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It’s time to teach peer review as a core research skill

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03200-1Preprin...

NASA Experimental Mars Helicopter Blade Designs Target ...

NASA researchers are developing the future of flight on Mars, laying the groundw...

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big...

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03316-4An arti...

NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear P...

Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be huma...

Green stars do exist—and others shine pink or purple, too

The colors of dead stars come in a surprising rainbow of choices

Readers respond to the June 2026 issue

Letters to the editors for the June 2026 issue of Scientific American

Scientists left in the dark by National Science Foundat...

The Major Research Instrumentation program offers grants of up to $4 million to ...

1000 human mathematicians pledge to shun AI in their re...

There is a growing backlash against the way AI companies have gone about tacklin...

Parasite-infected mosquitoes released in Europe for fir...

Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to redu...

Is it ‘moon-stroke’, or a chill?

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02975-7An expl...

<i>Nature</i>’s job-satisfaction survey highlights the ...

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03327-1A highe...

NASA Welcomes Uzbekistan as Newest Artemis Accords Sign...

The Republic of Uzbekistan became the 77th signatory of the Artemis Accords duri...

NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers

As NASA works to build the Moon Base, crewed and robotic lunar rovers will play ...

Webb Captures Stellar Jets

An image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Oct. 6, 2026, reveal...

How a fusion start-up could help maintain the U.S. nucl...

The U.S. hasn’t detonated a nuclear weapon since 1992. Now a fusion start-up who...

These extreme cosmic explosions are breaking physics

Astronomers are finally figuring out what powers mysterious gamma-ray bursts

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