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- October 9th
- 'October is the ideal time to get vaccinated': Flu season is kicking off early, experts say
- Scientists have identified a 'protein signature' in blood that could predict healthy aging
- Cool chemistry trick allows new tattoos to 'turn on and off'
- Bronze ring with Lighthouse of Alexandria engraving discovered at palace on submerged island in Egypt
- South Korean 'robot dog' became first to run a marathon on a single battery charge — now we know how
- October 8th
- Big dogs age faster at an epigenetic level, new study finds
- 'Freakish' discovery of 9 million-year-old capybara tooth supports idea that Atacama wasn't always a desert
- James Webb telescope traces a record-breaking radio signal to the ancient universe
- The Milky Way is one galaxy — but it used to be thousands, new simulations reveal
- The central Pacific Ocean just broke a temperature record. Experts say it might signal a new kind of El Niño.
- Why are dengue cases surging in Florida this year? An 'unlucky' combination of factors, experts say
- OpenAI claims we've entered the AGI era — has GPT-6 Astra really demonstrated general intelligence?
- October 7th
- Jonathan the tortoise has lived to 194 years old — now scientists think they know why
- 'It looks like a chimera' — 168 million years ago, a strange platypus-like mammal relative lived in China alongside dinosaurs
- 1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth
- 'Completely unexpected': Astronomers spy never-before-seen 'phoenix planet' rising from the ashes of a dead star
- 'Sexy Mantis,' obscene orangutan and prancing sparrowhawk feature in 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
- The Draconids, an unpredictable shower that can bring hundreds of meteors per minute, has begun
- 'Zombie cells' may drive aging, and scientists are devising new ways to get rid of them
- Roboticists showcase tiny, frog-like robot that can hop across wet surfaces and swim
- October 6th
- Earth is in the firing line of a strange new type of cosmic object: a 'microblazar'
- Archaeologists discover a child's skull built into the floor of a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian house
- 'She knew she had something really important on her hands': Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick, study suggests
- Mpox is still spreading in the US — here's what to know about vaccines, symptoms and treatment
- 'Mpox has not disappeared': Why the infectious disease is still spreading in the US and may be here to stay
- The ozone layer was supposed to be healing. So why is this year's Antarctic ozone hole so big?
- October 5th
- Set your alarm: Jupiter will disappear behind the crescent moon in a once-in-a-decade alignment tomorrow
- Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study finds
- 1,800-year-old temple to Mars and statue of Victory unearthed at Roman military fort in Germany
- New quantum chip taps into weird quasiparticles to get qubits to communicate over long distances
- October 4th
- October 3rd
- October 2nd
- Rare two-headed turtle hatchling discovered on Cape Cod
- Colorful wildflowers bloom across Chile's Atacama Desert in wake of 'super' El Niño
- Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests
- The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests
- 'A kind of Rosetta Stone': AI decodes 217-year-old secret letter ordered by Napoleon
- 'It's a portrait of their actual ancestor': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants
- October 1st
- Your voice may reveal how fast you're aging, new AI 'speech clock' suggests
- Physicists unveil the most accurate atomic clock ever — and it could literally redefine the second
- Watch the world's smallest crocodiles snatch bats in their hidden underground lair — a behavior never seen before
- 'This is what happened with Claude and me': AI's failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthrough
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