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• Puerto Rico Went From No Drought to Extreme Drought in Just Months 10/09/2026
  Puerto Rico went from no drought to widespread extreme drought in just months as rainfall collapsed and water shortages spread. Puerto Rico usually enters its wet season in May. In 2026, however, the expected rains largely failed to arrive through late August, leaving much of the U.S. territory in drought. The prolonged dry spell has […]
  Lindsey Doermann, NASA Earth Observatory
• Scientists Just Overturned a 100-Year-Old Belief About Bacteria in the Lungs 10/09/2026
  New findings raise questions about the role of microbes living in the lungs. More than 35 trillion bacteria live throughout the human body, forming microbiomes in the gut, mouth, lungs, skin, and urogenital tract. Researchers increasingly recognize that these microbial communities are connected to both health and disease, but much about what individual microbes do […]
  Kelly Malcom, University of Michigan
• A Century-Old Mystery in Cat Kidneys May Finally Have an Answer 10/09/2026
  Lipid droplets in the kidneys may help cats maintain a consistent chemical “scent identity.” Scent marks can linger long after an animal has moved on, allowing urine and other chemical signals to carry information across both distance and time. Yet the molecules responsible for odor do not remain unchanged. They evaporate, break down, and shift […]
  Iwate University
• 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Reveals a Surprisingly Strong Primordial Magnetic Field 10/09/2026
  Ancient meteorite minerals reveal a surprisingly strong magnetic field from the solar system’s first 200,000 years. About 4.6 billion years ago, before the Sun and planets existed in their familiar forms, the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust. Within a few million years, this “solar nebula” collapsed and flattened into a […]
  Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Scientists May Have Cracked the Mystery of the Moon’s Unequal Hemispheres 10/09/2026
  Chang’e-6 samples suggest the Moon’s two very different sides may have formed when uneven heating drove magma from one hemisphere to the other. The Moon presents two dramatically different faces. Its Earth-facing hemisphere is rich in dark volcanic plains, while the farside is dominated by older highlands and a much thicker crust. New analyses of […]
  Science China Press
• Black Hole Winds Are 100 Times More Powerful Than Astronomers Thought 10/09/2026
  Astronomers once thought winds generated by supermassive black holes affected only their host galaxies, but a recent study found that their energy can also reach surrounding galaxies. Winds from a supermassive black hole can carry energy far beyond the galaxy that contains it. New observations show that this influence can extend roughly 300,000 light-years and […]
  Tohoku University
• Cutting Two Amino Acids Slowed Prostate Cancer in Mice 10/09/2026
  A newly identified link between amino acid metabolism and cholesterol production may help prostate tumors adapt to hormone therapy. Prostate cancer can find ways around treatments designed to deprive tumors of the hormones they need to grow. Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have now traced one possible route of resistance to amino acid metabolism, where a […]
  Weill Cornell Medicine
• Strength Training May Be the Secret to Healthy Aging 10/09/2026
  Strength training helps protect independence in aging by preserving the muscle needed for daily movement, balance, and resilience. Healthy aging means staying independent, moving well, and continuing to take part in daily life as the years pass. For many people, the most meaningful signs of good health are practical ones: standing up from a chair […]
  Christopher Hurst, Newcastle University
• “Cancer Melted Away”: Immunotherapy Delivers Striking Results in Bowel Cancer Trial 10/09/2026
  Pre-surgery immunotherapy kept a group of bowel cancer patients cancer-free for nearly three years, while personalized blood tests helped predict treatment response. Patients with a specific form of bowel cancer who received a short course of immunotherapy before surgery, rather than chemotherapy afterward, have remained cancer-free for nearly three years, according to updated findings from […]
  University College London
• A Strange Photosynthesis Trick Could Help Crops Survive a Hotter, Drier World 10/09/2026
  These new findings could help scientists adapt crops to dry environmental conditions in the future. Plants rely on sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich sugars and oxygen through different forms of photosynthesis. Drought can make that process far more difficult. A research group led by Wolfram Weckwerth at the University of Vienna […]
  University of Vienna