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Why human language may be intertwined with fire

Understanding how human language evolved is one of the hardest problems in scien...

APOD: 2026 September 20 – Analemma over the Callanish S...

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 20 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions In...

Could brain-inspired computers run on the same amount o...

The human brain uses about the same amount of wattage as a lightbulb

Surviving the summer

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses existential threats to humankind: extreme ...

APOD: 2026 September 19 – A Zodiacal Night

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 19 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions In...

What does OpenAI’s blockbuster mathematics proof mean f...

OpenAI’s claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de fo...

Why AI is speeding up scientific research but not lab e...

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are ...

AI cracked the Navier–Stokes challenge. What does that ...

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02922-6Physi...

NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion...

Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) obs...

How to make a brain: new experiments challenge existing...

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02943-1Resea...

NASA Invites Media to Albania Artemis Accords Signing C...

The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p....

What changing ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ means fo...

The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Gre...

This dolphin terrifies fish until they puke—and then ea...

Don’t have the energy to catch your own meal? This dolphin has a gross solution

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope glimpses its first c...

The space telescope is set to reveal thousands of new exoplanets and scour the u...

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists t...

Briefing Chat: Evidence mounts for hidden chambers beyo...

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02984-6Natur...

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