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Some books feel like they were written after the author got tired of hearing what a genre is supposed to contain. Good. That impatience has produced some of the most exciting speculative fiction of...
My ideal type of novel leaves behind a new vocabulary for experiences I’d already had. It puts me in actual scenarios, and allows me to look at them while I can imagine completely new visuals for...
The following article discusses spoilers for Episode 8 of Carrie, "AP Physics"
Chevrons are locked! Amazon is reviving its long-dormant Stargatefranchise once more, after a cancelled attempt earlier this year. This time, they're bringing in a big-name creator who's had big...
Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain...
A strange chemical signature in old Hubble observations may point to a planet that formed after its star had already died. Astronomers found unusually high levels of niobium around the white dwarf HS...
Bonds issued by Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. weakened on Friday, following SpaceX’s announcement that it will buy US spectrum that will help the company become a “major mobile carrier”...
Researchers have uncovered a new way bacteria detect viral attacks: a virus-produced enzyme cuts a bacterial sensor protein, triggering a self-destructing immune response. The discovery could lead to...
Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of syllables. Margaret told researchers in Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith’s...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts have returned to Earth after 237 days in space, traveling more than 100 million miles and completing over 3,792 orbits while conducting research to prepare for future...
Each time you look up at the night sky, you see only ancient signals — by the time a photon has reached your pupil, the star that emitted it may be long dead. The great wonder is that its light can...
Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03217-6Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03216-7Nature staff discuss a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02909-3David Lapola is testing a big climate-science unknown: how will the forest cope as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to...
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is starting an environmental review of a proposed crosstown subway line along Harlem’s 125th Street that could serve an estimated 164,000 weekday...
The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. The researcher who died worked in the lab.
New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of early human evolution. Researchers have described 18 hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including an adult Homo erectus skull fragment dated...
Some European countries work fewer hours but does that mean they're less productive? Economist Dominik Leusder joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on the Odd Lots podcast to talk about how...
NASA is preparing for humanity’s first Moon base with three investigations that will hunt for underground shelters, uncover hidden ice, and track dangerous conditions on the lunar surface. The...
The administration wants to shift science money from universities to private firms. Lawmakers and others have pushed back.
Award-winning fiction writer T. Geronimo Johnson joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new novel, The Occidental Book of the Dead. He discusses how the book...
BofA Global Research Chief Greater China Economist Helen Qiao estimates China's 25 trillion-yuan infrastructure investment plan could generate 5 trillion yuan of economic activity annually, helping...
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03154-4The device will be launched on a joint UAE-US-built craft. Some researchers say it could be the last mission constructed with...
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03199-5Study of almost 900 dogs from roughly 120 breeds finds that rapid ageing of large canines is linked to changes in the...
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03128-6Scientists worry that increasingly capable large language models will beat them to discoveries.
IDW Comics is rolling out an impressive lineup of Star Trek comics from a wide variety of creators. Yesterday, they announced that The Next Generation star Gates McFadden will pen a new miniseries...
Bond investors backing David Ellison’s audacious $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. are making a bold bet of their own — lending tens of billions of dollars while forgoing many of...
Drawing blood at an H.I.V. clinic in South Africa last year. The research networks’ large footprint has enabled them to develop tools to prevent and treat H.I.V., including in marginalized or rare...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving astronomers a glimpse of the kinds of violent collisions that may have shaped our own solar system, including the giant impact thought to have created the...
Which African industries are poised to benefit from today’s geopolitical climate? Jennifer Zabasajja has the 2026 Investor’s Guide to Africa. (Source: Bloomberg)
The James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that the rocky lava world HD 3167 b has an atmosphere, despite circling its star every 24 hours under extreme heat. The surprising discovery...
Scientists at UC San Francisco have developed a way to create cancer-fighting CAR-T cells directly inside the body, potentially avoiding the slow and extremely expensive process of removing,...
A study comparing 100 primate species, including humans, suggests that everyday aggression and lethal violence did not evolve as part of the same simple behavioral spectrum. Species that frequently...
New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived...
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02985-5Comparable data are key to protecting the world from the next epidemic, says bioengineer Polina Brangel.
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11153-8A tRNA-specific regulatory pathway is associated with codon biology, lineage transitions and therapy resistance in prostate...
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03197-7Annotated images and more collected by the four astronauts could inform missions to the lunar surface.
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03212-xHenri Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Plus, the biggest success stories in cancer survival and one...
Soon after Warner Bros. Discovery accepted Paramount’s acquisition proposal in February, then-Paramount CEO David Ellison pitched senior Warner executives on his $110 billion takeover of their...
The NFN Productions docuseries “The Watch: America’s Nuclear Mission,” which follows the men and women carrying out America’s nuclear deterrence mission, is set for a limited Imax engagement starting...
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have captured the clearest evidence yet that quark-gluon plasma, the scorching-hot matter that filled the newborn universe, behaves like a true liquid. By...
US funding cuts caused sharp and lasting declines in HIV prevention, testing and treatment services at organizations serving some of the people most vulnerable to the virus in Uganda and Zimbabwe,...
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03177-xPreprints must not leak sensitive research information
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03136-6Scientists are using cell-free transcription and translation systems to synthesize proteins, design biology-based sensors and...
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03092-1Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on a pioneering high-energy neutrino observatory at the South...
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03130-yTwo reports highlight the changes needed in academia to facilitate the fast, collaborative, responsive and inclusive research...
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03095-yNature reporter Davide Castelvecchi reflects on covering the fast-moving field of astronomy honoured by the Nobel physics...
Babylist CEO Jennifer Hyman discusses the company’s new 20,000-square-foot showroom in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, which opened at the end of September and is its largest retail location yet....
After a year of negotiations, false starts, and internal and external politicking, the question of who will run the combined mega-studio created by Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery has been...
Cancer immunotherapy can lose its punch when tumor-fighting T cells become exhausted, but researchers may have found a way to keep them going longer. Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer...