ON THIS DAY 📅 November 17, 1970 the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first remote-controlled robot on the Moon. Lunokhod 1, operated on the Moon for 11 months, and analyzed soil, sent back thousands of images, and proved the feasibility of robotic planetary exploration.

🔍 Read: A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University has for the first time identified crystalline hematite (α-Fe2O3) and maghemite (γ-Fe2O3). phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Data from Sentinel-6B will continue a decades-long record of sea surface height, helping to improve coastal planning, protect critical infrastructure, and advance weather forecasts. www.nasa.gov/missions/jas...

🔍 Read: Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. singularityhub.com/2025/11/15/t...

🔍 Read: Professor Kotohiro Nomura's research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed an efficient method for the exclusive depolymerization of PET. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: An international team involving the Institute of Chemical Research, a joint center of the University of Seville and the Spanish National Research Council, has developed a new technique. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Set to track sea levels across more than 90% of Earth’s ocean, the mission must first get into orbit. Here’s what to expect. www.nasa.gov/missions/jas...

ON THIS DAY 📅 November 16, 1974 Humanity sent its first deliberate message to extraterrestrials. 👽📡 The Arecibo radio telescope transmitted the message, directed at globular cluster M13. This pioneering SETI effort included information about humanity, Earth, and DNA.

🔍 Read: Biologists thought that marine heat waves lowered urchin reproduction only at lethal temperatures. A new study shows reproductive shutdown even earlier. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Throughout evolution, pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, have developed sophisticated defense strategies to survive and multiply in the hostile environment of their hosts. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Researchers have announced the rediscovery of Moema claudiae, a species of seasonal killifish in Bolivia that was previously thought to be possibly extinct. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University has for the first time identified crystalline hematite. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Every year, 12 million people worldwide suffer a stroke; many die or are permanently impaired. Currently, drugs are administered to dissolve the thrombus that blocks the blood vessel. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: An archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterizes them today. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: The deadly decline of Britain's native oak trees may be driven by an unexpected accomplice: their own smell. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Aging lead-pipe drinking water systems, along with the public health measures implemented to reduce their risks, are reshaping the chemistry and health of nearby urban streams. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: While they didn't live in a pineapple under the Phosphoria Sea, it turns out a good chunk of the prehistoric Intermountain West was once blanketed in sea sponges. phys.org/news/2025-11...

ON THIS DAY 📅 Nov 15, 1867 Edward A. Calahan unveiled the first stock ticker in New York City, and revolutionized Wall Street. It was a massive leap forward in telecommunications and information technology, creating new financial systems and changing how information flowed.

🔍 Read: Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, disrupting the global carbon cycle for several hundred thousand years, and earning the title "the Great Dying." phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Currently, scientists struggle to forecast volcano eruption events, as no universally reliable, real-time eruption forecasting framework is available. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Scientists have discovered a fern from South China that naturally forms tiny crystals containing rare earth elements (REEs). This breakthrough opens the door to a promising new way of "green mining". phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: The transition to healthy diets with a low environmental impact is crucial to achieving sustainable food systems and reducing health problems. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence linking the two. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Ultrafiltration membranes used in pharmaceutical manufacturing and other industrial processes have long relied on separating molecules by size. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Countless everyday products, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, are derived by first turning propane into propylene. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in Leiden has produced new insights that could be applied in 5G devices. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the coast of Hawai'i need to consume each day to survive and are there sufficient squid to sustain the population? phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Seven new species of a distinctive frog-like insect have been discovered by a scientist from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England. phys.org/news/2025-11...

What area of science do you wish you knew more about? Reply & let us know! 1: CRISPR 2: Dark matter 3: Nuclear fusion 4: Climate tipping points We'll be turning these into "Deep Dives" to bring you the science behind the headlines, covering the most essential content to get you up to speed.

🚀 Read: The aging infrastructure of the NASA's Deep Space Network is operating at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade. The latest news isn't helping. gizmodo.com/nasas-230-fo...

🐊 This is NOT a dinosaur. It is in fact, a precursor of the modern crocodile. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🌊 Read: New research from University of St Andrews has found that some coastal areas will become much more acidic than previously thought, posing an existential threat to coastal economies around the world. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🦠 Read: Researchers have recovered the genomes of more than 24,000 previously unknown microbial species—some from entirely new branches of life that likely evolved before plants and animals. phys.org/news/2025-11...

💻 Read: Harvard researchers demonstrate a new system capable of detecting and removing errors below a key performance threshold, potentially providing a workable solution to the problem. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🦫 Read: Beaver-created wetlands increase pollinator numbers, boosting biodiversity, according to new research by the University of Stirling. phys.org/news/2025-11...

ON THIS DAY 📅 November 13, 1971 Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft ever to orbit another planet, entering orbit around Mars after a 167-day journey from Earth. 🚀🔴

🧬 Read: In a leap for biomedical science, researchers have developed RiNALMo, an AI model that can "read" and interpret RNA sequences like a language. This breakthrough helps scientists predict how RNA behaves in the body. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) and University of Florida have solved a botanical mystery: Hawaii's wild blueberries originally came from temperate East Asia. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Cell movement is an essential biological process, whether it's cancer cells metastasizing to other parts of the body or immune cells migrating to heal a wound. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first magneto-optical trap of a stable "closed-shell" molecule. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable force known as dark energy. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

🔍 Read: The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's great survival tools. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, are found almost everywhere in the world—from hot springs to arctic ice to antioxidant smoothies. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Remoras hold on tight to humpback whale through breaching, diving, and rocketing to the surface at breakneck speeds. (footage credit: Griffith University/Dr Olaf Meynecke).

🔍 Read: When scientists compared what California sea lions eat in the Channel Islands (U.S.) and the Gulf of California (Mexico), they expected to find a clear explanation for why populations were booming in California but shrinking in Mexico. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: University of Liverpool and Newcastle researchers have uncovered how bacterial organelles assemble, opening new routes for bioengineering and climate innovation. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: Janelia researchers have uncovered a novel way that two of the structures inside cells coordinate the production of proteins, highlighting how interactions between organelles are important for regulating cellular processes. phys.org/news/2025-11...

🔍 Read: The way clusters of differently sized water droplet populations are distributed within clouds affects larger-scale cloud properties, such as how light is scattered and how quickly precipitation forms. phys.org/news/2025-11...