A fossil held at the Natural History Museum in London since 1924 has been identified as a new predator, Invictibellatrix amberina. It is the first megaraptoran recorded in Europe, a group of two-legged hunters related to Tyrannosaurus rex.
A roughly 10-metre trade ship sank off Kekova Island 4,400 to 4,700 years ago, and its storage jars still lie about 30 metres down on the seabed.
The rover reached the mark on 11 October 2026 while heading for Idubi, an area near Jezero crater's western edge where the science team hopes to find traces of ancient hydrothermal systems.
Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for leading the IceCube observatory in Antarctica, detailing future research goals at an INFN meeting in Turin.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 12 million crown prize to the French and Japanese chemists for solving how to direct chiral reactions in drug synthesis.
Sophie Adenot and three crewmates splashed down off California on 8 October after more than 27 hours of return travel. Their homecoming came about three weeks late, because the capsule bringing their replacements needed repairs before launch.
American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discovering light-gated ion channels and developing optogenetics.
Researchers have sequenced the genome and epigenome of Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise living on Saint Helena, identifying 287 unique genetic variants that protect against cellular aging.
A team of 17 researchers reached the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro on Monday, 12 October, to examine a submerged object that may be Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra. Other specialists consider a fallen tree in the lagoon the more likely explanation.
A Phase 1 trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that seven of ten participants became more light-sensitive, days after the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to optogenetics pioneers.
A study in Frontiers in Aging reveals that 70-year-old women in the Sardinian village of Bolotana have a 13.83% chance of reaching age 100, ranking second worldwide behind Hong Kong.
Victoria colombiana, with an estimated 30 to 50 plants left in the wild, was identified after a horticulturist noticed an Instagram photo taken in Colombia's Inírida region. A five-day expedition then located the plants.
A research team led by the University of Warwick has identified a gas giant formed from material expelled by a dying star, orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 every 4.4 days.
Forecasters expect about five meteors per hour, with the best window from 20:00 to 23:00 on Thursday. A solar eruption may also bring a weak geomagnetic storm on Friday, possibly pushing aurora south of its usual range.
The burst, dubbed FRB 20240304B, was detected by MeerKAT in South Africa on 4 March 2024, but its source galaxy was too faint for ground telescopes and only the James Webb Space Telescope could identify it.
Paleontologists have identified Herugavialis cairensis, an extinct crocodile species from Mokattam limestone quarried to build the Great Sphinx, after re-evaluating a 1920s fossil.
A bioarchaeological examination of 46 skulls from royal tombs at Abydos found that 39% suffered fatal head trauma, providing physical evidence of retainer sacrifice during Egypt's First Dynasty.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station on Thursday in seven hours and 55 minutes, completing the fastest trip by an American spacecraft.
NASA postponed the return of the Crew-12 mission from the International Space Station to Wednesday at the earliest after unfavorable sea conditions off California delayed undocking.
Indonesian authorities confirmed the emergence of two island-like land formations in the Sunda Strait after a September eruption expanded the Anak Krakatau volcano by 32.8 hectares.
Research led by the University of Oxford suggests animal life emerged between 800 and 700 million years ago, indicating early animals evolved well before the oldest confirmed fossils appeared in rock deposits.
Research in Nature shows that consuming 100 grams of sugar during antibiotic treatment correlates with a 21% greater reduction in gut bacterial diversity among cancer patients.
A study of 397 European species published in Nature reveals that fluttering wing stripes generate optical illusions, causing birds to miscalculate flight trajectories and miss their targets.
Two studies connect vocal changes and AI speech modeling to elevated dementia risk and accelerated biological aging markers in large cohorts.
Two days after splashing down off California, French astronaut Sophie Adenot made her first public appearance in Cologne, where she described her return as a mix of emotions and physical challenges.
The European Space Agency completed field tests for its Charlie rover in the Tabernas Desert on 1 October 2026, preparing operations for the 2028 ExoMars mission.
Physicists in Vienna and Beijing have built the first autonomous nuclear clocks using thorium-229 crystals, maintaining self-stabilizing operations for more than 24 hours with an accuracy of one second in 30 million years.
A couple foraging for mushrooms in Mazovia discovered a fourth-century BC burial urn and a second-century Roman silver denarius on a forest sandpile. Both artefacts have been conserved and placed on permanent display at Liw Castle.