https://wunder.news/health/2026/10/20/rectal-cancer-immunotherapy-fda-approval/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/media/rectal-cancer-immunotherapy-fda-approval/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3ac5f9FDA approves an immunotherapy that may spare some rectal cancer patients surgeryOn Monday the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for Jemperli alone in adults with untreated stage 2 or stage 3 locally advanced rectal cancer that is dMMR or MSI-H. In the 154-patient AZUR-1 study, almost three-fourths had not needed surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy after more than 2 years.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3ac5f94222026-10-20T03:38:52-07:00https://wunder.news/space/2026/10/20/mmx-launches-to-mars-moons/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/media/mmx-launches-to-mars-moons/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3ac5f9Japan's MMX is on its way to bring home a piece of a Martian moonJAXA launched the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft on an H3 rocket at 4:41 a.m. Japan time on October 20, 2026 (12:41 p.m. Pacific, October 19), on a world-first sample-return trip to Phobos. Separation came about 71 minutes after liftoff. The craft is due at Mars in August 2027 and is planned to return about 10 grams to Earth in 2031.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3ac5f94222026-10-20T03:38:52-07:00https://wunder.news/earth/2026/10/20/satellites-map-human-water-fingerprint/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/media/satellites-map-human-water-fingerprint/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3ac5f9Gravity satellites map where people are reshaping Earth's waterNASA's GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites measured land-water trends from April 2002 to November 2025, and a peer-reviewed analysis found 40 regions strongly tied to human activity. In northern India, retreating glaciers accounted for only 15% of the decline.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3ac5f94222026-10-20T03:38:52-07:00https://wunder.news/technology/2026/10/20/robot-assembles-parts-by-feel/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/media/robot-assembles-parts-by-feel/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3ac5f9An MIT robot fits parts together by feel, with no cameraAn MIT team reports that a robot arm inserted pegs using only its joint positions and speeds, with no camera or touch sensors, succeeding in 73% of real-world trials after training only in simulation. The paper is an October 16 arXiv preprint that other scientists have not yet reviewed.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3ac5f94222026-10-20T03:38:52-07:00https://wunder.news/discovery/2026/10/20/giant-isopod-new-species-tubingen/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/media/giant-isopod-new-species-tubingen/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3ac5f9A giant deep-sea isopod in a German museum drawer is a new speciesScientists named Bathynomus tuebingoborikensis from a female specimen 322 millimeters long, collected at 500 meters off Puerto Rico and kept at the University of Tübingen. The description appears in one peer-reviewed paper in Scientific Reports.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3ac5f94222026-10-20T03:38:52-07:00https://wunder.news/earth/2026/10/19/thwaites-glacier-sea-level-doubles/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/media/thwaites-glacier-sea-level-doubles/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3d24ecThwaites Glacier may double its sea-level share by 2100A peer-reviewed ice model, tuned to satellite measurements from 1996 to 2023, projects up to 30 millimeters (plus or minus 6) of sea-level rise from Thwaites Glacier by 2100 under steady climate, about double an older model average of 15.2 millimeters.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3d24ec4432026-10-19T01:03:16-07:00https://wunder.news/space/2026/10/19/jaxa-mmx-phobos-sample-launch/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/media/jaxa-mmx-phobos-sample-launch/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3d24ecJapan's MMX is set to launch today to bring home a piece of a Martian moonJAXA's MMX spacecraft is scheduled to launch Monday, October 19, at 3:41 p.m. Eastern (4:41 a.m. Tuesday in Japan) to survey Mars's moons and return a sample of Phobos to Earth in 2031. Backup launch dates run to November 9.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3d24ec4432026-10-19T01:03:16-07:00https://wunder.news/technology/2026/10/19/nist-p256-curve-seed-mystery-solved/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/media/nist-p256-curve-seed-mystery-solved/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3d24ecResearchers trace a key encryption seed to a 1990s clockAnthropic reports that the NIST P-256 curve seed came from an old random-number function started by a computer clock in 1997 or 1998, making a deliberate backdoor much less plausible.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3d24ec4432026-10-19T01:03:16-07:00https://wunder.news/health/2026/10/19/brain-flips-images-15-times-second/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/media/brain-flips-images-15-times-second/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3d24ecPreprint: monkey brains flip between seen and unseen images 15 times a secondA not-yet-reviewed preprint reports that rhesus macaque brains alternated about 15 times a second between a seen face and a hidden one during a steady percept.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3d24ec4432026-10-19T01:03:16-07:00https://wunder.news/discovery/2026/10/19/earhart-taraia-object-nikumaroro-ruled-out/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/media/earhart-taraia-object-nikumaroro-ruled-out/lead-16x9.jpg?v=3d24ecExpedition says Nikumaroro object is trees, not a planeA Purdue and Archaeological Legacy Institute expedition found the Taraia Object on Nikumaroro was tree debris with a carbonate coat, not Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3d24ec4432026-10-19T01:03:16-07:00https://wunder.news/earth/2026/10/18/reef-corals-44-percent-threatened/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/media/reef-corals-44-percent-threatened/lead-16x9.jpg?v=e7e573Assessment finds rising extinction risk for reef-building coralsA reassessment classifies 44% of reef-building coral species with sufficient data as threatened with extinction. Its evidence runs through 2020, before the fourth global bleaching event.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=e7e5733622026-10-18T09:12:25-07:00https://wunder.news/health/2026/10/18/brain-mold-c-bantiana-detections-rise/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/media/brain-mold-c-bantiana-detections-rise/lead-16x9.jpg?v=e7e573One lab reports more detections of a rare brain-infecting moldA University of Washington laboratory detected more Cladophialophora bantiana cases, including an increase relative to submitted sample numbers. The findings do not establish the infection rate in the general population or explain the increase.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=e7e5733622026-10-18T09:12:25-07:00https://wunder.news/technology/2026/10/18/google-willow-magic-state-cultivation/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/media/google-willow-magic-state-cultivation/lead-16x9.jpg?v=e7e573Google tests a way to prepare more reliable quantum statesGoogle's Willow experiment reports roughly a 40-fold reduction in state-preparation error using magic state cultivation. Only about 8% of attempts were retained after checks for detected errors.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=e7e5733622026-10-18T09:12:25-07:00https://wunder.news/space/2026/10/18/first-green-star-white-dwarf/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/media/first-green-star-white-dwarf/lead-16x9.jpg?v=e7e573Astronomers identify a star that would appear green up closeUniversity of Warwick researchers identify a white dwarf whose light would appear green to human eyes from sufficiently close up. Its illustrated appearance is a scientific rendering, not a resolved photograph.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=e7e5733622026-10-18T09:12:25-07:00https://wunder.news/discovery/2026/10/18/invictibellatrix-megaraptoran-isle-of-wight/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/media/invictibellatrix-megaraptoran-isle-of-wight/lead-16x9.jpg?v=e7e573A museum fossil overlooked since 1924 is Europe's first megaraptor dinosaurA braincase found on the Isle of Wight and held by London's Natural History Museum since 1924 has been named Invictibellatrix amberina, the first megaraptoran dinosaur known from Europe. It lived about 120 million years ago; its size is estimated from relatives because only the braincase survives.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=e7e5733622026-10-18T09:12:25-07:00https://wunder.news/earth/2026/10/17/kilauea-episode-55-lava-fountains/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/media/kilauea-episode-55-lava-fountains/lead-16x9.jpg?v=dabb8bKīlauea resumes tall lava fountains after nearly two monthsKīlauea's latest fountaining episode began before dawn Saturday, with the north fountain reaching just over 700 feet by 5 a.m. Hawaiʻi Standard Time. Smaller fountains and lava flows had continued between the tall fountaining episodes.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=6ac35d3062026-10-17T13:19:29-07:00https://wunder.news/health/2026/10/17/us-measles-cases-top-4400-2026/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/media/us-measles-cases-top-4400-2026/lead-16x9.jpg?v=dabb8bU.S. measles cases reach 4,410 through October 15Reported confirmed measles cases through October 15 nearly double the total for all of 2025. The U.S. public health agency reports that 10% of this year's cases resulted in hospitalization.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=6ac35d3062026-10-17T04:40:30-07:00https://wunder.news/discovery/2026/10/17/shanidar-neanderthal-care-burial/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/media/shanidar-neanderthal-care-burial/lead-16x9.jpg?v=dabb8bNeanderthal remains add evidence of care and repeated burialA study describes Shanidar A, an older Neanderthal deposited around 75,000 years ago in Iraqi Kurdistan. Tooth wear indicates survival after a facial injury, while the burial cluster adds evidence of repeated, intentional placement of the dead.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=6ac35d3062026-10-17T13:19:29-07:00https://wunder.news/space/2026/10/17/iss-roll-out-solar-arrays-power/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/media/iss-roll-out-solar-arrays-power/lead-16x9.jpg?v=dabb8bSpace station completes roll-out solar power upgradeThe U.S. space agency reports that the station's solar power upgrade is complete. Its eight roll-out arrays are expected to add more than 160 kilowatts for research and operations.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=6ac35d3062026-10-17T13:19:29-07:00https://wunder.news/earth/2026/10/16/nasa-satellites-track-2026-el-nino/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/media/nasa-satellites-track-2026-el-nino/lead-16x9.jpg?v=480c53Satellites track El Niño through a changing PacificNASA satellites are following warmer water and changing ocean heights as El Niño develops. Continued measurements will track its progression and effects on marine ecosystems.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=480c533232026-10-17T13:07:55-07:00https://wunder.news/discovery/2026/10/16/white-sands-footprints-climate-change/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/media/white-sands-footprints-climate-change/lead-16x9.jpg?v=480c53White Sands study reveals a changing world around ancient footprintsResearchers examined the environment around ancient human footprints at White Sands in New Mexico. Their findings describe substantial environmental changes within individual human lifetimes.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=480c533232026-10-17T13:07:55-07:00https://wunder.news/space/2026/10/16/hubble-edge-on-spiral-ngc-1827/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/media/hubble-edge-on-spiral-ngc-1827/lead-16x9.jpg?v=480c53Hubble reveals dust lanes in a spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-onHubble's image reveals rusty-brown dust lanes and bright-blue regions where stars are likely forming. The observation belongs to a larger survey testing explanations of small galaxies.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=480c533232026-10-17T13:07:55-07:00https://wunder.news/technology/2026/10/16/nist-microcomb-chip-light-ruler/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/media/nist-microcomb-chip-light-ruler/lead-16x9.jpg?v=480c53Researchers demonstrate a tiny light ruler for portable clocksResearchers demonstrated a chip-based instrument that measures light without bulky supporting laboratory equipment. Further development could help integrate the technology into portable precision clocks.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=480c533232026-10-17T13:07:55-07:00https://wunder.news/space/2026/10/15/artemis-ii-heat-shield-damage-cut/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/media/artemis-ii-heat-shield-damage-cut/lead-16x9.jpg?v=b27bd2NASA analysis confirms Artemis II heat shield performed as expectedNASA's post-flight assessment finds substantially fewer spots of lost charred material after Artemis II than after Artemis I. Engineers continue examining samples to inform future heat shields.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=b27bd23072026-10-17T13:07:53-07:00https://wunder.news/earth/2026/10/15/amazon-fires-el-nino-satellite/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/media/amazon-fires-el-nino-satellite/lead-16x9.jpg?v=b27bd2Satellite analysis finds additional fires in Brazil's AmazonA NASA account describes increased Amazon fire activity and satellite analysis identifying fires missed by standard counts around Santarém. Smoke, clouds and tree cover can obscure burning, while forecasts indicate further fire activity ahead.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=b27bd23072026-10-17T13:07:53-07:00https://wunder.news/technology/2026/10/15/nasa-solid-state-batteries-moon/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/media/nasa-solid-state-batteries-moon/lead-16x9.jpg?v=b27bd2NASA lunar battery prototypes survive extreme cold in testsNASA reports that prototype solid-state batteries operated at minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit with slightly reduced performance and survived colder exposure without damage. Extreme-cold survival still requires warming before operation.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=b27bd23072026-10-17T13:07:53-07:00https://wunder.news/discovery/2026/10/15/lysa-gora-amber-route-hilltop/https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/media/lysa-gora-amber-route-hilltop/lead-16x9.jpg?v=b27bd2Finds link a Polish hilltop to ancient amber exchangeAn excavation report identifies Łysa Góra as a fortified settlement combining production, ritual and long-distance amber exchange. A bronze helmet may indicate direct contact with southern communities, an interpretation requiring further research.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=b27bd23072026-10-17T13:07:53-07:00https://wunder.news/2026/10/20/https://wunder.news/posters/2026-10-20/daily-show-pipeline.jpgWunder News 2026-10-20Today’s stories. One curious world.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-20/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3ac5f94222026-10-20T12:00:00-07:00https://wunder.news/2026/10/19/https://wunder.news/posters/2026-10-19/daily-show-pipeline.jpgWunder News 2026-10-19Today’s stories. One curious world.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-19/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=3d24ec4432026-10-19T12:00:00-07:00https://wunder.news/2026/10/18/https://wunder.news/posters/2026-10-18/daily-show-pipeline.jpgWunder News 2026-10-18Today’s stories. One curious world.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-18/pipeline/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=e7e5733622026-10-18T12:00:00-07:00https://wunder.news/2026/10/17/https://wunder.news/posters/2026-10-17/daily-show-pipeline.jpgWunder News 2026-10-17Today’s stories. One curious world.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-17/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=6ac35d3062026-10-17T12:00:00-07:00https://wunder.news/2026/10/16/https://wunder.news/posters/2026-10-16/daily-show-pipeline.jpgWunder News 2026-10-16Today’s stories. One curious world.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-16/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=480c533232026-10-16T11:10:53-07:00https://wunder.news/2026/10/15/https://wunder.news/posters/2026-10-15/daily-show-pipeline.jpgWunder News 2026-10-15Today’s stories. One curious world.https://media.wunderlearning.com/wunder-news/2026-10-15/v2/daily-show-16x9.mp4?v=b27bd23072026-10-16T00:35:41-07:00