastrulation, earlier than science has documented. The team created the first spatial map

July 2, 2026

Health·News·Science

Illustration showing brown amyloid plaques between neurons and blue tau tangles inside neurons in Alzheimer's disease

Scientists Find the Protein Alzheimer’s Uses to Jump Between Brain Cells

University of Utah scientists publishing in Cell identify Arc protein as the vehicle that packages Alzheimer's tau into vesicles traveling between neurons, with tau transmission nearly halted when Arc was removed in

July 2, 2026

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FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Artemis II Heat Shield Had 9 Char-Loss Spots; Artemis I Had 103

IQM Lists on Nasdaq at $1.9 Billion, Becoming Europe’s First Public Quantum Company

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Sea Anemones Suppress Their Own Immune Response to Fight Off Viruses, a Study Finds

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

An Immune Cell Meant to Fight Cancer Gets Reprogrammed by Tumors to Help Them Instead

Chinese Scientists Find Human Blood Forms Before the Embryo Takes Shape

Scientists Find the Protein Alzheimer’s Uses to Jump Between Brain Cells

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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