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Physics News 24 August 2025 - 13 September 2025

Life on Mars? Visible ‘Time Crystal’, Diabetes Breakthrough and More – Science News Roundup

Life on Mars? Visible ‘Time Crystal’, Diabetes Breakthrough and More – Science News Roundup

Key Facts Space & Astronomy: Martian Life Clues and Interstellar Visitors Historic Mars discovery: NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most tantalizing clues yet that Mars may have harbored life. In a rock sample drilled from Jezero Crater (the site of an ancient lake), scientists detected the iron mineral vivianite and the iron sulfide greigite – substances that here on Earth often form with the help of microbes reuters.com. The sample – a reddish, fine-grained mudstone nicknamed “Sapphire Canyon” – contains strange circular patterns (ring-like “leopard spots” and dark speckles like poppy seeds) that could be fossilized microbial
13 September 2025
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Hidden “Bad Fat” Threat, Dwarf Planet Discovery, and Warp Drive Breakthrough – Science Roundup (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Hidden “Bad Fat” Threat, Dwarf Planet Discovery, and Warp Drive Breakthrough – Science Roundup (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy Distant Dwarf Planet Candidate Discovered: Astronomers announced the discovery of a “hidden world” beyond Neptune – a trans-Neptunian object called 2017 OF201. With an estimated 700 km diameter and an extreme 25,000-year orbit, this object could qualify as a dwarf planet sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. It ventures from ~44 AU at closest approach to an aphelion ~1,600 AU (over 0.25 light-years) – far beyond Pluto. Its existence suggests the outer Kuiper Belt isn’t as empty as once thought sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. Interestingly, 2017 OF201’s orbit doesn’t line up with the clustering of other distant bodies that hinted at “Planet
7 September 2025
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Hidden Galaxies, “4-in-1” Weight-Loss Drug, and Lightning’s Dirty Secret: Top Science News (Aug 30–31, 2025)

Hidden Galaxies, “4-in-1” Weight-Loss Drug, and Lightning’s Dirty Secret: Top Science News (Aug 30–31, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy: Cosmic Revelations Webb Discovers “Impossible” Early Galaxies: Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are astonished by 300 unusually bright objects that may be among the earliest galaxies ever to form sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. These galaxies appear far brighter and more massive than expected so soon after the Big Bang. “These mysterious objects are candidate galaxies in the early universe… If even a few of these objects turn out to be what we think, our discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe,” said Prof. Haojing Yan of the University
31 August 2025
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Quantum Tech Weekend Roundup: Forgotten Particle Breakthrough, DARPA’s Big Bet & a Million-Qubit Gambit (Aug 23–24, 2025)

Quantum Tech Weekend Roundup: Forgotten Particle Breakthrough, DARPA’s Big Bet & a Million-Qubit Gambit (Aug 23–24, 2025)

Major Quantum R&D Breakthroughs Quantum Communication & Networks Government & Military Quantum Initiatives Industry & Investment Moves Expert Perspectives & Outlook Despite rapid advances, leaders in the field urge a balance of excitement with realism. Some celebrated breakthroughs remain limited in practice – for instance, a recent quantum chemistry experiment was praised as “an encouraging early step” toward quantum-assisted drug discovery, but experts noted it has not yet outperformed classical methods ts2.tech. This kind of cautious optimism is common: quantum capabilities are expanding steadily, yet classical supercomputers still set formidable benchmarks in most tasks today. At the same time, industry
24 August 2025
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