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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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Progress Without Morals
A scientist is trying to harness microbial properties to develop a fantastic tool. He believes he can; but should he?
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Saturn’s icy rings glow in this infrared view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on March 25, 2026. Combining this image with another that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured – also released on the same day – provides scientists with a richer, more layered understanding of the gas giant’s atmosphere. In Webb’s infrared image,
- NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two space observatories provide scientists with a richer, more layered understanding of the gas giant’s atmosphere. Both sense sunlight reflected from Saturn’s banded
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Measuring plastic particles carried on Cozumel’s sea breezes and ocean currents reveals how simple physics shapes the particles’ pathways and the impacts they may have on coastal regions.
- The Future of Earth’s Future
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- In This Issue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. <br/>
- Synthetic lethality between RB-loss and E2F3 inhibition in small cell cancers targeted by pyrimidine synthesis blockade
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceThe synthetic lethality of E2F3 inactivation in RB-deficient small cell cancer cells is established. E2F3 dependency is shared across RB-deficient cells originating from multiple tissues. The requirement for E2F3 in RB-deficient small cell …
- Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers
Nature, Published online: 24 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00945-7Repeated cloning from a single mouse failed after 58 generations. Researchers say harmful DNA changes are to blame.
- Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN’s truck
Nature, Published online: 24 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00950-wPhysicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.