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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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- How NASA is Collecting Explosion Data for Next Generation Rockets
Commercial launch providers continue to advance propulsion technology with a renewed focus on liquid oxygen and methane propelled rockets and spacecraft. As systems grow in scale, carrying millions of pounds of propellant, so too does the responsibility to fully understand the safety profile. Engineers at NASA, with decades of cryogenic and test operations expertise, are
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- Apollo Samples Told a Conflicting Story About Lunar Magnetism, Until Now
Observations suggested the Moon had both a weak and strong magnetic field in the distant past. A new study presents a theory accommodating all the evidence.
- Debate explodes over age of key South American archaeological site
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- What happened when an Arab neuroscientist took the helm at an Israeli university?
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>
- Reducing PTSD symptoms through unconscious intervention
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceTraditional posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) therapies can evoke emotional distress and lead to premature dropout. This study demonstrates that subliminally presenting trauma-related images during an eye-movement exercise can effectively …
- Project Hail Mary film builds dazzling new worlds — and grounds them in science
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00870-9The space odyssey charms with its message of unity while referencing molecular biology, neutrino physics and more.
- Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00819-yMathematician Gerd Faltings showed that arithmetic equations have a finite number of solutions.