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🔬 NASA Just Used Mars as a Slingshot — And That's Only the Start
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- May 25, 2026
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft executed a Mars gravity assist maneuver, flinging itself toward a mysterious metallic asteroid that could reveal what's happening deep inside rocky planets like Earth. Archaeologists in Greece unearthed the oldest hand-held wooden tools ever found — 430,000 years old and shaped with surprising intentionality. A brand-new species of tiny blue octopus was discovered nearly 6,000 feet beneath the ocean near the Galápagos Islands, reminding us how much of our own planet remains a mystery. In health science, a Trojan horse weight-loss drug showed striking results in mice, a Vitamin B12 compound showed promise for crossing the blood-brain barrier to target brain tumors, and eating grapes may actually reprogram how your skin responds to UV radiation. Meanwhile, a major climate emissions database may be significantly undercounting CO2 from cities, raising urgent questions about the accuracy of the data driving global climate policy. Subscribe to Peer Review'd Newsletter: https://peerreviewd.com/ Love Science? Check out our other Science tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio