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Where Science Meets Creative Writing
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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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Spectrum of Home
A family is facing bureaucratic border control while hoping to arrive at their new home planet.
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Catch and Release
Inspired by the halocline found in underwater caves in the Yucatán peninsula, an alien fish finds a creature from across the underwater veil.
For Today’s Inspiration
- Studying Physics in Microgravity
In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. A bulk container installed in the MSG, filled with viscous fluid and embedded particles, is subjected to oscillating frequencies to observe
- Santa Visits Artemis II Rocket
Santa Claus (NASA engineer Guy Naylor) poses with NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft and SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 11, 2025. The Orion spacecraft was stacked atop the SLS in October 2025. Set to launch in early 2026, the Artemis II
- Satellite Radar Advances Could Transform Global Snow Monitoring
The recent SnowEx campaign and the new NISAR satellite mission are lighting the way to high-resolution snowpack monitoring and improved decisionmaking in critical river basins around the world.
- Democracy and Education Increase Women’s Belief in Climate Change
The finding, which focuses on lower-income countries, could help inform plans to shrink the global climate knowledge gender gap.
- Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
- Optimal perovskite vapor partitioning on textured silicon for high-stability tandem solar cells | Science
Achieving conformal, vapor-deposited perovskite films on industry-standard textured silicon substrates with micrometer-scale pyramids remains challenging because of the complex surface partitioning of perovskite vapors and the effects of nonequilibrium …
- In This Issue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 51, December 2025. <br/>
- Band pattern formation of erythrocytes in density gradients is due to competing aggregation and net buoyancy
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 51, December 2025. <br/>SignificanceDensity-based centrifugation is widely used to separate biological components, including red blood cells (RBCs) of different ages. However, puzzling banding patterns often appear in continuous gradients, and their origin has remained unclear. …
- The Nature Podcast highlights of 2025
Nature, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03756-4The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.
- Seeding opportunities for Black atmospheric scientists
Nature, Published online: 23 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04068-3Vernon Morris inspires change in the geoscience community by calling on colleagues to commit to anti-racism in their scientific endeavours.