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ISS Grows Brain Tissue, Europe's 50-Org Orbital Economy & Silverpit Crater
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A SpaceX Dragon delivers brain organoids and artificial retina tech to the ISS, while Europe's orbital economy hits 50 coordinated operators under ESA. Plus: a North Sea crater rewrites Earth's impact history and a new fix for the black hole information paradox.
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A SpaceX Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station on October fifteenth carrying something unusual: brain organoids, three-dimensional heart tissue, and equipment for growing artificial retinas in orbit. This isn't a supply run.
Separately, the European orbital economy just crossed a threshold worth paying attention to. Fifty organizations are now formally operating under ESA coordination, covering orbital tugs, cargo return, debris removal, servicing, and refueling.
Beneath the North Sea, there's a crater that rewrites part of Earth's early geological record. The Silverpit Crater has now been confirmed as the result of a roughly one-hundred-and-sixty-meter asteroid that struck the seabed between forty-three and forty-six million years ago.
In theoretical physics, a proposed resolution to one of the field's longest-standing problems has emerged. The black hole information paradox asks what happens to quantum information when a black hole evaporates.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have reached the Fourier limit with quantum emitters on crystal surfaces. That's the theoretical maximum for quantum coherence.
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