Analysis: Europe — 31 October 2026 Youth protests spread across Europe after French school riots All over Europe, young people have taken to the streets. France’s student protests drew the most attention after they descended into rioting, looting and the torching of public buildings. In recent weeks there have also been demonstrations, some violent, in … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 31 October 2026 3D map finds 41 percent of nearby interstellar gas in an unstable state A team at the Technion combined a 4,000-light-year dust-density map with unpublished ultraviolet-heating data and found that 27 percent of the local interstellar medium is cold, 32 percent is warm, and 41 percent sits … Read more
Analysis: Global — 30 October 2026 Senator Murphy calls US Iran war plan insane as Vance outreach stalls On 29–30 October, Senator Chris Murphy said he had been briefed on a U.S. war plan against Iran and called it “insane,” without releasing details. Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to Tehran seeking a framework … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 30 October 2026 Binance hack drains $6.3 billion as bitcoin falls to $76,400 Binance reported a Thursday security incident with an estimated $6.3 billion impact, the largest crypto theft on record. Bitcoin fell to an overnight low of $76,400, its weakest since Sept. 18, then traded near $77,350. Crypto futures … Read more
Analysis: Europe — 30 October 2026 Healey’s first Budget soothes gilt markets as Burnham defers fiscal rupture Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget was a holding operation, not the “circuit breaker” Prime Minister Andy Burnham had advertised. The largest household item is another energy-bill subsidy, assessed by council-tax band, plus about £100 for some 20 million … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 30 October 2026 UC Davis mathematicians find Friedmann spacetimes unstable, challenging dark energy A UC Davis team reports in Proceedings of the Royal Society A that Friedmann spacetimes, the backbone of the Lambda-CDM expansion model, are unstable to radial perturbations at both small and large scales. Blake Temple and colleagues … Read more
Analysis: Global — 29 October 2026 Americans take $160 billion of Hormuz oil shock as WTI holds above $100 WTI crude settled at $102.78 a barrel on 28 October after a $2.88 rebound, as traders priced in a possible U.S. strike on Iran after the 3 November midterms and a Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 29 October 2026 Fed holds rates at 3.75–4% in 10-2 vote as bitcoin slips to $80,000 The Federal Reserve left the federal funds target at 3.75%–4.00% on Wednesday in a 10-2 vote. Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack dissented for a 25-basis-point increase, the first time since … Read more
Analysis: Europe — 29 October 2026 Healey delivers first UK Budget with £15bn headroom as OBR cuts 2027 growth to 1% UK Chancellor John Healey delivered his first Budget on 28 October, the first of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government. The Office for Budget Responsibility cut its 2027 GDP forecast to 1.0 percent from 1.6 … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 29 October 2026 Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto Matthew Holman of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics spotted 2026 ED138 in early 2026 data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Mario Jurić of the University of … Read more