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There’s a secret, extra member of Crew-11 traveling to the International Space Station right now: disease-causing bacteria. Or, at least, such bacteria will be growing aboard the orbiting laboratory very soon. Scientists at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel, in partnership with U.S.-based space tech company SpaceTango, have developed a study that will examine how microgravity affects the growth of …

Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have successfully recreated a long-overlooked experiment from 1938 — one that could play a crucial role in powering our planet with clean energy.  As reported in SciTech Daily, by reviving and updating the original setup, researchers confirmed what physicist Arthur Ruhlig once suggested nearly a century ago: that fusion between deuterium and tritium (known …

(Credit: University of Trento/NASA) Welcome to this installment of The Intelligence Brief… This week, a groundbreaking new study using NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified over a dozen newly confirmed pit craters on the Moon that could serve as natural entrances to underground environments—some of which may be ideal for future astronaut shelters. In our analysis, we’ll explore 1) how …

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the universe’s first stars. The findings could help to assess how suitable primordial black holes are as candidates for dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious “stuff.” But the study team isn’t sure yet whether these black holes helped star formation, …

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Small recreational vehicle driving the Dempster Highway near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Credit – Robert Postma/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group—Getty Images High up in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a seismic gun is being cocked and aimed at the little community of Dawson City—population 1,600. If a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is correct, that town or one of …

A beam of particles speeding away from the vicinity of a monstrous black hole has been found to be severely kinked, providing compelling evidence that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known. The black hole and its crooked jet are found in a blazar known as OJ 287, located about four billion light-years away. …

Mampfred/Getty Images NASA announced earlier this week that it will start randomly searching employees and their vehicles. While the space agency stated that it’s to ensure workplace safety, the measure seems to be out of fear that employees could engage in corporate espionage to secure new jobs before they’re laid off. NASA …

A new pre-print paper involving sometimes-controversial Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has suggested a way we could intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it hurtles through the Solar System.  On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object moving through the Solar System at nearly twice the velocity of previous interstellar visitors ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov. The object, which was confirmed to be …

Throughout August, an annual meteor shower will be on full display in the skies above Rochester. The Perseid Meteor Shower can produce up to 30 meteors per hour. Famously, meteors can burn so bright that they can be seen through the heavy light pollution of urban environments. Dan Schneiderman, community engagement manager for the Rochester Museum & Science Center, said …