Top News – Science
Press review · Tuesday, 27 October 2026
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space.com
Starship just reached orbit for the 1st time. What's next for the SpaceX megarocket?
Starship still has some work to do before it's fully up and running.
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Wow! Watch SpaceX's Starship megarocket deploy satellites into orbit for 1st time ever (photos, video)
Construction of the Starlink V3 satellite megaconstellation is officially underway.
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arstechnica.com
Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation
We couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers."
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usatoday.com
Supreme Court to consider Boulder wildfire climate-change lawsuit
After devastating 2021 wildfire, the Supreme Court is considering whether Boulder can sue fossil fuel companies for contributing to climate change.
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SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks
Starship had already flown 99 percent of the way to low-Earth orbit. Monday's flight added the last bit.
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SpaceX launches Starship into orbit for 1st time — largest rocket ever built notches key milestone on dramatic Flight 14 test
Starship has gone where it has never gone before.
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nbcnews.com
SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket into orbit for the first time
Elon Musk’s rocket company aims for Starship to circle the globe six times over almost 10 hours before a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
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theguardian.com
Bangkok declared a ‘disaster zone’ after flooding, as rainstorms shift direction
Capital city submerged in waist-high flood water, while elsewhere Hurricane Nolo threatens Hawaii’s Big Island
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indiatoday.in
How China is training Pakistani pilots to work and live on Chinese space station
China is training two Pakistani pilots for a planned Tiangong mission. The flight would make one of them Pakistan's first astronaut and Tiangong's first foreign visitor.
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SpaceX's Starship megarocket launching to orbit for 1st time ever on Sept. 28: Watch it live
Liftoff is scheduled for Monday (Sept. 28) at 8:15 a.m. EDT (1215 GMT).
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mashable.com
SpaceX's Starship is about to attempt a 10-hour spaceflight: Watch live.
Getting to space was the easy part.
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yahoo.com
A mysterious organ in the sperm whale's head gives it the power to sink ships
A survivor of the shipwreck that inspired the novel Moby Dick had a theory about how a sperm whale could destroy a vessel many times its size – 200 years later, he's been proved right.
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tech.yahoo.com
Team Of 37,000 AI Agents Discovered a Promising Lung-Cancer Drug
AI drug discovery: 37,000 agents evaluated CD276 as a lung-cancer target, a strategy later validated by an FDA breakthrough therapy designation.
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scmp.com
OpenAI says its AI agents posted user images online in error
The company’s AI tools accessed websites of US federal agencies, saying it has removed most uploaded images that were not publicly listed.
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After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild
There is always a tension that comes with seeing the first of anything fly."
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theregister.com
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’
The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent
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Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals
Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment
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alaskapublic.org
For the first time, Fat Bear Week fans can vote for entire bear families
Park rangers say they included the families to celebrate the work of mama bears, who have to work extra hard to fatten not only themselves, but also their smaller cubs.
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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pbs.org
Battle for heavyweight crown begins as Alaska’s Fat Bear Week opens
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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foxweather.com
Sea turtle makes rare, first-ever nest on West Coast beach thanks to warm waters from looming 'Super' El Niño
A rare moment along the beach in Orange County, California, captured an Olive Ridley sea turtle digging a nest and laying eggs.
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Fall has officially arrived. Here's what to know about the autumnal equinox
At 8:05 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, the sun will be directly overhead at the equator.
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popsci.com
Fat Bear Week Day 1: It's a battle of the moms and single females
Bear 132 found her lost cub while Bear 909 lost both her cubs, one in an attack by another bear competing today.
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Worsening El Nino threatens Asia with severe drought, potentially threatening global food security
El Nino already is depleting water supplies, hurting fish catches and jeopardizing Asia's globally important agriculture industry.
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nypost.com
Super El Niño breaks record months before peak as scientists warn of worst season in 1,000 years
While still months away from reaching its peak, the super El Niño is already shattering temperature records.
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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California declares state of emergency as potentially historic Super El Niño looms
California declared a state of emergency Monday to begin mobilizing state resources ahead of an anticipated historic El Niño storm season this winter. The emergency proclamation states that California will prepare for anticipated impacts, including strong storms and coastal flooding.
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It’s Fat Bear Week. Meet this year’s heavyset hopefuls
On Tuesday, you can vote online for the one you want to be crowned the chubby champion.
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kqed.org
Here’s What California Is Learning From Solar Panels Built Over Irrigation Canals | KQED
California solar panels tower over canals in Turlock, proving to save water, produce clean energy and improve local water quality.
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world
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China’s stranglehold on rare earths must be ended, says hopeful supplier to EU
Rafael Moreno, whose company has opened demo plant in Brazil, says market is ‘nervous’ as Trump-Xi summit looms
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calmatters.org
Moss Landing's burned battery plant is on fire — again
California regulators still haven't determined what caused last year's fire at Moss Landing. On Friday, the site's leftover batteries ignited again.
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Meet Earth’s newest wild cat species, living in Bolivia and the first named in over a century
A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight: at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years after being taken in by a local family.
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After being sidelined, Boeing's Starliner to get starring role in NASA's spaceflight plans
They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that."
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Swimmer killed in shark attack off popular Western Australia beach
At approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, emergency services were called to a reported shark-related incident in the water off Sorrento Beach.
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interestingengineering.com
World-first: US scientists observe quantum jump in sound in real-time
Stanford researchers have achieved a global first by measuring a quantum jump in sound in real time.
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Climate change made deadly Nepal glacier and rock collapse more likely, analysis finds
Human-caused global warming thinned glaciers and thawed mountain permafrost, likely helping to destabilize the Himalayan slope that collapsed last month and unleashed catastrophic flooding across Nepal, according to a report released Thursday.
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nbcnews.com
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds
Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August
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nbcnews.com
NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon
The crater, which is bigger than the Roman Colosseum, is the result of a powerful impact two years ago.
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Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms
The King of the Dinosaurs had an internal temperature similar to you.
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US Space Force says it operates weapons in orbit: 'Our aim is deterrence'
“She locked onto the target, optimized her weapon system and waged electromagnetic warfare against a determined adversary.”
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This 1,600-pound ocean giant just went somewhere no other OCEARCH-tagged shark has ever been
Contender, the largest male white shark ever tagged by OCEARCH in the Atlantic, is making history for the organization. He has officially ventured into northern waters farther than any other shark in their database has ever reached.
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US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons into space
Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China. in Earth’s orbit
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nbcnews.com
EPA to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
The move would overturn a 2024 Biden administration rule requiring power plants to control planet-warming pollution.
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Trump’s EPA reportedly poised to axe carbon pollution rules for power plants
Advocates and experts describe the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks as gifts to polluters at expense of planet
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James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the sun far beyond Neptune
These observations push Hubble's and JWST's abilities to the limit.
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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shares zero-G curly hair tips from the ISS (video)
I was once an analog astronaut, and I also have curly hair, so this hit home for me.