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This week’s new questions

Why do carnivorous quadrupeds sit on their haunches, but herbivorous ones don’t? Is the order of mathematical operations, given the acronym BODMAS, universal o…

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Hubble Reveals Cosmic Mystery

This photo released on Nov. 2, 2026, showcases NGC 4449, a dwarf irregular. Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies —…

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Time to wake up MetOp-SG-B1 weather satellite

Following a short period in storage after arriving at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the MetOp Second Generation-B1 satellite has been transferred to a c…

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Spider snooze stages

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03487-0

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Astronaut and Earth

CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk is pictured during the Oct. 29, 2026, spacewalk. The International Space Station was soaring 267 miles abov…

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10 asteroid mysteries that Hera will explore

Video: 00:07:25 Hera, the European Space Agency’s first mission for planetary defence, arrives at its target body during November, with the goal of gathering p…

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In This Issue

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 43, October 2026.

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In This Issue

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 42, October 2026.

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What is biology research for?

by Ran Blekhman In the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the assumption that writing a paper requires doing science no longer holds true. Before…

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In This Issue

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026.

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Better antibodies, better science

by Johan Duchêne Poorly validated antibodies generate misleading results and waste research resources. Two new studies in PLOS Biology quantify the ethical cos…

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Profile of Michael N. Shadlen

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. Neuroscientist and neurologist Michael N. Shadlen is a world leader i…