Science
- Personalised mRNA shot from Moderna and Merck cuts melanoma relapse
A messenger RNA vaccine designed individually for each patient lowered the risk of melanoma coming back in a phase 3 trial, the last stage of testing…
- NASA ends Swift, its gamma-ray burst hunter since 2004
NASA has brought the science mission of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a close, retiring one of its main tools for watching the most violent…
- The Starry Night: a July hypothesis still open to testing
Can the sky in The Starry Night help explain what Vincent van Gogh observed? A study published on October 22, 2026, in Scientific Reports proposes a…
- An isolated positron prepares a closer matter–antimatter comparison
A team at Northwestern University has kept a positron in an electromagnetic trap for several months and distinguished its quantum states. Published on 21…
- Icy moons: what it means to look for a habitable world
The Royal Society of Chemistry lists a London lecture by Michele Dougherty on 22 October about the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. The event offers an…
- A predawn opening could help skywatchers catch October’s Orionids
The next opportunity to watch the Orionid meteors is approaching on the night of 21–22 October 2026. NASA and the American Meteor Society identify that…
- Mouse study points to an immune pathway in radiation lung injury
A study published in Nature Communications on October 20 examines a possible contributor to lung injury after radiotherapy. In a mouse model, researchers…
- At −253°C, two experimental alloys keep cracks in check
Extreme cold can make a metal harder to deform while leaving it more vulnerable to cracking. Researchers have studied two experimental alloys based on…
- Webb maps an unexpectedly dense core in an ancient galaxy cluster
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal more about the structure of XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster known since 2014. The findings were…