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Supervolcano under Japan is refilling with fresh magma

Seismic surveys of the Kikai caldera, site of the biggest eruption of the past 11,700 years, reveal a reservoir being recharged from below.

24 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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The vaccine, made for each patient's tumour, reduced the risk of the cancer returning or death by 42 per cent alongside immunotherapy.

23 October 2026 Source: The Guardian

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Risk was highest in the 90 days before people started treatment, in a study of more than 460,000 people in five countries.

22 October 2026 Source: Aston University

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Glaciers that end in lakes, oceans or ice shelves make up 3 per cent of the world's total but account for more than half of all glacier ice loss.

22 October 2026 Source: University of Birmingham

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Two rare fossils from Wyoming reveal the thickest belemnite ever found, a barrel-shaped cousin of modern squid that lived 160 million years ago.

21 October 2026 Source: ScienceDaily

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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