Science & Technology — October 22, 2026

Perseverance breaks off-world driving record. NASA's Mars rover has now traveled farther across another world than any vehicle before it, surpassing Opportunity's record with help from its advanced self-driving system.

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Physicists trap antimatter for a month. Scientists held a single positron, the electron's antimatter counterpart, in a trap for a full month for the first time, enabling unprecedented quantum measurements on antimatter.

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Denisovan face comes into focus. Archaeologists identified skull fragments from China as Denisovan, offering the clearest picture yet of what the elusive ancient human relatives looked like.

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UN report faults U.S. climate retreat. A new UN report projects a hotter world than last year's estimates as warming heads toward 2°C, citing U.S. policy shifts as a major factor.

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