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Moon Dust, Unintended Mosquitoes, Weird Old Apes, Pain In The Asp, Hide & Seek Rats, Older Neanderthals, Cure For Colds, Everything Old Is, Asteroid Impacts, Scent Sacs, Big Neutron, And Much More…

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Every once in a while things do not go quite as you expected they might.

An election goes the other way

You lose your job without notice

You fall off your bike and need stitches

Which might make the unexpected seem like a very terrible thing.

However the unexpected can also be a source of really positive things…

Like falling in love

Finding a 20 in the pocket of a jacket you haven’t worn in some time

Or detecting the background cosmic radiation,

the residual proof of the big bang,

despite never having heard of it before,

as happened at Bell Labs’ Holmdale Horn Antenna in 1964.

The unexpected comes in many forms…

if it didn’t it could hardly keep on being unexpected,

eventually someone would catch on to it…

And occasionally they do!

The story of science is the story of people catching on.

It’s the story we can’t get enough of here

Where having expectations of hearing the unexpected is just what you can expect each week on

This Week in Science

Coming Up Next…

First up, the BIG science news stories of the week!

Moon Dust

A new study suggests that a vaporizing moon/comet/exoplanet is potentially responsible for the odd behavior of Boygian’s, or Tabby’s, Star.