In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

NASA, CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and the German Aerospace Center signed a joint statement of intent to begin coordinated, preparatory work toward an Earth-based demonstrator to learn how to grow crops on the Moon.

The new push loosens U.S. regulations for sterilizing spacecraft bound for the Red Planet and calls for modernizing the science of “planetary protection”

Saphier’s nomination now heads to the full Senate for a vote

A shorter daily eating window was linked to improved eating habits, with no clear advantage in measured appetite hormones or inflammation markers.

The pitch and emotional content of your speech are important predictors of accelerated ageing, researchers find.

Anxious and Hairy: Why do we have hair – on our heads and elsewhere? A new book explores

Population-scale simultaneous profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression across immune cells reveals regulatory architectures that connect genetic variants to disease.

The scent of a father can help infants synchronize their brain activity with unfamiliar adults. A recent study reveals that paternal body odor boosts positive arousal and neural coupling, helping babies expand their social connections.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status, including refugees and sex-trafficking victims, are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1.

Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.

Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support aquatic life.

Immune dysregulation and physiological neural activation converge to trigger autoimmune alopecia.

Curiosity marked 5,000 days on Mars with a vivid new postcard showing its tracks across Gale Crater.

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

The UK has avoided gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar.

Unmanned ground and air vehicles are changing warfare as we know it

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when combined with a complementary medicine

It’s a busy skywatching month ahead. The first full week of October sees two top-notch skywatching events, with Saturn reaching opposition, and the Moon occulting Jupiter for North America on October 6th. This month’s occultation of Jupiter by the Moon is one of the best-placed and top skywatching events for 2026, while Saturn puts on a fine show near opposition.

How a decades-long quest led to the first gene therapy for deafness caused by a mutation.

Scientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on whether they’re breathing in or out.

Plus: Trump and tech executives have agreed to “self-regulate” AI.

A jury weighs in on whether a latecomer is simply using their time efficiently or disrespecting their colleagues.

A nearly 2,000-year-old volcanic disaster is helping scientists refine the clocks used to reconstruct Earth’s history.

A new psychology study reveals that minor musical keys evoke the sublime, major keys predict beauty, and visual elements heavily dominate our overall aesthetic responses when we experience audio and visual media simultaneously.

Rapidly expanding AI use within the government is numbing departments to its profound threats. And try arguing with a faceless digital bureaucrat, warns a British civil servant

When war broke out in October 2023, an Israeli brain-imaging study was already underway. Comparing children scanned before and during the war, researchers found that attachment-related characteristics were tied to different patterns of emotional brain connectivity.

As glaciers retreat, steep Arctic fjords may face rising landslide-tsunami risks that could be reduced through better monitoring and faster warnings.

Imma-B60 produced by innovative strategy that might enable discovery of new allotropes of other elements

Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.

Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.

New research involving giving mice a human cell-based cortex brings to mind “Flowers for Algernon” and “Pinky and the Brain,” writes STAT Lab Dish columnist Paul Knoepfler.

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat and extreme weather around the globe

In accordance with a contract on-ramp clause, NASA has added Blue Origin’s New Glenn 9x4 launch service to the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract. The New

A subtle change in household power habits could eliminate the need to build new gas power plants, say researchers studying energy usage

NASA will participate in the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from Monday, Oct. 5, to Friday, Oct. 9, highlighting

The gene-editing company Beam Therapeutics is alleging that one of its scientists stole intellectual property and used it to co-found a Chinese company that made a deal with VC firms.

A misidentified museum fossil has revealed Jeanerpeton mazonensis, a distinct amphibian ancestor that lived near present-day Chicago 309 million years ago.

Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.

A newly identified Amazonian killifish is known from just three disturbed forest pools, prompting researchers to call for habitat protection.

Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome

Since their first discovery in 1995, hot Jupiter exoplanets (hot Jupiters, for short) quickly challenged our understanding of exoplanet formation and evolution, including exoplanetary system architecture. This is because, as their name implies, they orbit at extremely close distances to their host stars, ranging from a few days to a few hours. Some of their orbits are even oval-shaped, called eccentric in the scientific community, meaning their orbit is oval-shaped. But could such an orbit cause a hot Jupiter to completely vanish from view, preventing astronomers from studying it?

In a small study, a drug increased calorie burning without clearly switching on brown fat, the heat-producing tissue scientists hope to harness to help people lose weight.

Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies that indicate that a spacecraft could identify evidence of life much more easily than previously thought.

By targeting the retina’s protective barrier, oral Danegaptide could help treat diabetic eye damage earlier, though its lasting benefits remain to be tested.