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Sustainability or dystopia? What past patterns tell us about where society is heading
Tipping Out of Trouble: How Societies Transformed and How We Can Do So Again Marten Scheffer Cambridge Univ. Press (2026)…
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why the ‘disease’ label doesn’t always fit
People with the same body mass index can have radically different health statuses. Credit: Hiraman/Getty Nearly one billion people worldwide…
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How to breathe life back into brain theory
The Brain, In Theory Romain Brette Princeton Univ. Press (2026) What is a brain? The question might seem obvious, but…
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China moves AI brain implants from trials towards real-world use
A brain-computer interface developed by Chinese company NeuroXess.Credit: Chengdu Economic Daily/VCG via Getty Chinese companies are racing to develop and…
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Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads
Passengers disembarked from the MV Hondius at the Canary Islands wearing personal protective equipment.Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Close to 150 passengers…
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Iranian scientists on losing labs, libraries and liberty
Sharif University of Technology after it was bombed on 7 April 2026.Credit: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Bombs dropped by the…
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match 680,000 innovators with companies
Only a small portion of patents owned by universities in China become commercial products.Credit: Xu Changliang/VCG via Getty China’s intellectual-property…
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What does the future hold for the thawing Arctic?
Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic Mia Bennett & Klaus Dodds Yale Univ. Press (2025) From the…
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Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way
Credit: demaerre/iStock via Getty Researchers hoping to find late-career success are in for bad news. A study that tracked the…
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Trump congratulates Artemis crew on successful mission so far
The four Artemis II astronauts inside of the Orion capsule before they spoke to US President Donald Trump, after the…
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