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Sunday Special: Rockets and Space Stations

Chinese scientists want to take power generation to the next level by plugging straight into the sun, while Jeff Bezos made a big leap forward in the space race by launching a new rocket — a major leap for his company Blue Origin. It’s been another big week in science.
P.S. The Sunday Special is designed to help you discover the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs outside of AI. Our regular AI and Tech updates will resume as usual on Monday.
SCIENCE SUNDAY
The most interesting scientific discoveries and breakthroughs this week

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Star Socket: China isn’t just shooting for the stars—it’s plugging into them. The country has unveiled plans to build a huge power station in space, moving solar panels closer to the sun. Without the Earth’s atmosphere running interference and absorbing most of the sunlight, the station could collect more energy in a year than all the oil reserves on Earth combined. No concrete date has been shared yet for the project.
Schrödinger’s Shuffle: Physicists took a cue from Schrödinger’s cat and scored a major win for quantum computing. Based on Schrödinger’s ideas of "superposition”, they used antimony atoms to store quantum data. Unlike traditional qubits, which can only exist in two states, antimony can juggle through eight—making it a lot more resistant to errors.
Iron Women: Geneticists have found that parts of Iron Age Britain were centered on women—the first time such a system has been documented in Europe’s history. DNA shows husbands moved into their wives’ communities after marriage, with land and leadership passed down the female line.
Record Reboot: MIT just smashed a major quantum computing record. Using a superconducting qubit called fluxonium, they achieved a single-qubit fidelity of 99.998%. This points to a significant drop in quantum errors—a massive step towards making quantum computing usable and practical.
Hide & Seek: For years, scientists wondered why sulfur seems to vanish in dense star-forming clouds. Now, they’ve discovered that it binds with ammonium in low cosmic temperatures to form ammonium hydrosulfide—a salt that latches on to space dust and pebbles. This potentially explains how sulfur gets "locked up" in solid form rather than staying gaseous.
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Bezos Blasts: SpaceX rival Blue Origin, which was founded by Jeff Bezos nearly 25 years ago, successfully launched its first New Glenn rocket on Thursday, and it’s been all the buzz on socials this week.
Nuclear Snack: The 80s really were the Wild West. A 1985 clip of physicist Galen Windsor casually munching on uranium on live TV to prove it’s “harmless” has resurfaced—and Redditors have questions.
Pitt Pretender: Scammers pretending to be Brad Pitt conned a French woman out of $850,000 using AI deepfakes, and it’s got people worried for the future.
Fry Me To The Moon: A new study has found that growing food on the Moon may be a lot easier than growing it on Mars, making lunar life sound a tiny bit simpler for future human settlers.
Old School: A retro Sony camera just blew up on Reddit. Its stupidly gigantic memory card is giving Gen-Z a peek into the pre-SD card era.
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ONLY GOOD NEWS
A healthy dose of optimism to kickstart your week

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Memory Zap: Will Smith’s Neuralyzer from Men in Black isn’t the stuff of sci-fi anymore. Scientists may have found a way to erase bad memories, swapping them out with positive ones. The technique layers happy cues over negative memory patterns during sleep, potentially helping patients with trauma, PTSD, or similar mental health conditions.
World Wild Web: Scientists are using electronic tags to track animals in the wild, using insights to build a network—a sort of “internet for animals”. It could provide real-time data on animal movements and behavior, helping predict wildlife disease outbreaks, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
Nano Cure: Chinese researchers have put Parkinson’s on notice with a new breakthrough technique. Using gold-shelled nanoparticles coated with antibodies and peptides, they’re able to target damaged dopamine cells, potentially reversing the onset of Parkinson’s. Early testing on mice looks promising, with significant neurological recovery.
Eye Opener: Scientists have identified two new compounds that could potentially treat retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder that causes blindness in over 1 million people worldwide. Unlike current options, these compounds are less toxic and light-sensitive, and though human trials are still far off, it marks a huge step toward better vision-saving therapies.
MEME OF THE WEEK

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