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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has measured the distance to what the agency calls the most distant fast radio burst seen to date, and the galaxy it came from is a small dwarf rather than the…
Finland's Licensing and Supervision Agency has told Tuike Finland Oy to stop preparation work that is significantly changing the environment at two planned data center sites, at Muhos and Kajaani,…
Researchers have converted a standard commercial fluorescence microscope, the kind many shared imaging facilities already own, into an instrument that images single molecules at a scale below 10…
Bitdefender Labs said Oct. 8, 2026, that it had found a hidden app shipping inside the factory software of low-cost Android phones from several brands, all built on MediaTek chips. The company says…
Botanists have described a new species of giant waterlily from the upper Orinoco basin in eastern Colombia. The description was published Oct. 7, 2026, in the journal Phytotaxa, under the name…
Researchers working at a natural carbon dioxide vent off the Italian island of Ischia have put a measured value on the seawater acidity at which seafloor shell builders give way: pH 7.7. Below it,…
Two research groups have turned a transition inside the thorium-229 nucleus into the frequency reference of a working clock, each reporting it in Nature on Oct. 7, 2026. Both locked a steadily…
Chemists at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, have measured a chemical bond in a compound of seaborgium, element 106, and found it weaker than the same bond one…
A fossil from the Middle Jurassic of China has been described with its throat intact: the bony roof of the passage and the small bones that sit inside it, parts that almost never survive in an animal…
Stanford University researchers report that the Tsimane of Bolivia and the Hadza of Tanzania, two Indigenous peoples living on different continents, share 1,231 species of gut bacteria. Genetic…
Sea ice around Antarctica has been at record low daily extents since Oct. 2, 2026, surpassing the records set in 2023, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said in its monthly sea ice analysis. The…
Flood peaks arrived earlier at 52.2% of the river sites a global satellite survey could measure over 2008 to 2025, and at 27 of the 50 largest river basin outlets, researchers report in…