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If you’ve been pregnant in the past few months, you may have faced a dilemma. You wake up with a fever, a pounding headache, or back pain – and then pause. Is it safe to take paracetamol?
That hesitation isn’t surprising. In September last…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA’s giant new Moon rocket moved to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.
The out-and-back trip could blast off as early as February.
The…

Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous.
The world’s longest-running lab experiment is an ongoing work in sheer scientific patience. It has been running continuously for…

“In this photo, I’m preparing drifting buoys for deployment. This was my main responsibility aboard the RV Falkor (too), during a 27-day research expedition in October 2025 exploring the Malvinas Current, an ocean current that runs alongside…

The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics Jason Socrates Bardi Basic (2025)
In the weeks leading up to September 1891, mathematician Georg Cantor prepared an ambush. For years he had sparred —…

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate…

Nature, Published online: 19 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10080-4
Editorial Expression of Concern: En passant neurotrophic action of an intermediate axonal target in the developing mammalian CNS

Nature, Published online: 19 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00186-8
A generation that missed out on economic growth is driving the trends overtaking politics today.

The exponential growth of scientific literature presents an increasingly acute challenge across disciplines. Hundreds of thousands of new chemical reactions are reported annually, yet translating them into actionable experiments becomes an…