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Crew-12 splashes down after 237 days and 100 million miles

Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev are home from the space station.

9 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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Skull fragment puts Homo erectus in South Africa 2 million years ago

A newly described adult fossil from Drimolen is about 200,000 years older than adult Homo erectus fossils elsewhere.

8 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than thought

An Oxford-led study of fossils in Mongolia suggests animal life could date back 800 million years.

7 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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Drug target regrows knee cartilage in mice and human tissue

Blocking an age-related protein reversed cartilage loss and prevented arthritis after injury in a Stanford study.

6 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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Saturn at its brightest, and the Orionid meteors are coming

Saturn reached opposition on 4 October, and the Orionids peak on 21 to 22 October.

5 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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NASA picks mission to explore a pit that may lead to a Moon cave

The GIMLI project will probe the Marius Hills Pit with radar, seismic sensors and gravity readings.

4 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, trial finds

A two-year University of Liverpool trial found no significant difference between the two.

3 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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Nerve stimulation after practice could help new skills stick

Mice given vagus nerve stimulation after training remembered a motor skill better.

2 October 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily

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Crew-13 makes the fastest trip yet to the space station

The Dragon spacecraft Grace docked less than eight hours after launch.

1 October 2026 · Source: NASA

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Scientists were wrong about a strange ancient mammal for 40 years

A fossil from Mongolia shows zhelestids were not early placental mammals.

28 September 2026 · Source: ScienceDaily