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Here comes the first full moon of 2026 - appearing big and bright in the night sky as if keeping watch over the falling Quadrantid meteors passing by. The energies of this rare double event may resonate with those attuned to it, though not everyone will feel its influence. A full moon signifies coming full circle - letting go to create space for something new to emerge as the new year begins.

Quadrantid Meteor Showers Peak

I asked ChatGPT to create a New Year's Image of how it saw me. The first thing I noticed was the 'All Seeing Eye' above me as I walked down the Yellow Brick Road - home of the WiZard of OZ (Z) - and through the symbolic 'door' into a new reality (reboot) for 2026.

Fireworks to my right - the moon (feminine energies) and the Spiral of Creation to my left - the color purple set against a backwash of blue and gold (colors of my story Sarah and Alexander) - complete the simulated image.

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National Science Fiction Day
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New Year's Day Themes 2026

Four mice went to space as astronauts. One came back and became a mother. And that simple fact might matter more than you'd think for humanity's future beyond Earth.

Astronomers Measure The Mass of a Planet With No Star For The First Time

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This tiny chemistry change makes flow batteries last far longer

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China Advances Toward Fusion Ignition With Major Plasma Breakthrough

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Forget Transistors: This New “Intelligent” Material Computes Like a Human Brain

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Record snow sinks multiple vessels at Juneau Harbor, triggers avalanche risk in Alaska

Spotted Lake refers to Canada's soda lake with colorful brine pools that are smelly and slimy 'like the white of an egg

Trees in Panama's tropical forests are growing longer roots in the face of drought

Ancient African bedrock reveals the violent beginnings of life on our blue planet

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Swearing Provides Health Benefits (Especially if It's Not a Habit)

Why procrastination isn't laziness - it's rigid thinking that your brain can unlearn

How my time-space synesthesia affects how I experience and 'feel' the new year

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What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?

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A Psychologist Explains Why New Year's Feels Harder Now – And What You Can Do

How my time-space synesthesia affects how I experience and 'feel' the new year

National Science Fiction Day corresponds with the birthdate of famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992) Professor, Author - Videos. He is considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke writing or editing more than 500 fiction and non-fiction books.

Astronomers ring in the new year with a stunning galaxy collision

Hubble Catches Baby Stars Blowing Giant Bubbles in Space

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The five unsolved mysteries of 2025 that captivated the world... from a UFO surviving a hellfire missile to a 'vast city' under Egypt's pyramids

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Traffic Has a Curious Effect on The Atmosphere's Electric Field, Study Shows

This Stunning 'Blue Marble' Fruit Isn't Actually Blue - It's a Wild Optical Illusion

Melting of West Antarctic ice sheet could trigger catastrophic reshaping of the land beneath

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What to watch for in weight loss drugs in 2026

Nearly 70% of U.S. adults could now be classified as obese

From gene therapy breakthroughs to preventable disease outbreaks: The health trends that will shape 2026

What Is Biophobia? Feelings of fear, dislike, or disgust towards animals and nature - Your Guide to The Hidden Experience of Millions

Shallow M6.0 earthquake hits southeast Indian Ridge

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Prehistoric Sea Monster Didn't Stick to The Oceans, Suggests Fossil Study

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At least 40 dead after fire sweeps through Swiss ski resort bar

Rose Parade 2026: Floats, performances and celebs at first wet event in 20 years

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

NASA's Chandra rings in the new year with the Champagne Cluster

The year's first meteor shower and supermoon clash in January skies

Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage

All the eclipses, supermoons, meteor showers and planets to spot in 2026

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Old physics, new materials: The science behind how winter jackets keep you warm

The quirkiest stories from the world of physics in 2025

Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture on Dec. 29, 1959 and dreams up an entirely new field of physics - nanotechnology.

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The Quantum Insider's Expert Predictions On Quantum Technology In 2026

Real-life experiment shows Niels Bohr was right in a theoretical debate with Einstein

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Regional temperature records broken across the world in 2025

Clouds are vital to life - but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here's how to see the changes above us

What's inside Mexico's Popocatepetl? Scientists obtain first 3D images of the whole volcano

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DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to Long Life

In a rare condition - a man to get 'scales' on his hands whenever he washed them

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Isiah Whitlock Jr., 71, Scene-Stealing Character Actor in 'The Wire,' Dies

Kennedy Center exodus: The 11 acts, creators pulling out amid Trump takeover

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Donald Trump's whirlwind year changed America. Here are eight ways.

Trump 2.0 is dismantling American science. Here's what's at stake, according to researchers.

You and I made it through another year watching its dramas endlessly unfold. Are you ready for the next round? Health is the one of the biggest concerns - especially now with flu season skyrocketing and millions of people about to lose health insurance. Is this the year secrets get revealed or change direction? One thing about life on planet Earth in 2026 ... it's not going to be boring.

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life's essential elements through the galaxy may be incomplete

Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered on Collision Course in a Cosmic First

Time runs faster on Mars and scientists just proved it

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Mathematician Shares Solutions For 10 Festive Brain Teasers

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This Quantum Gas Refuses To Follow the Rules of Classical Physics

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What Is Fire? The Answer Is Stranger Than You'd Think

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The Amazon Is Shifting Into a 'Hypertropical' State Unseen For Millions of Years

Earth's Core Seems to Be Wrapped in Layers Like an Onion, Study Finds

3.7-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Challenge Long-Held Ideas About Earth’s Early Continents || 3.7-Billion-Year-Old Rocks in Australia Are Rewriting the Story of Earth’s First Continents

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This Experimental Cancer Drug Made Tumors Vanish, Without the Dangerous Side Effects

The brain has a hidden language and scientists just found it

CRISPR Breakthrough Could Rewrite Future of Genetic Disease Treatment

Scientists Were Wrong for Decades: What Looked Like DNA Knots Turned Out To Be Something Far More Twisted

Better sleep: The added perk of your New Year's goals

How to combat the post-Christmas slump

Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Crucial Differences

MIT scientists find a way to rejuvenate the immune system as we age

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Ancient Puebloans kept macaws and parrots in great houses for ceremonial us

Archaeology team uncovers lost mission site of Espiritu Santo

Ancient bone arrow points reveal organized craft production in prehistoric Argentina

Earth's worst extinction was followed by a shockingly fast ocean comeback

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Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist and JFK's granddaughter, dies at 35 after terminal cancer diagnosis

More artists pull out of Kennedy Center shows following name change

Takeaways from Trump and Netanyahu's meeting in Florida

Search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight resumes, reviving hope of answers delayed for more than a decade

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, and Don Cheadle are all set to return for a new Ocean movie, with production eyed for October of next year

Beyonce declared the fifth billionaire musician by Forbes

The Monkees - Videos

The Star of Bethlehem might have actually been a comet described in an ancient Chinese text

Are we the Martians? The intriguing idea that life on Earth began on the red planet

Earth-directed CME from M4.2 flare forecast to produce G1 geomagnetic storm on New Year's Day

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In 1952, DC's skies were littered with US fighter jets chasing UFOs. More than 70 years later, the mystery persists

The 1952 UFO Washington sighting that upended decades of denial

Depending on Who You Ask - and What You're Willing to Believe - Aliens Are Real. And They've Visited Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc More Than Once

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Could data centers in space help avoid an AI energy crisis? Experts are torn.

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New AI-based technology offers real-time electric vehicle state estimation for safer driving

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Critical minerals are hiding in plain sight in U.S. Mines

Australia's Buried Treasure: Rare Rocks Reveal Origins of a Critical Metal Niobium a transition metal that plays a critical role in modern materials science due to its ability to significantly enhance the strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance of alloys.

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold seep on record, and it happens to be teeming with animal life.

A Greenland Glacier Is Cracking Open - and Scientists Are Watching It Drain in Real Time

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The World Is Sleeping on Bird Flu, Expert Warns

Cholesterol-lowering statins are highly effective, yet many patients abandon them due to lingering muscle symptoms that have long lacked a clear explanation.

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This 70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Contained a Sparkling Crystal

Lchashen wagon: A 3,500-year-old covered wagon that transported a deceased chief to the next world

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Hunt for missing flight MH370 to resume more than a decade after disappearance