Inflation Jumps to 3.7% as Gas Prices Soar. What September’s Numbers Mean for Your Money

Consumer prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier in September, driven by a 34% jump in gasoline. Here’s where prices are rising, where they’re calm, and what it means for rates, Social Security and your budget.

FTC Subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic as 8 States Sue Over ChatGPT Safety

Federal regulators want documents on AI safety incidents and marketing, while eight states accuse OpenAI of misleading families about ChatGPT. Here's what each move means.

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon Is Here. Who Gets It, What It Costs and What to Watch

Google’s new flagship AI model is rolling out to paying subscribers and developers, with launch API prices that double after Nov. 30. Here’s what Google claims, and what still needs independent proof.

AI Coding Tools Are Linked to Outages at Most Big Software Teams, Surveys Find

Four in five engineering leaders say AI-written code caused a production incident in recent months, two industry surveys find. Teams are writing code faster but spending more time debugging it.

Flu Shot Season: What to Know Before the End of October

The CDC recommends getting a flu vaccine by the end of October. Here’s who should get one, what’s new for 2026–27 and answers to common questions.

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In a trial of 123 healthy older adults, high-intensity interval training trimmed fat while preserving lean mass. Other research is more mixed, and the differences were small.

Heat First, Then Add Fuel: Princeton Lab Maps a Cheaper Route to Fusion Ignition

Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory updated a 70-year-old fusion rule and found a less energy-hungry path to ignition, plus a warning about tungsten walls.

A Canadian Telescope Picks Up the Faint Glow of Hydrogen From 9 Billion Years Ago

The CHIME radio telescope detected a faint signal from hydrogen gas in the distant universe on its own, a step toward mapping cosmic expansion and testing ideas about dark energy.

Physicists Build the First Working Nuclear Clocks, and One Can Keep Itself in Tune

Two teams report the first clocks that tick with an atomic nucleus instead of electrons. A Vienna prototype even stabilizes itself. Here is how they work and what they could mean.

Hubble May Have Spotted a Planet Born After Its Star Died

A 25-year-old Hubble puzzle points to a giant planet that may have formed from a dead star’s leftovers. Astronomers stress it is still only a candidate.

Crew-12 Is Home After 237 Days in Orbit. Here’s What the Mission Did and What Comes Next

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 splashed down off Los Angeles on Oct. 8 after 237 days in orbit. Here’s a look at the crew, the spacewalk records, the science and what happens next.

NOAA Says This El Niño Could Become the Strongest on Record. Here’s What It Could Mean for Winter

NOAA now gives the current El Niño an 83% chance of reaching record strength by late 2026. Here’s what forecasters said and what a very strong El Niño typically means for U.S. winter weather.

A 2-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragment Is the First Adult Homo Erectus From a Famous South African Cave

A skull fragment from South Africa’s Drimolen cave site is the first adult Homo erectus found there, dated to about 2 million years ago — roughly 200,000 years older than adult fossils from Georgia.

South African Judge Navi Pillay Wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, who defended apartheid’s opponents and later led a war crimes tribunal and the UN human rights office, wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on peace and international law.

Loneliness and Isolation May Cost Years of Healthy Life, a Study of 277,000 Adults Finds

People who were both lonely and socially isolated could expect up to 5.8 fewer years free of mental disorders. Healthy habits helped with one of the two, but not the other.