A Nature study led by Oxford physicists finds bismuth sulfide cuts its rate of charge loss by about 75% versus comparably absorbing materials, easing a solar trade-off.
A peer-reviewed PNAS study using NASA's Perseverance rover found Martian dust particles as small as about 100 nanometers clinging to spacesuit materials, with implications for crews.
NASA's Swift observatory has ended science operations after atmospheric drag pulled it below 171 miles. A commercial boost attempt failed, and re-entry is expected within weeks.
ESA's Euclid telescope has found its first previously unknown comet, C/2026 S1 (Euclid), in September images; the Minor Planet Center confirmed it on Oct. 8 after ground follow-up.
The STAR experiment reports a 20% suppression of energetic particles in oxygen-oxygen collisions at 200 GeV, strong evidence of jet quenching in a small collision system.
Germany's Research Instruments has finished the first series-production inner vertical target for ITER's divertor, a tungsten-armored part built to take heat loads of up to 20 MW/m².
The NRC renewed Westinghouse's AP1000 design certification through 2066 and updated it with changes made while building and running Vogtle Units 3 and 4.
World Weather Attribution, ClimaMeter and Japanese government scientists all find warming boosted Typhoon Dujuan's September rain near Tokyo, with estimates ranging from 5% to 40%.
Iceberg A-81, about 1,550 square kilometers in size, has drifted from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf to the edge of South Georgia's shallow shelf, where satellite images show it slowing.
NOAA's 2026-27 Winter Outlook favors a warmer northern U.S. and a wetter South and East Coast from December to February, driven by an El Niño that forecasters say may become historic.
IBM connected two 120-qubit Nighthawk processors with four cable links and moved quantum states between them at 99% average fidelity, according to a preprint not yet peer reviewed.
A superconducting chip from startup Great Sky processed tokamak data at one million samples per second in tests led by Brookhaven National Laboratory. No paper has been published yet.
Quantinuum says color-code error correction on its Helios trapped-ion computer reached logical error rates near five per million, 10 times lower than its September record.
Apple's new iPad mini has an 8.5-inch OLED display, the A20 Pro chip, IP67 water and dust resistance and a 5.4 mm body. It starts at $699, with pre-orders from October 28.
Garmin's $799.99 Edge 1060 lets cyclists ask for routes, report hazards and hear ride stats by voice. Two cheaper Edge Explore 3 models launched the same day.
Meta's Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses, which it calls its first audio glasses, went on sale on October 13 from $349, weighing 43 grams with up to 12 hours of battery life.
Large language models learn by predicting the next token across vast amounts of text, then are fine-tuned with human feedback. Here is each stage, drawn from the original papers and NIST guidance.
Why solar eclipses happen only a few times a year, what observers see from first contact to totality, and NASA's dates for the next total solar eclipses in 2027, 2028 and 2030.
GPS receivers find their position by timing signals from satellites 20,200 km up. Without relativity corrections, those satellite clocks would run fast by about 38 microseconds a day and fixes would drift.
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