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Why your favorite candy tastes different now 0
- Ask Us Anything, Engineering, Food Safety, HEALTH, Nutrition, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Technology
- October 30, 2026
It’s candy—I mean, Halloween—season. But, I mean, let’s be real: The two are kind of interchangeable at this point. But have you ever bitten into your favorite candy bar only to think, “This really doesn’t taste the way it used to?” Well, it turns out, you might be onto something. Candy companies really do sneakily
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November’s Night Sky Notes: Light-Day Away – NASA Science 0
- Night Sky Network, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- October 30, 2026
In 1977, NASA launched twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2, taking advantage of a once-every-175-year planetary alignment of the four largest planets in our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Using six gravity assists between them, this Grand Tour gave us up-close views of the gas and ice giants, including several moons. By the
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MIT develops robot that slithers through intestines like a snake 0
- Biology, Diseases, Engineering, HEALTH, Robots, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Technology
- October 30, 2026
Worms are usually the last thing someone wants in their gut. Just ask this unfortunate Alaskan bear recently spotted with several multi-foot long tapeworms hanging out of its butt. However, a new type of gut-crawling worm being designed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), may actually be here to help. Their soft
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Gamma-ray burst is one of the brightest in decades 0
- Deep Space, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- October 30, 2026
A gamma-ray burst (GRB) that has confounded astronomers is one of the brightest cosmic light shows in the past 20 years. Although the cosmic explosion first appeared inexplicably weak, researchers now believe it actually shot about one billion years’ worth of solar energy into the cosmos through a beam no thicker than a pencil. “We
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Vega Island Frozen in Fright – NASA Science 0
- Earth Observatory, Ice & Glaciers, Landsat 9, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- October 30, 2026
Shrouded in ice in the lonely Weddell Sea, Vega Island is an eerie sight to behold. On this speck of land east of the Antarctic Peninsula, ice, rock outcrops, and glacial moraines combine to create the appearance of a smirking skull in profile looking toward Devil Island. These images show Vega Island’s creepy countenance at
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APOD: 2026 October 30 – Haunting the Cepheus Flare – NASA Science 0
- APOD, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- October 30, 2026
Explanation: Spooky shapes seem to haunt this dusty expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood, they lurk above the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex
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