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Chris Jeremia

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Chris Jeremia is a writer at Space Daily covering space, science, and Mind & Meaning. She holds a degree in communications and teaches yoga alongside her writing, which shows up in how readily she covers the mind under pressure as well as launches and telescopes. Her pieces start from primary sources: agency releases, observatory data, and the journal papers behind the headlines. She is direct about what a single study can and cannot show.

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Joro spiders’ common prey families came out 10 to 25 percent apart from the native orb weavers’ in a gut-content DNA study of 356 spiders at 52 sites in Georgia and South Carolina — and where the Joros were present, the natives’ guts were not distinguishable from sites without them

The gut contents of 356 female orb weavers, collected in a single October and sequenced family by family, put the introduced spider's prey list statistically distinct in composition from its neighbours' while overlapping them on many prey families, and wider on a count the authors say likely reflects how many of each spider were caught. Native gut contents at Joro-occupied sites were not distinguishable from those at sites with no Joros.

Sep 2, 2026

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The first man-made object recovered from orbit came down in the Pacific instead of being caught in mid-air, and by the time the capsule reached Honolulu the Navy had painted “Compliments of the US Navy” on the shipping can

Declassified CIA and National Reconnaissance Office histories record how the August 1960 mid-air catch of the Discoverer 13 capsule went wrong, why the capsule carried no film, and how a plan to swap it before it reached the President stayed on paper.

Aug 30, 2026

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Cameras on whale shark fins caught them feeding as deep as 68.8 metres

Camera tags went onto ten whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef and five came back with usable video. In 22 hours and 27 minutes of it, researchers scored 13 behaviours, eight of them feeding, and the deepest feeding they filmed reached 68.8 metres. Those eight sit inside a wider 36-behaviour catalogue, 30 entries of which come from the published literature.

Aug 29, 2026

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Hours after a Soviet nuclear satellite broke up over Canada in 1978, Moscow’s ambassador said the reactor on board had been designed for complete destruction on re-entry — radioactivity had already fallen across 124,000 square kilometres of the country’s north, searchers located fragments the formal claim recorded as showing “lethal radioactivity,” and Ottawa billed the Soviet Union exactly C$6,041,174.70

The 1978 crash of Kosmos 954 is the rare satellite accident that came with an itemized invoice. The paper trail, from the ambassador's assurance to the C$3 million settlement, is stranger than the legend.

Aug 29, 2026

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A Galápagos tortoise species was down to 14 known survivors when a worldwide search turned up one more male living at the San Diego Zoo, and after he was shipped to the Galápagos in 1977 to breed, the rangers who carried “Diego” back to his island in 2020 left him among roughly 2,300 wild tortoises

The Española giant tortoise came within 15 animals of extinction. The rescue worked; the celebrity credit is more complicated.

Aug 29, 2026

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SpaceX publishes Starlink orbit files three times a day so its satellites do not collide with anything else, and one week of them was enough to reconstruct the density of the air 482 kilometres up, longitude by latitude — a map its author believes is the first of its kind built from real data rather than a simulation

A researcher at Kyoto University says the technique had only ever been tested on numbers a computer generated. He has now run it 19 times on public Starlink data and checked the answer against two European satellites that derive density from their own GPS tracking.

Aug 25, 2026

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Why did taxonomists name a new rove beetle genus Luffy, after the One Piece pirate whose arms stretch?

Two entomologists described the genus from four pinned specimens collected in Yunnan and Laos, and wrote the reason for the name into the paper. It is about proportions, not powers.

Aug 25, 2026

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Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed triplet

Webb's integral field spectrograph split one lopsided hydrogen line into two, then turned up a third in the galaxy's outskirts. The mass estimates could be off by a factor of ten, and the paper's own hedges run heavier than the headlines built on it.

Aug 22, 2026

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A telescope array still in early construction was pointed at the Helix Nebula and came back with 22 arcs of shocked gas in the faint outskirts — each one carved by an invisible clump of a dead star’s ejecta that interstellar space is pulling apart

Five of MOTHRA's eventual 30 mounts were working when the array was aimed at the Helix as a commissioning target. Almost nothing is visible at the centre of any of the 22 bow shocks it found, and the way their size collapses with distance puts a rough number on how long a fragment of a dead star lasts once the interstellar medium gets hold of it.

Aug 21, 2026

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93 percent of the Moon’s width slides into Earth’s dark inner shadow on the night of August 27, and because the rim left outside it may stay hundreds of times brighter, the Moon will look bitten rather than red

NASA’s decade table puts the umbral magnitude at 0.930, deeper than any other partial lunar eclipse between 2021 and 2030 except one. The 96 percent figure in circulation measures the Moon’s area, not its width.

Aug 20, 2026

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In 1927 a Brisbane physics professor melted a lump of tar and sealed it in a funnel, and almost a century later that tar, stiff enough to shatter under a hammer, has dripped only nine times

The pitch drop experiment at the University of Queensland is the world's longest-running laboratory experiment. The tar inside looks like a solid and breaks like hard toffee when struck, yet it has been quietly falling, one rare drop at a time, for nearly a hundred years.

Jun 16, 2026