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RCS is your portal to clear, relevant, and evidence-based science news and opinion. We strive to bring you the best of #scicomm. Editor: @SteRoPo

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"The biggest question most often asked about dark matter is whether it exists. But astrophysically, we've long moved on to the next step." via
@bigthink https://t.co/gJBM5lLSRs

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For the first time in 34 years, a cassowary laid an egg at Australia's Adelaide Zoo.

10-year-old Martha has been mating with 13-year-old Jeffrey. Dad will takeover incubating the neon green egg and, hopefully, it will hatch.

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The Orionid meteor shower, created by tiny pieces of debris from Halley's Comet, peaks on the night of Oct. 21 - 22. Your best chance to see them comes a few hours before dawn, after the bright Moon sets. Find a dark location, give your eyes time to adjust, and look up.

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

Still making tracks and doing science!

Since breaking the all-time off-world driving distance record on Oct. 11, Perseverance has continued work on the Red Planet.  ½

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"Scientists have used human fossils from Morocco to create a digital face from around 315,000 years ago.

The result offers a glimpse of what some of the earliest known members of our species might have looked like." via @ScienceAlert https://t.co/7Tq7dBOFbx

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"String theory has not established itself as an account of what the universe is... But dismissing the whole field as wasted intelligence misses what theoretical work does and what it’s supposed to be about." by @MichaelCody https://t.co/Yra0je10jl

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A Lost Schrödinger Manuscript Reveals a Surprising Twist in Quantum Physics. via @ScienceAlert https://t.co/StG34pkVo5

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"Earning a higher salary... could gradually reshape who a person is... Increases in income tend to be followed by small increases in reliability and emotional resilience, alongside decreases in sociability and interpersonal warmth." via @PsyPost https://t.co/vDAOnCDMs7

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"Marine populations in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico plummeted by roughly 60 percent in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, with little evidence of recovery, a new study has revealed." via @Independent https://t.co/oG2JbxOGmo

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A hormonal bond between cats and their owners: "Owners with higher oxytocin tended to have cats with higher oxytocin, too. Higher feline oxytocin was also associated with fewer negative emotions and lower cortisol in owners." via @ScienceAlert https://t.co/vVXeHJZLAH

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"A recent paper in Antiquity reports that a team of archaeologists has uncovered new evidence challenging longstanding claims that Kushite culture was merely a copy of that of its more famous northern neighbor, ancient Egypt." via @Debriefmedia https://t.co/yhKoprIRcp

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Life: "Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution suddenly, inexplicably turned up the dial." via @nytimes https://t.co/ADG1XyQnHH

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"Among the 377 results that OpenAI announced on October 6, 2026, one stood out. It claimed to settle the “quasi-Riemann hypothesis” — a weaker version of the Riemann hypothesis, which is arguably the biggest open question in math." via @QuantaMagazine https://t.co/1axDwgxAQG

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Norway's Five Foolish Virgins: " These spectacular standing stones have stood here for more than 1,700 years, concealing treasures from the Roman Empire." via @Sciencenorwayno https://t.co/y6qu7SYryw

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"In a new study, researchers... in the UK detail some reassuring discoveries that suggest quantum fields could become effectively locked in place, which could help explain why the Universe has remained stable." via @ScienceAlert https://t.co/8GBSA1CsaA

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"About a month ago, a Chinese rocket took off from a remote spaceport in the Gobi Desert, released 10 satellites into orbit, then reignited its engine and put itself on a trajectory to rain down debris over the American Midwest." via @arstechnica https://t.co/0489RQKKmH

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Russian spacecraft maneuvers in “extreme proximity” to satellite used by Ukraine. It came within 500 meters, and likely much closer. via @arstechnica https://t.co/s1jLH9JNS0

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"What could the motive be for squeezing protein into everything?

Protein sells. The food industry’s high-protein drive is sadly not all part of a plan to fix a diet deficiency. In fact... most of us are already eating too much of it." via @sciencefocus https://t.co/Df8FmKWdR5

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The only way to get rid of rats is to prevent them from coming in the first place. via @Sciencenorwayno https://t.co/5GZs0jHlWb

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"Self-driving cars promise fewer accidents, fewer injuries, and potentially thousands of lives saved. That sounds like good news for everyone—except perhaps the personal-injury lawyers whose livelihoods depend on crashes and harm." via @ACSHorg https://t.co/LYXjpPdcnq