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A Nobel in Ice: Unveiling the Secrets of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
October 9, 2026 · 24 minShow notes We're back after a short break! Today: the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory — a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice turned into a telescope. Then a Sydney-led team publishes…
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The Great Water Mystery: Jezero Crater and the Hunt for Mars' Hidden History
September 23, 2026 · 27 minPerseverance drove to the edge of an ancient Martian lake expecting a beach and found the inside of a volcano — rock that water has been through at least three separate times. Europe's Jupiter probe comes home on Monday night and crosses…
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What Keeps a Galaxy Churning: Andromeda's Supernova Secrets Revealed
September 22, 2026 · 28 minSupernovae keep galaxies churning A new study led by Fan Yi Meng from Tsinghua University provides the first comprehensive census of superbubbles in the Andromeda Galaxy, revealing that clustered supernova feedback is sufficient to sustain…
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The Unifying Mystery of Black Hole Jets: Stellar and Supermassive Connections
September 19, 2026 · 34 minSHOW NOTES Black hole jets follow one universal rule Adelle Goodwin (Curtin University / ICRAR, Forrest Research Foundation Fellow) and Andrew Mummery (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) show that supermassive black holes launch…
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The Youngest Planet Ever Found
September 18, 2026 · 34 minAstronomers have confirmed the youngest planet ever found - Elias 2-24 b, less than a million years old, sitting inside a gap it is carving in its own birth disc 450 light-years away. Plus: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter finds a…
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Roman Opens Its Eye
September 17, 2026 · 32 minFirst starlight from Roman, a shorter fuse on the Solar System, weapons in orbit, and a globular cluster hiding behind the dust Roman opens its eye — and finds it has twice as long to look NASA has activated the Nancy Grace Roman Space…
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The Evolving Enigma of Dark Energy and the Sun's Mysterious Past
September 14, 2026 · 30 minAn Australian-led team has rebuilt thirty years of supernova observations into one consistent catalogue — and it adds fresh weight to the idea that dark energy is not constant. We also ask whether the young Sun swallowed a super-Earth…
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The Planet That Keeps Shrinking plus the Weekend Wrap
September 12, 2026 · 37 minToday's episode — The Weekend Wrap, Saturday 12 September 2026: OUR LEAD: A SMALLER MERCURY Mercury has been contracting for four and a half billion years as its huge iron core cools, and it writes the record on its own surface — in long…