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2026 Current Events Trivia

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What commercial space company announced on January 30, 2026, that it would pause its New Shepard suborbital space tourism program for 'at least two years' to focus on lunar exploration?

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Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard were awarded the 2025 Turing Award in March 2026 for their work in what field?

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What ancient animal's 40,000-year-old RNA was studied in January 2026, offering new biological insights?

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What company, in January 2026, announced plans to deploy a new satellite communications network called TeraWave in LEO and medium Earth orbit?

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A study published in Science Advances in April 2026 found that what ocean current is likely to weaken by 42–58% by 2100?

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Researchers led by the University of Oxford reported a synthetic biology approach to improving honeybee nutrition by engineering yeast to produce essential what in March 2026?

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Astronomers reported the discovery of GJ 887 d, a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting the nearby red dwarf star GJ 887, in March 2026. This planet lies within the star's what?

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What Japanese corporation launched its new El Segundo Headquarters in April 2026 to drive music technology innovation?

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The UK's first long-distance robotic-assisted surgery was reported in March 2026, performed on a patient located in what territory?

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The largest interstellar organosulfur molecule (2,5-cyclohexadiene-1-thione) was identified in January 2026 in a molecular cloud near what galactic feature?

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What phenomenon did the Muon g-2 Collaborations at CERN, Brookhaven, and Fermilab win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for in April 2026?

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What is the name of the experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois that hopes to complete construction of its detector in April 2026 to test if a muon can transform into an electron?

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What NASA space telescope, now projected to launch in September 2026, was announced as finally complete in April 2026?

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What type of genetic cause did Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor independently discover for ALS and frontotemporal dementia, earning them a Breakthrough Prize in April 2026?

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What next-generation telescope, potentially launching in the 2040s, did NASA award contracts to seven companies to study technologies for in January 2026?