The ESA has expanded its capability to communicate with scientific, exploration and space safety missions across our Solar System, with the inauguration of a 35 m-diameter deep space antenna on 4 October. [ + ]

Patients receiving the treatment were found to experience 75% less progression of the disease overall, compared to a matched cohort who were not receiving the treatment. [ + ]

Modern, cloud-based laboratory information management systems (LIMS) can help avoid many of the causes of increased turnaround time. [ + ]

The use of artificial intelligence for batch monitoring and digital twin development is redefining process control, claims Smriti Khera from Rockwell Automation. [ + ]

Now in their 35th year, the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes continue to highlight some of the nation's most significant science achievements, this year offering a total prize pool of $190,000. [ + ]

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says there is "mounting evidence finding a connection between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism", but this is disputed by medicines regulators, clinicians and scientists worldwide. [ + ]

In the food and beverage industry, laboratories must balance precision, speed and compliance to meet stringent safety and quality standards. [ + ]

For a long time, gene loss was seen as a kind of biological decay, but a new study shows it can be just the opposite: a smart evolutionary move. [ + ]

Astrophysicists have witnessed a collision between two black holes that was so loud, they were able to use it to test — and prove — Stephen Hawking's theory of black hole thermodynamics. [ + ]

A father's exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children, putting them at risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [ + ]

Sharks can famously regrow their teeth — but this ability might not be enough to ensure they can withstand the pressures of a warming world where oceans are getting more acidic. [ + ]

Researchers have identified new viruses, bacteria and parasites among bats in orchards in China's south-west — with two of the viruses being closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses. [ + ]

Researchers have revealed insights into the genetic make-up of wild varieties of common crops that show how domestication has changed crop traits over time. [ + ]

Researchers have used placebo pain relief to uncover a map-like system in the brainstem that controls pain differently depending on where it's felt in the body. [ + ]

CSIRO has opened a state-of-the-art facility to safeguard more than 13 million biodiversity specimens, as well as a pilot facility with Monash University to fast-track membrane innovation. [ + ]