#Hubble found Bennu is active! This rubble pile coalesced from a planetary body blasted apart billions of years ago. OSIRIS-REx found it contains the building blocks of DNA, water, ammonia, and other biologically important stuff. 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2610.07636

Technosignatures: signs that something artificial or engineered is out there in the cosmos. But where should we look? #SETI Inst. is searching where, from an alien perspective, Earth would transit the Sun. First results are published! 🧪🔭👽 arxiv.org/abs/2610.07065

The inaugural episode of Science Scuffle! I interview @jomega22.bsky.social about the science of zombies! 🧪🧟 #zombies #fandom #popculture #science

This is the result of now-imperiled #NSF funding. 🧪🔭 Neutrinos, ghost particles that can sail through a light-year of lead, point to new science and discoveries about the cosmos. #physics #nobel Your vote matters. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann for optogenetics, a process that allows precise targeting of brain cells with pulses of light to understand what they do. 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Our Moon formed ~4.5 billion years ago when a Mars-size object slammed into the young Earth, blasting a hundred-billion-trillion kilograms of debris into space. About 1/3 of that formed a ring that coalesed into our Moon. JWST is hunting for similar smash-ups. 🔭🧪 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

It's spooky season! (Went to Howl-o-scream last night). Reminded me WHY we, as humans, seek out the paradoxical thrill of being scared. Revisiting a podcast I did on "Playing with Fear!"🧪😱👻 From ghosties and ghoulies... psychologicalscience.podbean.com/e/playing-wi...

Playing With Fear: Haunted Houses and Recreation | Under the Cortex

Haunted houses, horror movies, and ghost stories can provoke chilling delights, provided the fear they evoke remains in a “Goldilocks zone” that is neither too terrifying nor too tame. New research co...

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Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. Or not. A recent study suggests life on an Earth-like planet near us is probably stuck at the microbial stage. #seti #astrobiology I agree. 🧪🔭 👽🛸 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

About 20 years ago while working for TMT, I touted the Fantasitc capabilities of this ginormous telescope, the only next gen of its kind planned for the northern hemisphere. It has yet to break ground; once promising La Palma site has hit roadblock. [I need a belt.] 🔭🧪 www.iac.es/en/outreach/...

Talk to your doctor... and your AI Doctor Bot. Vocal hallmarks of depression and conditions like Parkinson or Alzheimer could be sussed out by machine learning to assist (not replace) clinician screening. 🧪⚕️https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e111088

Working from home isn't all wine and roses. (You choose your breakfast, I'll choose mine.) 🍷 Though you get about an extra 15 minutes of sleep each night, you also spend an extra 45 minutes sitting. That adds up! Stay active, my science-keen colleauges! 🧪🚴‍♀️ www.utu.fi/en/news/pres...

Remote work increases sleep and reduces physical activity—sedentary behaviour can increase by 45 minutes

According to a new study from the University of Turku, people sleep slightly longer when they work from home.

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It’s not all gloom and doom, since we won’t be around to see it. Actually, life on Earth may only have a billion years or so; solar heating will evaporate the oceans stopping plate tectonics. Earth will become a Venus-like world with a dead, scorching surface. 🧪🔭 I’m just a ray of sunshine!🌞

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Sure, 6 billion years sounds like a long time, but it's not eternity. Not when it comes to the lifetime of the sun. So what happens then? www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🧪 🔭

The ICONIC Very Large Array will be in D configuration (most compact) during VLA Open House on October 10! Be there!🔭🧪📡 🔗 nraoepo.ticketapp.org/portal/produ... 📸 NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/J.Hellerman

Some of the news stories from the past week you may have overlooked. Thanks @newswise.bsky.social! medium.com/@ceblue65/fa...

Fast Facts! Science News of the Week

Young Healthy(?) Drinkers: Science Finds Risk Factors; Fetal Alcohol Disorder: Stresses Caregivers, Especially Women; Flu Shots Also Convey…

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Double-slit milestone! [10nm-stone?] Top: Classic demonstration of particles behaving as waves.🧪 Bottom: Column of atoms a mere 10nm long acts like double slit, producing interference patterns at incredibly small scale. Bakes my noodle. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The mass of 5000 Milky-Way-size galaxies condensed into one galactic supercluster “progenitor.” 🧪🔭 Their light began its journey 2.1 billion years ago: ergo, most distant proto-supercluster ever observed! noirlab.edu/public/news/...

@noisyastronomer.com @brettmcguire.bsky.social @science-dude.bsky.social talking radio astronomy at #dragoncon - from ngVLA to @almaobservatory.bsky.social & all things @thenrao.bsky.social and beyond. The invisible universe is amazing!! 🧪🔭

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!!!

Dragon Con Science Track@dconscitrack.bsky.social · last mo.

Hope ya’ll are ready for AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE: The Science of Project Hail Mary with @steffidiem.bsky.social, @science-dude.bsky.social, Lali DeRosier, @drerinmac.bsky.social, and @toomanyspectra.bsky.social

Has been amazing! Talked Project Hail Mary, Artemis, FYL travel, and singing tonight about poop in space! It’s science AND engineering! #Dragoncon #science #firstlightcon

First Light Con@first-light-con.bsky.social · last mo.

Handing out First Light Con ribbons and rockin’ #DragonCon! #science #engineering

Another predictable outcome as NSF appoints Trofim Lysenko to head biology grants to save US from bourgeois Western lies. 🧪

Nature@nature.com · last mo.

US funding uncertainty was a key factor for several of the researchers heading to Canada. Observers predict more will follow. go.nature.com/4chgWx6

Wisper of a WIMP?! LX experiment at SLAC observed a single particle interaction difficult to explain except for dark matter, the invisible 85% of all "stuff" in the universe. 🧪🔭 Just a mere wisper in hurricane of data. But if true, champagne all around! www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-09...

On this day, August 25, 2000, my FAVORITE astronomical instrument, the towering Green Bank Telescope, was dedicated! The ginormous GBT has made amazing discoveries: astrochemistry, pulsar studies, asteroids, and more! 🧪🔭 You can visit! Just turn off cell phones. greenbankobservatory.org

Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! With ALMA! 🧪🔭 The roiling surface of the famous red supergiant star in Orion 800x size of the Sun, 600 light-years away. Long -lasting hotspots, seen here in mm-wavelength light, may relate to recently confirmed companion star. arxiv.org/abs/2608.19339

NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades. $1 billion being withheld. So much for my grant application.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Mercurial Antarctica, and that's not good. New PNAS study reveals a double wammy: South Pole is accumulating mercury at an alarming rate and increased melting of ice cap due to global warming is releasing long-stored mercury into ocean waters. 🧪https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2613472123

BMI alone = BS. It ignores differences in body composition and fat distribution. What a better indicator of obesity-related health risks? Waist circumference. That's it. It performed nearly as well as BMI + waist measures and avoided false positives. www.newswise.com/articles/med... 🧪🩺

Infrasonic bolide-detection!? 🧪🔭 Infrasound signal detected at 5 volcanoes in the early morning hours today by USGS and Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Bolides are excellent infrasound generators because of their supersonic speed and fragmentation as they enter the atmosphere.

Good news, fellow coffee fanatics! People with higher coffee consumption had lower total and visceral fat and greater skeletal muscle mass than those who consumed less coffee. New research suggests improved sex hormone levels may be the key. Double java bonus!🧪⚕️☕ www.newswise.com/articles/stu...

Medicare for all: A dream to some; A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS! (H.T. Excalibur) Implementing a universal, single-payer health care system could save the U.S. more than $1 trillion and some 114,000 lives EVERY YEAR, according to a recent Yale University analysis preprint.🧪⚕️ doi.org/10.64898/202...

Weather report from low Earth orbit: Typhoon Dolphin, a Category 4 storm as seen from the ISS, 425 km above the Pacific. Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is in the foreground. No pithy comments. Just a cool picture. 🧪🔭