This is the first sugar molecule spotted in interstellar space go.nature.com/3TgNPmG

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Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new AI-assisted materials discovery institute. go.nature.com/4pf2jQ3

🔴 We have a fun thing for you today in @nature.com - a game! We took the latest research into Mars terraforming and transformed it into an interactive adventure. 🌿 How would you make the red planet green? Try your hand and see if you can win. 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Today NASA named four skilled astronauts as the #ArtemisIII crew for a test mission in low-Earth orbit, perhaps next year. All four are men, even though NASA has loads of highly qualified women astronauts. It's not a good look for the so-called Artemis generation. 🧪🔭

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: A rare meteorite recovered in 2019 from the Sahara Desert seems to be a half-kilo hunk blasted from the depths of a long-lost planet that roamed the (very) early solar system. Cool story by @jennaahart.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...

Our latest discoveries—two of the loudest gravitational-wave signals ever: #GW240925 and #GW250207 Using these signals, and our understanding of binary black holes, we can verify that our detectors are correctly calibrated ligo.org/science-summ... 🧪⚛️☄️🔭

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Astronomers are puzzling over what almost seems to be a time traveler in the early universe—a newfound “red monster” galaxy so big and dusty it shouldn’t exist at its cosmic epoch, a mere 400 million years after the Big Bang. www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...

This first woman beyond low Earth orbit is a Phillies fan—how beautiful

I wonder if it’s also a pink moon tn for the Artemis crew

Also in @nature.com's #ArtemisII coverage: "It is not sufficient to justify human space exploration by aiming to be the first or by claiming that it will support industry. How it is done, and by whom, needs to change to win the public over." - Bethany Ehlmann 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So this is where all the missing antimatter has been hiding

These medical X-rays are all deepfakes — and they fool even radiologists Radiologists and large language models alike have a hard time picking out real medical images from fake ones. @jennaahart.bsky.social writes for @nature.com News. With a quote by me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Most radiologists struggle to identify X‑ray scans that are generated by artificial intelligence, with fewer than half spotting synthetic images hidden in real medical data go.nature.com/4sty6NM

Contrary to what a grade-school science experiment might have you believe, static electricity is an utter mystery to scientists. In my new feature for @nature.com: why is static electricity so shockingly complex, and how are we finally getting consistent results in this field?

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI): Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

A new particle, woohoo! 🧪

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

Why do curling stones slide across ice the way they do? After a century of study, physicists have theories — but they’re still not 100% sure. Stellar lede from @jennaahart.bsky.social Read the full story in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Watching the Olympic curling finals this weekend? Physicists still aren't 100% sure why the big granite stones 'curl' the way they do. go.nature.com/4rTOAOw

New for @nature.com: Some light reading ahead of this weekend's curling finals. (Fact checked by spinning a candle on the floor of my living room) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is dehumanizing and normalizes a future when AI agents can literally boss humans around; with or without our awareness. Its the latter I'm more scared of! @jennaahart.bsky.social has a good piece on it: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Many different bird species have been affiliated with the Seattle Seahawks’ mascot, but none is technically a “seahawk”

The Pandora satellite provides career training grounds while observing exoplanets go.nature.com/4tfz7dr

More than half of the Pandora mission’s leading scientists and engineers are early-career researchers This is “really unheard of elsewhere in the NASA mission space”, says one. By @jennaahart.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 🪐 🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New for @nature.com: the early-career researchers behind NASA's newest telescope, Pandora. “People talk about having a seat at the table. I think that Pandora has taken a step further and helped early-career people be involved in choosing the menu of what we’re eating at the table.”

New for @sciam.bsky.social: Behind astronomers' recent victory protecting Chile's skies, and why other battles—including those against satellite megaconstellations—may not be so easily won www.scientificamerican.com/article/astr...

Still reeling from the finale of #StrangerThings? Dive back into the physics of parallel universes with @jennaahart.bsky.social over at @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes go.nature.com/3XxRL1u

In the latest from Nature: with half a million satellites set to launch in the next decade, more than 96% of images from some space telescopes could be obscured. “We will have fewer discoveries, less interesting images, and in general, less knowledge.” 🔭🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system... This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️

New: Researchers are broadly rejecting the Trump administration's compact. In faculty votes and student protests, they have mobilized to pressure their universities—to some effect: 6 of the original 9 universities have rejected the compact With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:

Is this the elusive ultra-long GRB ???

babe wake up, an entirely new type of object just dropped

ICYMI: Astronomers are finally solving the mystery of JWST’s little red dots, and they seem to be a hybrid sort of black hole star!! 🔭🧪 “It’s almost a shame that we’re starting to figure them out,” Anna de Graaff told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A consensus is emerging that these mysterious little red dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe. go.nature.com/4hjIGm4

First exoplanet story since August—reclaiming my brand

Not common to see a 7-byline story in the wild, but that's what the situation calls for when the government shuts down and every science agency needs to be checked in on for RIFs, grant terminations, and general dysfunction. Our update on what the chaos means for science here:

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development. go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. “Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems” 🧪 #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who said the science part of Nobel week is over!? In my new analysis for Nature, over 30% of science laureates from this century have immigrated, and two thirds came to the US. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Of the 202 Nobelists who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize, a Nature analysis shows. go.nature.com/48UbZJp

You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds. @jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Big day for physics teachers who tell their students “If you slap the desk, there’s a 1 in 5.2^61 chance that your hand will pass right through”

Researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable. Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy Nobel week to you and yours!🏅 In the latest from @nature.com: Could AI take home a science Nobel—no human needed? Some say yes, and soon. 🧪 For more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.