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Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
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Europe Launches From Europe — And Two White Dwarfs Six Minutes Apart
A German rocket lifted off from an Arctic island on Saturday and became the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from Western European soil. Plus: the gaps in stellar streams may not be dark matter after...
The Hydrogen Map: How a Radio Telescope Heard Half the Universe
Anna and Avery open the Weekend Wrap with a genuine first: South Africa's MeerKAT has detected the 21-centimetre hydrogen signal from four to five billion light years away using radio data alone — no ...
One Flash in the Xenon: The Dark Matter Event Nobody Can Explain
Links & sources Brown University — LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter — https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-09-01/lz-dark-matter-results US Department of Energy — LZ Sees Surpr...
BepiColombo Lets Go: Eight Years, Nine Flybys, One Irreversible Moment
Anna and Avery cover BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury beginning today, as the ESA/JAXA mission jettisons the transfer module that has carried it for nearly eight years and nine planetary flybys. Plus:...
There's Something Molten Under Mars's South Pole
Today's episode — S05E183, Wednesday September 2, 2026: Main story: A thermal anomaly beneath Mars's south pole. Writing in Nature on August 27, a team led by Alexander Berne (Caltech PhD '26, now Uni...
Catching the Uncatchable: Starship's Boldest Test Yet
Today's episode — S05E182, Tuesday September 1, 2026: Main story: SpaceX cleared Booster 21's static fire at Starbase's Pad 2 on August 30, the last major milestone before Starship Flight 14 — the thi...