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• Neuroscience News2026-10-07✓ Read

  How Brain Cells Lock In Short-Term Memories

  A new study reveals a "split attractor network" in fruit flies that explains how neural circuits stabilize short-term working memories.

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• Science | The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  WHO says it does not have ‘full picture’ from Russia following suspected plague death

  ‘Transparent information sharing’ from Moscow is required to conduct full risk assessment, UN agency says

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• NYT > Science2026-10-07✓ Read

  What Experts Want to Know About the Russia Plague Scare

  Missing details about the death of a lab worker, including the cause, are worrying scientists.

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• Inverse2026-10-07✓ Read

  27 Years Later, The Most Outlandish Star Wars Villain Has, Somehow, Returned

  Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’s iconic podracing scene is still controversial to this day. For some fans, it’s a fun, epic tribute to cinematic classics like Ben-Hur; for others, it’s an annoying random side quest that stops the momentum of the movie. But like it or not, it’s one of the most recognizable scenes in the Skywalker Saga, and one that’s getting revived in the new video game, Star Wars: Galactic Racer.

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• NYT > Science2026-10-07✓ Read

  A Public Health-Minded Senator Asks: What Comes After Trump and Kennedy?

  Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.

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• Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture2026-10-07✓ Read

  Two Chemists Win Nobel Prize for Unraveling a Mystery of Molecular 'Handedness,' Helping Drugmakers Develop Safer Medications

  Many molecules come in two mirrored forms—like left and right hands—but living organisms generally contain only one. However, chemists couldn't figure out how to make just one version in the lab. Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai share the prize for their work solving the puzzle

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• Inverse2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘Bucking Fastard’ Takes Werner Herzog Back to His Weirdo Roots

  Rooney Mara and Kate Mara play Irish sisters who talk, walk, and move in unison in 'Bucking Fastard,' the memorably bizarre new film from German director Werner Herzog.

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• Science | The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  All the news and science from the 2026 Nobel prizes – podcast

  This year’s Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine have celebrated work that has been used to develop countless drugs and transform modern medicine, allowed physicists to observe one of the most mysterious particles, and provided a tool that could act as an on/off switch for brain cells. To find out more, Madeleine Finlay talks to our science editor, Ian Sample, and correspondents Nicola Davis and Linda Geddes

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• Science & technology2026-10-07✓ Read

  OpenAI claims to have solved hundreds of long-standing maths problems

  It is judgment day for mathematics

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• Science – Ars Technica2026-10-07✓ Read

  Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand

  Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed "handedness"—they're chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50-50 mix of the left- and right-handed forms of a chemical, but life uses only one of them. In fact, because of the differences between left- and right-handed chemicals, most of the key enzymes used by organisms will fail to work if they're presented with chemicals that have the wrong handedness.

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• Science & technology2026-10-07✓ Read

  Burglars could be identified from airborne DNA

  Skin cells, dandruff and saliva are largely responsible

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• Science & technology2026-10-07✓ Read

  A Nobel for illuminating life’s asymmetry

  And achieving a feat of chemical synthesis not seen for 4bn years

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• Science | The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  This is what the 2026 Nobel prize for chemistry is all about

  The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists, Henri B Kagan at Paris-Sud University in France and Kensō Soai at Tokyo University of Science in Japan. Their discoveries showed how chemical reactions can produce an overwhelming excess of one of two mirror image forms of a molecule. Science journalist Linda Geddes tells Madeleine Finlay how this has become an important tool in drug development, allowing a greater understanding of how medicines work in the body Continue reading

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• Neuroscience News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Microglia Rescue Vulnerable Dopamine Neurons in Parkinson’s

  Summary: Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered that human microglia can selectively prune away toxic alpha-synuclein aggregates from dopamine-producing neurons without destroying the host nerve cells. Utilizing co-cultures of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons and microglia, the team demonstrated that microglia employ “trogocytosis”, a precise cellular nibbling mechanism, regulated by GPNMB, P2RY12, and CD22 signaling pathways, along with an IL-10 molecular brake.

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• Neuroscience News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Statins Linked to Reduced Glaucoma Risk and Slower Progression

  A new study in 420,000 adults links statin medications to a 15% lower glaucoma risk and a 55% drop in surgical interventions.

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• NYT > Science2026-10-07✓ Read

  Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Is 194 Years Old. He Just Had His Genome Sequenced

  Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the genetics of longevity.

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• Science | The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Jonathan the giant tortoise, 194, offers up insight into secrets of longevity

  DNA analysis of oldest living land animal reveal patterns on genes that appear to protect functioning of mitochondria

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• Neuroscience News2026-10-07✓ Read

  A Single Neural Circuit Unifies Multidimensional Prediction

  Researchers show a single spiking neural network predicts event identity, timing, and probability using local learning.

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• Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture2026-10-07✓ Read

  Stanley Kubrick’s Personal Archive Is Going Up for Auction, Including the Ax From ‘The Shining’ and the Star Child From ’2001: A Space Odyssey’

  The legendary director’s on-set chair, annotated scripts and props give a glimpse into the meticulous moviemaking process behind films like "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut"

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• Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture2026-10-07✓ Read

  Five Discoveries That Changed Our Understanding of T. Rex Forever, From Warm Blood to Lips

  Paleontologists are still unraveling the secrets of the world’s most famous dinosaur, such as its outward appearance or the way that it hunted. With each new finding, our view of the “tyrant lizard king” has gotten a little clearer—and sometimes has radically shifted

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