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How can we look at fossils and understand what creatures roamed the Earth millions of years ago?
How can we predict the behavior of materials deep within planetary interiors?
How can we reverse humanity’s impact on the global climate?
How can we predict habitats for life on other planets?
Doing impactful, innovative research requires training our brain to imagine the elusive unknown, even when bounded by scientific evidence. Now, more than ever in the history of human civilization, there is a pressing need to exercise our imagination muscles. Writing scientific fiction while accounting for the real science is a powerful way to do just that—to learn what is possible, what is probable, how we can change the future, and what our responsibility is to the future generation of our species.
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is ending, with the crew scheduled to return in early October. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will head home from the International Space Station after supporting research that benefits life on Earth and prepares humans for missions
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Simon Gascoin has posted some high resolution satellite imagery of the source of the dreadful landslide disaster in Nepal. On the CESBIO Multitemp blog, Simon Gascoin has posted high resolution CNES Pléiades satellite imagery of the source area of the 26 August 2026 Langtang Lirung landslide in Nepal. This is the first high resolution imagery
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 39, September 2026. <br/>
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 39, September 2026. <br/>SignificanceEveryday decisions are shaped by where we direct our attention. Although a large body of research has documented robust links between attention and choice, we still lack a systematic understanding of why attention influences choice and when …
- Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial
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- Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03133-9Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine.