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A large research consortium has mapped the cells of a brain region tied to movement, decision-making and emotions, identifying cell types associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and reporting early gene therapy results in animals.
The first large data release from the Euclid mission, designed to help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, includes observations of more than 900 million galaxies, according to The Guardian and Reuters.
NASA is accepting applications for a new astronaut class tied to its Artemis lunar program, according to the Associated Press and the South China Morning Post, which link the recruitment to building a permanent lunar base.
Chinese state media say an unnamed Pakistani astronaut will join the Shenzhou-24 mission and become the first foreign national to visit China's space station.
NASA's 22-year-old Swift space telescope fell out of orbit on Wednesday and burned up over Indonesia, according to the agency, less than three months after a rescue spacecraft reportedly failed to boost it higher.
OpenAI says its models produced three new results and named outside expert groups to guide their review, but the reports reviewed by Vocemundi do not describe independent verification.
A shallow earthquake struck at sea off Vanuatu in the South Pacific; outlets citing the U.S. Geological Survey give different magnitudes, and The Hindu reported no immediate damage.
A South Korean-led study reported by France 24 and Phys.org says the painting matches a predawn sky about a month later than the June 1889 date art historians have long used.
University of Sydney researchers say nearly a quarter of more than 10,000 Australians with depression fit a proposed body-clock subtype that responded less well to standard antidepressants, while outside experts called the findings well-conducted but preliminary.
The Orionids, produced by debris from Halley's comet, are best seen on the night of 21-22 October 2026, with conditions improving after the Moon sets.
Japan has launched a spacecraft toward the Martian moon Phobos on a mission that aims to be the first to land on a Martian moon and bring samples back to Earth.
Japan's space agency is preparing to launch the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, which The Guardian reports is designed to collect soil from Phobos and return it to Earth in 2031.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on 16 October 2026; according to The Hindu, residents of the regional capital felt strong shaking, and some left their homes.
An earthquake struck Panama on Monday; agencies give magnitudes from 6.0 to 6.4, and the Associated Press said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Researchers say FRB 20240304B, detected with South Africa's MeerKAT telescope and traced to its host galaxy with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, originated when the universe was about 3 billion years old.
NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France's Sophie Adenot and Russia's Andrey Fedyaev returned to Earth on Thursday in a SpaceX capsule, after a stay extended by delays to their replacement crew.
Margaret Hamilton, who led development of onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo programme, died on 30 September at age 90, according to an announcement by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Researchers who analysed the DNA of Jonathan, described as the world's oldest known living land animal, suggest genetic traits and youthful-functioning cellular systems may be linked to his long life, but say the finding still needs validation.
An image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows morning sunlight on Martian crags formed billions of years ago, according to the South China Morning Post and Reuters.
France's Henri B. Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that helps explain how homochirality, the dominance of one mirror-image form of certain molecules in living things, can emerge spontaneously.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured the 82-year-old University of Wisconsin–Madison physicist for his work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole.
Three German and US scientists were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, multiple outlets reported.
The four-person crew docked aboard the Dragon capsule "Grace" after a flight that NASA officials described as the fastest by a US spacecraft to the International Space Station.
A crew of two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian astronaut lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 1 October 2026 after repairs to the Crew Dragon capsule.
A paper published in Nature on 30 September 2026 reports that the combined effect of butterfly wing patterns and flight makes it hard for predators to judge the insects' motion, but the reports do not describe how this was tested.