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Marie Skłodowska Curie was born 159 years ago today, on 7 November 1867. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two, and she's still the only one with Nobels in two different sciences. Happy birthday, Madame Curie.

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November 7, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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FreeAstroScience joins the International Week of Science and Peace, 9 to 15 November 2026: its 41st edition by our count, and why peace is our value. www.freeastroscience.com/internationa...
We Join the UN Week of Science and Peace
FreeAstroScience joins the International Week of Science and Peace, 9 to 15 November 2026: its 41st edition by our count, and why peace is our value.
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November 9, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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What if climate change breaks our power to respond? New research reveals the hidden derailment risk threatening action. Read why it matters now. www.freeastroscience.com/climate-chan...
What Happens When Climate Change Outpaces Our Ability to Adapt? - FreeAstroScience
What if climate change breaks our power to respond? New research reveals the hidden derailment risk threatening action. Read why it matters now.
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November 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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What is inside a black hole? A 66-second fall, room for 16 million solar systems, and a space still growing.

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Work through the math for Sgr A* here. www.freeastroscience.com/what-is-insi...
What Is Inside a Black Hole? Space That Grows
What is inside a black hole? A 66-second fall, room for 16 million solar systems, and a space still growing. Work through the math for Sgr A* here.
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November 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Rising CO2 cut wheat gluten by 18.7% and shrank loaves in a new field trial, while proteins that can trigger allergies rose.

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Rising CO2 Cut Wheat Gluten 19% in a Field Trial
Rising CO2 cut wheat gluten 18.7% and shrank loaves in a new field trial, while proteins that can trigger allergy rose. See which cultivars held up.
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November 4, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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A 2026 F1 car gives up nearly a third of its downforce and must win back 8.5 MJ a lap.

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See the physics behind Antonelli's title, from the FIA rules. www.freeastroscience.com/2026-f1-car-...
Why does a 2026 F1 car slow down at full throttle?
A 2026 F1 car gives up nearly a third of its downforce and must win back 8.5 MJ a lap. See the physics behind Antonelli's title, from the FIA rules.
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November 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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New Webb data: 3I/ATLAS methane holds 13 times the deuterium of comet 67P, past every disk model.

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See our rebuilt ratio and where the age comes from. www.freeastroscience.com/3i-atlas-met...
3I/ATLAS Methane Holds 13 Times 67P's Deuterium
New Webb data: 3I/ATLAS methane holds 13 times the deuterium of comet 67P, past every disk model. See our rebuilt ratio and where the age comes from.
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October 31, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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For All Souls' Day, 2 November: Danse macabre hides Death in one retuned violin string.

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Hear the 12 harp strokes and the 1.414 tritone, math inside. www.freeastroscience.com/danse-macabr...
Why Is the Violin Mistuned in Danse Macabre?
For All Souls' Day, 2 November: Danse macabre hides Death in one retuned violin string. Hear the 12 harp strokes and the 1.414 tritone, math inside.
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November 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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JCVI-syn3.0, the minimal bacterial cell built in 2016, runs on 473 genes. Its builders say 149 do jobs nobody can name. The cell posted this July still borrows its ribosomes. We read all three against Frankenstein: www.freeastroscience.com/can-scientis...

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Can Scientists Create Life? What Frankenstein Asks
This Halloween, see how close labs are to building a living cell, why the 2026 SpudCell still borrows its ribosomes, and what Frankenstein warns us.
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October 31, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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#November 2026 night sky: Mars and Jupiter 1.2 degrees apart on the 16th, Leonids that nearly triple by dawn on the 18th.#3IATLAS #JWST

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See our hour-by-hour count. www.freeastroscience.com/november-202...
Why Wake Early for the November 2026 Night Sky?
November 2026 night sky: Mars and Jupiter 1.2 degrees apart on the 16th, Leonids that nearly triple by dawn on the 18th. See our hour-by-hour count.
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October 31, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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Trump’s EPA scrapped the Endangerment Finding, yet climate fingerprints are stronger than ever. The full proof is here, before the courts decide. www.freeastroscience.com/endangerment...
Trump Axed the Endangerment Finding, Not the Proof - FreeAstroScience
The report behind the EPA repeal missed 16 years of climate fingerprints. Five scientists lay them out, from the cooling stratosphere to every ocean.
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October 21, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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With AI, one P&G employee matched a two-person team. Yet specialists using AI in their own field still scored highest, and tech staff writing outside theirs at IG finished 13.6% lower. Six studies, side by side:
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Specialist or Generalist: Who Gains More From AI? - FreeAstroScience
AI let one worker match a two-person team, yet specialists still won. Young workers in AI-exposed jobs are already 19% behind. See where you stand.
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October 20, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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ALMA's sharpest look at 11 tiny planet-forming disks in Lupus: four show rings and gaps, one an empty middle about the size of Mars's orbit. If planets made them, they're super-Earths to mini-Neptunes. See the numbers we checked:
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Do Tiny Protoplanetary Disks Hide Rings and Gaps? - FreeAstroScience
ALMA's sharpest view of 11 tiny Lupus disks found rings, gaps and a 1.6 au cavity, hinting at forming super-Earths. Every number is checked inside.
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October 20, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Temperature alone puts a floor under how fast a general-purpose quantum process can reach equilibrium: about half the Planckian time, 12.7 femtoseconds at room temperature (Abiuso et al., Nature Physics, 2026). See it worked out at four temperatures:
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How Fast Can Anything Reach Thermal Equilibrium? - FreeAstroScience
Quantum mechanics puts a floor under thermalization: 12.7 femtoseconds at room temperature. We did the division and set it beside the chaos limit.
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October 19, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Baffin Island lavas carry hydrogen about 14% short of deuterium. A Science Advances study (9 Oct 2026) finds a freezing magma ocean moves the lower mantle by just 3 per mil, so it favors a leak from Earth's core. Our arithmetic:
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Is Earth's Core Leaking Water Into the Mantle? - FreeAstroScience
A freezing magma ocean moved deep-mantle hydrogen by just 3 per mil, so Baffin Island's light lavas point to Earth's core. The arithmetic is inside.
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October 19, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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A Siberian lab worker's death raised plague fears. WHO, Russian and journal data say the risk is low, and 11 animal foci keep the disease alive. www.freeastroscience.com/plague-in-ru...
Is Plague in Russia Back, or Did It Never Leave? - FreeAstroScience
A Siberian lab worker's death raised plague fears. WHO, Russian and journal data say the risk is low, and 11 animal foci keep the disease alive.
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October 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Iron ions pushed untouched cells toward tumors in a 2026 study. We set its 0.8-gray dose beside a real Mars mission, and the comparison is inside. www.freeastroscience.com/space-radiat...
Does Space Radiation Give Untouched Cells Cancer? - FreeAstroScience
Iron ions pushed untouched cells toward tumors in a 2026 study. We set its 0.8-gray dose beside a real Mars mission, and the comparison is inside.
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October 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Five years of FAST timing weighed PSR J1856-0039 at 2.488 solar masses. Its merger should leave a neutron star, not a black hole. The math is inside. www.freeastroscience.com/double-neutr...
The Lightest Double Neutron Star Ever Weighed - FreeAstroScience
Five years of FAST timing weighed PSR J1856-0039 at 2.488 solar masses. Its merger should leave a neutron star, not a black hole. The math is inside.
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October 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Mars orbits inside the Sun's habitable zone and still freezes. We work out the zone's edges for any star, and the dates when Earth falls out of it. www.freeastroscience.com/what-is-habi...
What is the habitable zone? - FreeAstroScience
Mars orbits inside the Sun's habitable zone and still freezes. We work out the zone's edges for any star, and the dates when Earth falls out of it.
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October 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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A 7-second wobble in a pulsing star hints at a giant in the habitable zone of a star nine times brighter than the Sun. We check its 51% odds inside. www.freeastroscience.com/a-type-star-...
A-Type Star's 7-Second Wobble Hints at a Planet - FreeAstroScience
A 7-second wobble in a pulsing star hints at a giant in the habitable zone of a star nine times brighter than the Sun. We check its 51% odds inside.
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October 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Most shooting stars are comet dust smaller than a grain of sand, burning up 100 km above you. Hear how a meteor shower works in Episode 18, free. www.freeastroscience.com/meteor-showe...
What Really Falls During a Meteor Shower? - FreeAstroScience
Most shooting stars are comet dust smaller than a grain of sand, burning up 100 km above you. Hear how a meteor shower works in Episode 18, free.
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September 30, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Saturn at opposition, two meteor showers and a Moon over the Pleiades: October 2026's sky events timed against moonlight, with the clocks converted. www.freeastroscience.com/october-2026...
The October 2026 Night Sky, Timed by the Moon - FreeAstroScience
Saturn at opposition, two meteor showers and a Moon over the Pleiades: October 2026's sky events timed against moonlight, with the clocks converted.
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September 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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New 2026 simulations: a hot but solid Theia split and left an intact Moon in hours; a cold one left only debris. The run-by-run numbers are inside. www.freeastroscience.com/how-did-the-...
How Did the Moon Form? Ask How Hot Theia Was - FreeAstroScience
New 2026 simulations: a hot but solid Theia split and left an intact Moon in hours, a cold one only debris. The run-by-run numbers are inside.
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September 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Two photons interfered 510 km up in the first quantum computer in space. We checked the preprint: the dip beats classical light by 2.1 sigma, not 5. www.freeastroscience.com/quantum-comp...
Did a Quantum Computer in Space Really Compute? - FreeAstroScience
Two photons interfered 510 km up in the first quantum computer in space. We checked the preprint: the dip beats classical light by 2.1 sigma, not 5.
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September 28, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Starship Flight 14 reached orbit and released 26 Starlink V3 satellites, then came home after one lap, not six. We put the whole day on one clock. www.freeastroscience.com/starship-fli...
Starship Flight 14 Reached Orbit. Why So Short? - FreeAstroScience
Starship Flight 14 reached orbit and released 26 Starlink V3 satellites, then came home after one lap, not six. We put the whole day on one clock.
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September 28, 2026 at 6:19 PM