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Common medications may reshape the gut microbiome long after the last dose is taken. In a study of more than 2,500 people, researchers found lasting microbial changes linked not only to antibiotics,...
Backyard bird feeders could become unexpected hotspots for H5N1 as Australia’s bird flu outbreak spreads, bringing species together in ways that rarely occur naturally. Experts say stopping feeding...
Years ago, during the Great Recession, I attended an event sponsored by an environmental organization that had formed in protest to a planned dam construction project on the Cache La Poudre River in...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has been cleared for final launch preparations ahead of a targeted August 30 liftoff aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. The powerful new observatory will probe cosmic...
When we seek out science fiction stories, we tend to think of sensational space operas, tantalizing time travel, and amazing depictions of artificial intelligence. Often, they go beyond reality, but...
Researchers at CERN have created microscopic versions of the early Universe by colliding surprisingly small atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The collisions produced quark-gluon plasma, the...
This essay is adapted from Traversal. “In the great chain of cause and effect,” Alexander von Humboldt wrote as he was teaching science to read the poetry of nature, “no single fact can be considered...
Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with aging. Researchers found healthy eye tissue and active proteins specially adapted for...
Freezing the liquid core of an optical fiber produced an extreme environment where light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly than in ordinary fibers. Researchers used the effect to...
Pancreatic cancer patients with at least 21 natural teeth survived nearly two years longer after surgery than those with fewer teeth in a study of 339 people. Researchers suspect tooth loss may...
The video game medium has several incredible fantasy titles, from modern gems like Elden Ring and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to certified classics like Final Fantasy VII and The Elder...
Paramount Skydance representatives are expected to meet on Monday with the California Attorney General’s office to discuss a potential settlement of the states’ antitrust case, according to two...
Kevin Gordon, head of macro research & strategy at Schwab Center for Financial Research, joins Scarlet Fu and Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Money." (Source: Bloomberg)
Pretty sure David Ellison and Paramount need another legal battle right now like a perpetually sore Ethan Hunt needs to hear about what near fatal mission he should or should not accept. Yet, in what...
Patreon is developing over 30 new and updated tools, but some of them might never fully roll out to users. | Image: Patreon Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are...
Chief Justice John Roberts argued 39 Supreme Court cases as a lawyer in the solicitor general’s office and in private practice.
Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Space announced yesterday that the Link spacecraft...
The “Asian Water Tower” is losing roughly 24.2 billion tonnes of groundwater every year, with some of the worst declines hitting densely populated farming regions. Glacier melt may temporarily soften...
The Seriesly Berlin Project Pitches has selected 18 international projects from the likes of Star Trek: Discovery writer Ted Sullivan and British author Robert Wilson. Participants will take to the...
A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing bright...
“We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.” “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love,” the artist Louise Bourgeois...
Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02455-yStudying a condition after being diagnosed with it can be rewarding but also presents some ethical and psychological challenges.
Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02574-6The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
The milestone by the private company, LandSpace, could put China closer to challenging SpaceX’s rule in lower-cost spaceflight.
As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating...
A tiny machine made from just an atom and particles of light may sound impossibly simple, but it raises a surprisingly difficult question: what counts as heat, and what energy can still do useful...
Deutsche Bank Head of European Equity Research Maximilian Uleer expresses a cautiously optimistic view on the current market environment. He highlights that volatility is at a 20-year low for this...
A tomb in Egypt’s Theban Necropolis reveals a surprisingly organized story of burial, reuse, and changing beliefs spanning hundreds of years. Researchers found 16 mummified people, the remains of at...
Nature, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02037-yScientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.
Nature, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10935-4By combining a meta-analysis of CO2 enrichment experiments with three decades of southern African savanna observations, an...
Nature, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10917-6HydroGym offers over 60 standardized reinforcement-learning flow-control environments and demonstrates zero-shot transfer to a...
Nature, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10924-7Newly developed methods enable construction of Icelandic haplotypes and mapping of population-scale short reads to a pangenome...
Nature, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10894-wThe discovery of the fast-orbiting star S301 near Sagittarius A* offers a promising new probe of the central black hole spin of...
Nature, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02587-1Research on people 110 years and older reveals an immune system that continues to adapt.
Researchers have built microscopic, light-driven robots that can rapidly navigate through liquid, collect bacteria, and deposit them in chosen locations. These tiny “cleaners” could open new...
Science fiction storytelling holds an inherent ambition that few other genres can rival, a fact that's been true ever since Lucian of Samosata first conceived of dramatizing concepts of space travel...
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Abbott Elementary did the unthinkable in Season 5 when it decided to send everyone's favorite teacher couple to splitsville. In Episode 19, Janine (Quinta Brunson) and Gregory (Tyler James Williams),...
A magnetar’s colossal magnetic field may have revealed a quantum effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago, in which seemingly empty space alters the behavior of light. If confirmed,...
Nature, Published online: 18 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02584-4Proponents argue that the current system creates a false sense of precision, but critics fear that the change could increase...
Astronomers may finally have a clue to what happens to the mysterious “little red dots” that crowded the early universe. By studying a spiral galaxy nicknamed the “Saguaro,” researchers found a...
An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers...
Nature invented biodegradable plastic long before humans did—and animals may have been feeding on it for hundreds of millions of years. Researchers discovered that dozens of animal species possess...
Nature, Published online: 17 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02526-0Letting powerful academics off the hook and punishing the people they bullied sends the message that abuse is acceptable in...
Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits. Named Spea labreae, the Ice Age spadefoot toad is an exceptionally rare...
Gut microbes need something to eat, and when fiber is limited, they may begin consuming proteins from the mucus lining that protects the gut. Researchers found that fiber can suppress this process,...
In another life, Kristen Kish might have been an astronaut. As a young child, she even went to space camp for a day. “I sat in the little simulator, and I touched all the buttons,” she recalls, her...
Paramount is threatening to leave California if it cannot reach a deal with Attorney General Rob Bonta to allow it to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Puck reported the threat on Tuesday, following a...
Researchers have found strong evidence that original collagen can survive inside dinosaur fossils for tens of millions of years, overturning a long-standing assumption about fossilization. The...
Gargi Chaudhuri, chief investment and portfolio strategist, Americas at BlackRock, and Matt Wrzesniewsky, head of fixed income client portfolio management at Vanguard, join Emily Graffeo on "Real...
Unlike its work on the Spider-Man games, Insomniac won't be throwing players into an open-world environment with Marvel's Wolverine. It's an old-school single-player game that focuses on pushing the...