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Reprocessing archived Keck images, astronomers have confirmed a Jupiter-size planet less than a million years old, 55 times Earth's distance from its star, forming far faster than planet-formation models allow.

ARPA-H's new SPECTRA program, launched on 17 September 2026, seeks earlier and more accurate autism diagnosis and more precise care by combining biological, clinical, behavioral and real-world data with advanced computational tools.

Anthropic confirmed it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where its models can run physical experiments, its head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams saying the company is doing real lab work today. Anthropic says the facility's focus is fundamental biology rather than drug discovery, where it partners with pharma customers including Novo Nordisk.

On 21 September 2026 Türkiye announced a cuneiform tablet fragment from the Treaty of Kadesh, covering Articles 12 to 20 on people who fled between Egypt and the Hittite kingdom, unearthed in the Büyükkale area of the Hittite capital.

After Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins warned on 22 September 2026 that the draft order could undermine merit review, the White House dropped a plan for a panel to screen NIH grants, though it has not abandoned changing how research dollars are awarded.

Using South Africa's MeerKAT array, a Harvard & Smithsonian team reports the first direct detection of auroral radio emission from a planet outside the Solar System, implying a magnetic field of at least 1,250 gauss on the giant planet Beta Pictoris b.

Cambodia's Health Ministry reported on 28 September that a 49-year-old man in Oddar Meanchey province tested positive for H5N1, the country's sixth human case this year. He had direct contact with sick and dead chickens that the National Animal Health and Production Research Institute confirmed positive on 23 September, and he is isolated in hospital.

A Science Bulletin study of EP250704a, seen on 4 July 2025, finds the longest prompt X-ray flash ever recorded from a neutron star merger, nearly ten minutes long, as strong evidence that such mergers can leave a magnetar behind.

First Phase 2 results for eloraTZP - Lilly's once-weekly amylin drug eloralintide combined with tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) - in adults with obesity or overweight and type 2 diabetes, unveiled at an EASD symposium on amylin in Milan.

FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meets virtually, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET, to recommend influenza strains for the 2027 Southern Hemisphere vaccines, with a public FDA webcast.

A 28-year-old worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died on 2 October in Shelekhov, Siberia, with Rospotrebnadzor citing pneumonia of unknown cause while nearly 200 people were placed under observation amid unconfirmed plague rumours.

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 medicine Nobel for discoveries that allow researchers to control nerve-cell activity with light. Their work links light-sensitive proteins to tools for investigating brain circuits.

Francis Halzen receives the 2026 physics Nobel for IceCube and the detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. The award recognizes a new way to study energetic objects beyond the light they emit.

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai share the chemistry Nobel for reactions that amplify one molecular mirror image. Their work explains how chemical handedness can emerge and supports selective pharmaceutical synthesis.

The second kit in Tamiya's snap-together 1/35 dinosaur series, a 134 mm Fukuisaurus, is priced at 880 yen and due around 10 October 2026.

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford share the 2026 economics prize for models built on household and business decisions that help explain how policy can stabilise economies.

Applications for the 2026-27 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program close between 19 and 23 October 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern, depending on field, for about 1,500 new fellowships paying a $37,000 stipend a year.

The Tumaini Phase 2/3 ring-vaccination trial against Bundibugyo Ebola began in Bunia, DR Congo, on 23 October 2026, when the first participants were vaccinated with Ervebo. Two Bundibugyo-specific candidates from Oxford and Moderna are expected to join shortly.

The FDA has set 26 October 2026 as its priority-review goal date for GSK's bepirovirsen, an antisense drug aimed at a functional cure of chronic hepatitis B after two positive phase III B-Well trials.

Berlin Science Week runs 1-10 November 2026 with 300+ mostly free events from about 140 organisations and a festival centre at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt on 6-8 November.

The next full-proposal deadline for NSF's SBIR and STTR programs is 5 p.m. local time on 4 November 2026; Phase I awards run up to $305,000 and only applicants invited after a Project Pitch can submit.

The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer holds its 41st Annual Meeting 4-8 November 2026 at the Phoenix Convention Center, with keynotes on T cell recognition of cancer, personalized vaccines and NK cells.

AASLD's The Liver Meeting runs 5-9 November 2026 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, starting a day early this year to accommodate Diwali, with 2,900+ abstracts released.

The four-day summit runs 6-9 November 2026 at the Falling Walls Science House in Berlin, with 80+ events, about 2,000 attendees and the Breakthrough of the Year awards across nine categories on 9 November.

The gravitational-wave detectors start a six-month intermediate observing run before the fifth observing run. Both LIGO detectors take part, Virgo joins despite possible maintenance interruptions, and KAGRA joins as it becomes available.

The first stage of Euclid Data Release 1 puts out all raw data and calibrated images, catalogues and spectra over about 1,900 square degrees of sky. The higher-level products for galaxy clustering and weak lensing follow in mid-2027.

ESA publishes the fourth Gaia data release, the mission's first principal release, covering the first 5.5 years of observations. It adds astrometric time series, an exoplanet list and the software to work with them.

The 68th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition runs 12-15 December 2026 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, with a virtual option.

The FDA has assigned a 6 January 2027 PDUFA target date for ImmunityBio's supplemental BLA for Anktiva plus BCG in BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with papillary disease.

A 13-nation collaboration near Lund, Sweden is finishing a roughly €3 billion (about $3.5 billion) neutron research facility built around one of the world's most powerful linear particle accelerators.

Bristol Bay’s next sockeye run is expected during the summer of 2027, using the previous season’s fishing cadence as an estimate. ADF&G has not yet published its 2027 run-size forecast; the 2026 inshore run was 45.7 million fish.

The SKA's low-frequency telescope in Western Australia reaches its AA2 array assembly in 2027, the stage at which science verification observations begin.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative's extended strategy sets certification of wild poliovirus type 1 eradication by the end of 2027, with transmission in Afghanistan and Pakistan meant to stop first. Both countries still report cases.

Rubin's Data Release 1, built from the first year of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, is expected about two years after the survey began on 29 June 2026.

ESO's 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope takes its first test observations from Cerro Armazones in March 2029, with scientific first light following in December 2030.

The SKA's mid-frequency array in South Africa's Karoo reaches AA2 in 2029, two years after its Australian counterpart, opening science verification observations.

An upgrade to increase the LHC's collision rate roughly tenfold, extending the search for rare processes into the 2040s. Estimated date.

A neutrino beam fired 1,300 km from Fermilab to detectors a mile underground in South Dakota, hunting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.

ITER's 2024 baseline puts the start of research operations in 2034, opening a period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experiments at the fusion reactor in southern France.