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Brendan Brown

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Brendan Brown is a co-founder of Brown Brothers Media and one of Space Daily's three Co-Publishers. He founded The Expert Editor in 2012 and co-founded Global English Editing in 2014, working professionally as an editor before moving into publishing.

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Science

Scientists have found a cell that fights infection by detonating. It bursts, kills everything within reach, and five minutes later there is nothing left to show it was ever there

The immune system's most abundant warrior fights infection with a suicide bomb strategy, vanishing without a trace.

Aug 8, 2026

Earth News

The Italians named it Devil’s Valley because of the steam pouring straight out of the ground. Turns out the steam was the mild part. A few kilometres below it sits enough molten rock to fill Lake Geneva forty times over

Beneath Italy's steam vents lies a geothermal powerhouse so vast it could revolutionize how Europe generates clean energy—if engineers can safely tap into it.

Aug 8, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Unhappiness isn’t the opposite of happiness — neuroscientists now think it’s a distinct brain state with its own architecture, and treating it like simple sadness is why so many people stay stuck

The brain treats chronic unhappiness as something fundamentally different from sadness—and misdiagnosing it as depression is why conventional treatments so often fail.

Aug 4, 2026

Science

When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road

The first photograph of Mars almost never reached the world because a printer was too slow—so NASA scientists grabbed art supplies from a local shop and finished it by hand.

Jul 26, 2026