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Jupiter’s Moons May Have Been Born With Life’s Building Blocks Cursor

Jupiter’s Moons May Have Been Born With Life’s Building Blocks

Jupiter’s moons may have been born with the chemistry needed for life. An international collaboration that included Southwest Research Institute has shown how complex organic molecules (COMs), widely considered essential precursors to life, may have been built into Jupiter’s Galilean moons as they formed. The findings are detailed in companion…
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March 2, 2026
40,000-Year-Old Stone Age Symbols May Be a Precursor to Written Language Cursor

40,000-Year-Old Stone Age Symbols May Be a Precursor to Written Language

Geometric marks carved into Paleolithic tools and figurines were not random decoration. A new computational analysis shows that Ice Age humans used these repeated sequences of dots, lines, and notches to encode information. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined more than 3,000 signs found on…
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February 23, 2026
SpaceX test fires its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of midweek launch of Crew-12 to the space station Cursor

SpaceX test fires its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of midweek launch of Crew-12 to the space station

The nine Merlin 1D engines at the base of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket briefly ignited during a static fire test of the vehicle on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. This test was a precursor to the launch of Crew-12 to the International Space Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now An early morning…
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February 8, 2026