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
Analysis: Global — 28 October 2026 US households take $160 billion of Iran-war fuel shock, CREA says Americans account for $160 billion of an estimated $468 billion in global fuel-price inflation from the Middle East war, according to Finland’s Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, as reported on 28 October. CREA put the … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 28 October 2026 Bitcoin climbs above $81,000 ahead of Federal Reserve rate decision Bitcoin traded above $81,000 on Wednesday as major tokens rallied into the Federal Reserve’s policy announcement. CoinDesk showed BTC near $81,081, up about 1.7%, with ether, XRP and solana also higher. Cointelegraph said US spot bitcoin ETFs … Read more
Analysis: Europe — 28 October 2026 Student List wins Serbian majority as Vučić concedes Aleksandar Vučić conceded Serbia’s parliamentary election after independent pollster CRTA put the Student List (SL) on 52.45 percent and his United Serbia list on 39.2 percent. Turnout was just under 70 percent, the highest in decades. The result stands out because … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 28 October 2026 Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto Astronomers announced on 27 October 2026 that the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has produced its first dwarf-planet candidate, provisionally designated 2026 ED138. Matthew Holman of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found the trans-Neptunian object … Read more
Analysis: Global — 27 October 2026 Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials meet Iran in Tehran as US-Israel war stalls On 26 October, Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met Iranian leaders in Tehran. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei hosted the … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 27 October 2026 Bitcoin slips below $80,000 as Federal Reserve meeting begins Bitcoin fell 0.4% to about $79,700 after midnight UTC on Tuesday, slipping back under $80,000. Ether lost 0.5% and CoinDesk’s DeFi index dropped 1.8%, the steepest decline among its indexes. Crypto did not follow a 3.1% rally in … Read more
Analysis: Europe — 27 October 2026 French consumer confidence falls to 80, lowest since 2013 French household confidence fell to 80 in October, against 85 expected and a revised 85 previously, InvestingLive reported. That is the weakest reading since 2013 and well below the long-term average of 100, last seen in December 2021. Households reported … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 27 October 2026 Condorcet voting paradox mapped onto a Klein bottle Three mathematicians have shown that Condorcet’s 1785 voting cycle has a geometric form: a Klein bottle, a one-sided surface with no distinct inside or outside. Ori Livson, Mikhail Prokopenko and Siddharth Pritam start from Yuliy Baryshnikov’s 1993 triangle model … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 26 October 2026 Bitcoin holds near $80,000 as traders de-risk ahead of Fed meeting Bitcoin dipped to about $79,300 in the Asian morning on 26 October, then steadied near $80,400, little changed since midnight UTC. Ether slipped 0.2 percent; most major tokens were mixed after an earlier session in which … Read more