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Orionid meteor shower peaks this week

Fragments of Halley's comet will streak across the sky, with the best views after the Moon sets in the early hours of 22 October.

19 October 2026 Source: The Guardian

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A study of the Kikai-Akahoya eruption 7,300 years ago finds some communities shrank, while others grew as survivors moved.

18 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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NASA engineers say the new observatory's main camera is producing sharper images than its designers predicted.

17 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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The ice shrank to 4.6 million square kilometres in September, and the winter peak matched the record low set in 2025.

16 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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Bowel and ovarian cancers rose only in younger adults, and obesity alone cannot explain the trend, researchers say.

15 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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Rocks from Chang'e-6 suggest heat from Earth's tides drove molten rock across the young Moon, thickening the far side's crust.

14 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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Swiss scientists have charted where lipids sit in the mouse brain, and found pregnancy reshapes them more than sex differences do.

13 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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Late fourth-century coins at a newly found fort near Frenni Fawr suggest the Mabinogion's tale of Magnus Maximus had a basis in fact.

12 October 2026 Source: The Guardian

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A Cochrane review of 80 trials and nearly 30,000 people found high-certainty evidence for nicotine e-cigarettes.

11 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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A study of 277,000 adults found the effect was strongest in men, and that a healthy lifestyle did not offset it.

10 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily