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Federal regulators will stop taking comments and requests to intervene at 5 p.m. Eastern Time (1 p.m. Alaska Time) on Monday, Nov. 2, on a proposal to place an AI data center on the floor of Alaska's Cook Inlet. The project, filed by DeepGreen Cook Inlet SPV LLC under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission docket P-15423, would power up to 66 underwater server pods with roughly 100 megawatts from about 330 to 350 tidal turbines west of Nikiski, according to the project's FERC record as tracked by Alaska AI HQ.

Update Note: This article reports new information involving the scientific gap left by NASA's Swift observatory following Nature World News'earlier coverage. Latest verified update: NASA mission page, updated Oct. 26, 2026. No official reentry date or location had been published as of Oct. 28, 2026 (Eastern Time).

Montana wildlife officials have confirmed epizootic hemorrhagic disease and bluetongue in dead deer and pronghorn across south-central Montana, as the state's general deer and elk rifle season gets underway. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said samples from several carcasses in its Region 5 tested positive for both viruses, with dead and dying animals found especially along rivers, according to the agency's Oct. 16 release published by Montana Outdoor.

hurricane season in the combined Eastern and Central Pacific has produced more storm energy than any season on record, and it is not over yet. Accumulated cyclone energy, a measure that combines how strong storms get and how long they last, reached 333.2 by mid-October, passing the previous record of about 318 set in 2018, NOAA Climate Prediction Center forecaster Matthew Rosencrans told the

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A pale, finger-shaped fungus that grows from the roots of Chinese cork oak trees in southwestern China has been described as a new species, new genus and entirely new fungal family. Named Dianjunus rex and nicknamed D-Rex, it produces fruiting structures up to 50 centimeters (about 20 inches) tall and weighing up to 2.2 kilograms (about 4.9 pounds), the tallest known among the sac fungi, researchers reported in

A Lexington-based startup has proposed building up to six nuclear reactors along the Ohio River in Lewis County, Kentucky, a state that has never had a commercial nuclear power plant. The Nuclear Company says its Prosperity One campus near Vanceburg, at a site called Carrs Bottom, would start with two Westinghouse AP1000 units and aim to begin construction in 2028, according to World Nuclear News.

A cacao plant edited to resist one of the world's most damaging crop diseases is now being evaluated in field collaborations with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and Penn State has licensed it to a company planning to scale it up. The university announced the next steps on Oct. 27, according to a Penn State release.

Living cells in human breast milk process nutrients in strikingly different ways, a new imaging study from the University of Western Australia has found. Tracking labeled glucose and amino acids at the scale of single cells, researchers saw some immune cells in milk turning glucose into fat droplets, while milk-producing cells actively released protein and burned energy, according to a UWA release

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