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Wide view of the Simonyi Survey Telescope mount assembly inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory dome in Chile.

October 30, 2026

Rubin Observatory Spots Possible Dwarf Planet ED138 Beyond Pluto, but Its Size Is Still Open

Somewhere beyond Pluto, a large object may be a new dwarf planet. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory spotted it, and scientists are now checking its orbit and size. Until they finish, ED138

A trapdoor spider and its burrow entrance

Nature·Science

New Mauritian Spider Lives In Coral Burrows That Flood At High Tide

New Mauritian Tidal Trapdoor Spider (*Idioctis marevallum*) Lives in Coral Burrows Submerged at High Tide How does a land spider survive the sea? A newly described species from Mauritius lives in burrows that are fully submerged at high tide. It

October 29, 2026

Felt It? So Did 1,500 Others: Victoria’s M3.5 Earthquake Rattles Gippsland

Australia·News·Science

More than 1,500 Victorians from South Gippsland to Melbourne reported being jolted awake just before midnight on Tuesday after a shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake

USGS Confirms a 2.6 Earthquake Hit East San Jose at 12:38 PM—No Damage or Injuries Reported Near Alum Rock

News·Science·USA

USGS confirmed a magnitude 2.6 earthquake at 12:38 PM PDT Tuesday near Alum Rock, East San Jose. No damage or injuries reported.

Bright meteor streaks across a dark night sky over a rocky desert landscape with star trails visible

Science·Space

Orionid meteor shower peaked at up to 20 meteors per hour from Halley’s Comet debris but October’s 80 percent full moon cut most suburban viewers to 3 to 6 per hour

The Orionid meteor shower peaked around October 21 and 22, but fireballs from Halley’s Comet debris continue crossing the sky through November 7. If you missed the peak, you still have time

Karmactive Team

October 26, 2026

Wild bottlenose dolphin swimming near the ocean surface through natural marine water

Culture·Nature·News·Science·Technology·UK

Blue Planet III Used Zero Generative AI — BBC Explains Why Murky, Imperfect Underwater Shots Were Left in the Final Cut

Blue Planet III: BBC Confirms No Generative AI Used — Why Cloudier Shots Were Left In When Blue Planet III premieres on BBC One on 1 November 2026, you will notice something

Rahul Somvanshi

October 24, 2026

Illustration image related to: An Underwater Robot Found About 1,000 Mainly Female Port Jackson Sharks Piled on

Australia·Nature·Science

An Underwater Robot Found About 1,000 Mainly Female Port Jackson Sharks Piled on the Same Bass Strait Seafloor Where Scientists Spotted Them Six Years Ago and Nobody Knows Exactly Why

An underwater robot was mapping the deep seafloor inside Bass Strait’s Beagle Marine Park when it came across something researchers had last seen six years earlier: the same general area, the same

Govind Tekale

October 24, 2026

Healthcare professional consulting with an adult patient during a clinical neurology evaluation

Health·News·Science·UK

UK’s AD-SMART Trial Launches Testing ADHD and Diabetes Drugs on 1,200 Alzheimer’s Patients — Results Due 2030

AD-SMART Alzheimer’s Trial Launches in UK to Test ADHD and Diabetes Drugs on Dementia If someone you care for is over 55 with a confirmed Alzheimer’s or mixed dementia diagnosis, a national

Sunita Somvanshi

October 24, 2026

Illustration image related to: Full Hunters Moon Peaks at 4

Science·Space

Full Hunter’s Moon Peaks at 4:12am GMT Monday October 26—Why the Clock Change Means Your Watch Already Shows the Right Time

The October full moon—the Hunter’s Moon—reaches its peak at 4:12am GMT on Monday October 26, 2026. The UK moved from BST to GMT when the clocks went back on Sunday October 25

Karmactive Team

October 24, 2026

Illustration image related to: Darolutamide Cuts Prostate Cancer Metastasis Risk by 58% in DASL-HiCaP Phase 3

Health·News·Science·UK

Darolutamide Cuts Prostate Cancer Metastasis Risk by 58% in DASL-HiCaP Phase 3 — What the Data Shows

Darolutamide DASL-HiCaP Trial Cuts Prostate Cancer Metastasis Risk by 58%, Phase 3 Data Shows Men with high-risk localized prostate cancer facing radiotherapy now have concrete new phase 3 data to raise with

Sunita Somvanshi

October 24, 2026

Illustration image related to: A Single Positron Stayed Trapped for Months

Science·Technology

A Single Positron Stayed Trapped for Months—What Physicists Can Test Next

A team at Northwestern University has held a single positron—one particle of antimatter—in a controlled trap for several months. This is not a step toward antimatter power or bulk storage. What it

Rahul Somvanshi

October 24, 2026

Scuba diver silhouetted beside coral-covered mast of a sunken WWII ship in Truk Lagoon, Micronesia

Environment·Science·World

Scientists Found 1,505 Bacterial Species Thriving Inside 80-Year-Old Fuel Leaking From Two Japanese WWII Warships in the Pacific and Three Genera Could Hold the Key to a Cleanup

Eighty years after the US Navy sank dozens of Japanese ships in a single operation, the fuel that went down with those vessels is still there—and it has developed its own ecosystem.

Rahul Somvanshi

October 24, 2026

Illustration image related to: A Rock From a Papua New Guinea Beach Hit 700 Degrees at 45 Kilometers, Nearly Ma

Science

A Rock From a Papua New Guinea Beach Hit 700 Degrees at 45 Kilometers, Nearly Matching Its 90 km Peak

A small piece of rock collected from a beach in Papua New Guinea has upended some long-standing assumptions about how the inside of the Earth works. The rock came from Taleba Bay

Karmactive Team

October 23, 2026

Science

Scientists Fixed a 178-Year-Old Train Story, Moving the Solar Storm From 1841 to 1848

For over 150 years, history books recorded the same story: a powerful solar storm disrupted a train on England’s Exeter line on October 18, 1841. Scientists from several institutions recently took a

Sonali Tiwary

October 23, 2026

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