Science This Week: Quakes Awaiting Explosion and Star-Shaped Brain Cells

Science This Week: Quakes Awaiting Explosion and Star-Shaped Brain Cells

This week's science news saw us looking deep into the cosmos and the depths of our oceans. To understand the universe today, we need to look back at its earliest epoch, a period about 13 billion years ago known as the cosmic dawn. Until now, space-based telescopes have been our only way to peer back this far, but this week astronomers detected traces of light left by the first stars using a ground-based telescope — a feat scientists previously thought was impossible. From deep space to the deep ocean, researchers uncovered more secrets about the " world's richest shipwreck " off the Colombian coast, while other scientists captured a haunting blood-red squid on camera for the first time. Meanwhile, while researchers have spotted some remarkable things underwater, something that should normally live there recently turned up in a very unexpected place . Amazing discoveries Star-shaped brain cells may underpin the brain's massive memory storage …