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Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02570-w The world’s most popular antidepressant drugs are under fire. But are they really harder to quit than heroin?
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Intelligent people tend to perform better at school and at work, as numerous studies have shown. But what happens in domains where incentives such as good grades or financial rewards don't apply and where socioeconomic status is not a significant factor? Wine knowledge is a case in point.
Even as the scientific community has reached a broad consensus that infectious pathogens, such as viruses, can spread through virus-laden aerosols, one fundamental challenge remains: How can scientific evidence be transformed into public understanding—and ultimately into meaningful action for effective airborne disease control and…
Using lasers, computer models and AI, researchers reconstructed the calls of 165-million-year-old relatives of modern crickets and katydids from fossilized wing fragments found in China.
The project - named Starbase - will be the firm's biggest facility yet and aims to send rockets to space in 2029.
The project - named Starbase - will be the firm's biggest facility yet and aims to send rockets to space in 2029.
The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) was once widespread but has now become so scarce in the North Sea that it no longer forms ecologically functioning reefs. Along with the demise of the flat oyster, the three-dimensional structures that provide habitat for more than 100 marine species have disappeared.
