NASA is looking for the explorers who will help write the next chapter of human spaceflight. Applications are now open for the agency’s next class of astronauts, who will join NASA as America returns to the Moon, builds the Moon Base, and lays the groundwork for the first crewed missions to Mars. The next generation
Nature’s Apothecary Margaret Willes Bodleian Library Publishing (2026) According to ancient Greek medical authority Hippocrates, “Nature itself is the best physician” — hence the title of writer Margaret Willes’s appealing book. Introduced with a substantial essay on European herbalism from medieval times to the present, it discusses 100 plants with medical properties, from alecost (Tanacetum
Earlier this week, wildlife veterinarian Dr. Priya Patel and her colleagues at the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts had to deal with something they had never seen before: a raccoon with an arrow sticking out of its face. But the saga really began several days before then, when an individual in Plymouth, Massachusetts called
Whether you work from home, have to schlep into an office, or both, chances are you spend a fair bit of time on video calls. For any job where you work with colleagues, clients, or contractors, video calls are par for the course now—and that’s before you get into video meetings you might have in
Paying researchers to review papers is seen as a potential solution to clearing the peer-reviewing backlog.Credit: UpPiJ/iStock via Getty A preprint platform is paying researchers for reviewing preprints uploaded by other scientists, reigniting debates about whether peer reviewers should be paid. XSci, which launched in September, will reward a reviewer with US$200 if they send
In early October, the artificial-intelligence firm OpenAI posted more than 700 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts on an online public repository. The arguments — if found to be correct after verification — contain an extraordinary trove of new mathematical knowledge. The reaction to these developments from the maths community has ranged from exhilaration to despair. Some researchers