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Research, health and the planet.
Brian Vasel/NOAA, public domain Carbon dioxide averaged 426.8 parts per million at the Earth's surface last year, the World Meteorological Organization said on 27 October, with methane and nitrous oxide also at record highs.
Geoff Charles, CC BY-SA 4.0 A JAMA study of more than 5.2 million US births found the share of newborns not given vitamin K more than doubled between 2017 and 2025, and those infants had higher rates of bleeding, including bleeding in the brain.
NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonnet, public domain The gamma-ray observatory re-entered over northern Sumatra on 4 November, almost 22 years after launch, after a commercial mission to raise its orbit was called off.
John Gregoire, NASA/JPL, public domain NASA's most distant spacecraft is about to sit so far away that a radio signal takes a full day to reach it, weeks after a brief loss of contact and a power-saving overhaul.
Alisdare Hickson, CC BY-SA 4.0 The 2026 Lancet Countdown report estimates that heat was linked to about 710,000 deaths in 2023 and, for the first time, attributes more than 70% of that toll to human-caused warming.
National Human Genome Research Institute, public domain A one-off infusion of an experimental base-editing therapy corrected more than half of the faulty gene copies in a 66-year-old man's liver. The peer-reviewed evidence so far is that single case.
NASA, public domain With the telescope expected to fall back into the atmosphere in 2033 or 2034, NASA issued a request for information on 29 October. Responses are due on 30 November.
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL, public domain Europe's planetary-defence spacecraft resolved Didymos and its small moon Dimorphos from about 1,280 km away, and ESA plans to release the first detailed images of Dimorphos on 25 November.