Features Archive | October 2026

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October 22nd
- Will plants survive climate change? The 'Great Dying' reveals clues about their resilience.
October 21st
- A fighter pilot had unexplained headaches for over a year, and the cause was hiding in plain sight — Diagnostic dilemma
October 20th
- 'It makes me feel that we can do a lot about it': ESA official shares striking satellite snap of Europe's record-breaking summer heat waves — Earth from space
October 19th
- 'Birdman' copper plate: A 700-year-old depiction of a Native American warrior that may be a woman holding a weapon and a severed head
October 18th
- Famous supernova that lit up skies in 1181 is now full of mysterious knots — Space photo of the week
- Can cuttlefish hypnotize their prey?
October 17th
- Has there ever been a mountain taller than Everest?
October 15th
- 'We're not a competitor to fusion. We are fusion': Inside the race to harness unlimited solar power in space
October 14th
- 'They cannot compete with the prices that fish factories will pay': How demand for fish meal takes priority over feeding people
- Teenager's rare autoimmune disorder caused her to hallucinate a flying green dinosaur — Diagnostic dilemma
October 13th
- Multicolored 'mosaic' of mini farms surrounds Taiwan's largest river — Earth from space
- 'The back of her head had been removed by a single blow from a sharp blade': Archaeological clues are revealing the horrific lives and deaths of the people enslaved by Vikings
October 12th
- Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus
- 'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived
October 11th
- 'News reports tweaked the science to speak to contemporary anxieties': How Neanderthal extinction is a projection of our own, modern fears
- 'Swamp-like colors' on the moon: New NASA report reveals strange sights from Artemis II mission — Space photo of the week
- How did Roman aqueducts get water to go uphill?
October 10th
- Does written language speed up or slow down cultural change?
October 9th
- Self-driving, solar-powered cars that talk to each other? What vehicles might look like in 10 years.
October 7th
- Diagnostic dilemma: Woman 'saw dead people' and fired a gun at them after taking too many aspirin
October 6th
- Sunlight trick transforms lost 'heart' of the Colorado River into a giant silver serpent — Earth from space
October 5th
- Urn with jaguars and skulls: A 1,400-year-old burial container depicting a deceased ruler's arrival to the Maya underworld
October 4th
- Auroras appear in broad daylight in Smile spacecraft's eerie first images of Earth ‪—‬ Space photo of the week
- Do animals experience schadenfreude?
October 3rd
- 'Giant tusks from Siberia were thought to be the horns of the mythical unicorn': What medieval people made of fossils before vertebrate paleontology
- Could we ever create artificial gravity on a spaceship?
October 1st
- Adversity shaped our evolution as a species. People raised in it may have underrecognized strengths because of it.