Special Edition — 15 Stories

Omega Science News Desk · Thursday, October 22, 2026 · Hosted by Don Sol

The fifteen stories

1. A single positron, held for months
2. Magnetar light puts empty space itself on trial
3. The magic ingredient that makes quantum computers work
4. Two ocean currents collide off Japan — and the map was wrong
5. Mars, sealed in a tube
6. Chariklo: the little world with rings
7. The cholesterol drug and the muscle channel it holds open
8. Hundreds of hidden bacterial genomes in prostate data
9. AI designs a working virus from scratch
10. A mitochondrion, wrapped — and still running
11. SRSF1: a dial on cell aging
12. Thwaites Glacier: the messy zone where ice lets go
13. The hurricane warning was perfect. Behavior didn’t move.
14. Three thousand steps: the reachable bar for the brain
15. Four minutes, three times a week: the smallest dose that works