At 6:42 p.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 17, NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft completed their move to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) took…
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Cutting Gluten Can Lead to Weight Loss, But Not For The Reason You’d Think : ScienceAlert
When Matt Damon recently credited his weight loss to going gluten-free, it reignited a familiar debate about this divisive dietary approach. But while The Odyssey star’s claims have sparked discussion, the science behind weight loss tells a…
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Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla received astronauts after splashdown – San Diego Union-Tribune
Scripps Health disclosed Monday that its hospital in La Jolla received two helicopters, each carrying two astronauts, early Thursday shortly after the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour craft returned to Earth about one month earlier than scheduled due to…
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A Single Molecule May Explain How Blood Flow in The Brain Triggers Dementia : ScienceAlert
Reduced blood flow to the brain is thought to be a key factor in many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s, and scientists have just identified a new mechanism regulating this flow, which may also help explain how it goes wrong.
A fat…
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US Congress set to reject Trump’s sweeping science budget cuts
The US Congress has agreed on much larger budgets for science agencies than those proposed by US President Donald Trump. Credit: Douglas Rissing/Getty
The US Congress is poised to approve legislation rejecting the huge and unprecedented cuts to…
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To gain public trust, make art central to science communication
As your News Feature notes, effective science communication is needed in the face of funding cuts (see Nature 645, 298–300; 2025). Yet art–science collaborations — a great way to communicate the value of science — remain too rare.
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what has been lost and what remains
20 January 2026
By Max Kozlov, Jeff Tollefson and Dan Garisto
Grant termination data analysis and visualization by Kim Albrecht
MMore than 7,800…
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US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
The first year of US President Donald Trump’s second administration delivered a steady pulse of federal-agency lay-offs, grant terminations and funding cuts to universities. “The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science…
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Mistaken identity and the psychology of human recognition
Nature, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00190-y
The accuracy of eyewitness evidence is questioned, and a fossil collection examined when a geological society moves its London home in this week’s pick from the Nature…
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Author Correction: Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events
Nature, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10109-2
Author Correction: Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events
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