Gold and silver are trading at record levels in October following a series of documented geopolitical and macroeconomic developments.

A new international health report released in mid October 2025 has renewed concern about antibiotic resistance, warning that one in six common bacterial infections is now difficult to treat with standard medicines.

For more than six decades, astrophysicists have puzzled over the origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays. These particles, which travel through space at nearly the speed of light, strike Earth with energies far greater than those produced in human made particle accelerators. Yet their exact source has remained uncertain.

Bitcoin climbed to a record $126,080 on October 6, marking a major milestone for the digital asset market.

On 29 September 2025, health organisations across the world marked World Heart Day with a simple message: cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death globally, yet many cases are preventable.

After nearly 20 years of negotiations, the world finally has a legal framework to protect the two-thirds of ocean that belongs to no one — and to regulate what happens there.

As Climate Week NYC unfolded from 21 to 28 September 2025, one theme dominated discussions across conference halls and corporate forums: energy resilience. Against a backdrop of rising global temperatures and growing demand for electricity, leaders from business, government and civil society gathered to ask how power systems can remain stable under pressure.

The framework deal hands majority ownership of TikTok's U.S. operations to Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX — ending five years of legal and political uncertainty over the app's future in America.

Nvidia has announced plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, marking what both companies describe as the largest AI infrastructure partnership in history.

From 3 to 7 September 2025, the city of Linz in Austria once again became a meeting point for artists, technologists and researchers at the annual Ars Electronica Festival. Now in its fourth decade, the event has built a reputation as one of Europe’s leading platforms for exploring the relationship between art, society and emerging technology.