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‘You Don’t Put Your Head in the Sand for 4 Years’: Colossal CEO Ben Lamm on Working With Trump

The company’s cofounder recently convinced the Trump administration to support an initiative to gather DNA samples from endangered species.

Wired Science · EN

The more you know, the harder it is to change someone’s mind

Here’s the bad news: The deeper your understanding of an issue and the stronger your conviction about the solution, the worse you often become at persuasion. This isn’t a character flaw; it’s a law of neuroscience. Once you understand it, you’ll stop wondering why your brilliant ideas and proposals keep floundering in meeting rooms. It’s due to a cognitive trap that the fields of behavioral economics and neuroscience have spent decades documenting: the curse of knowledge . Once I explain how it works, you’ll start to recognize why it’s working against your persuasion. In the early 1990s, Stanf

Big Think · EN

Giant Impacts Help Rocky Planets Retain Their Atmospheres

For a long time, planetary scientists thought that giant impacts drove a young planet's atmosphere away into space with all the heat they generated. But it turns out the opposite could be true. The mass a young planet gains through a giant impact increases its gravitational hold on its atmosphere.

Universe Today · EN

Hubble Reveals Cosmic Mystery

This is an image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 4449, one of the dwarf galaxies in the Galaxies Losing Oxygen via Winds (GLOW) study. Researchers found that dwarf galaxies can hold onto only a small fraction of the oxygen made by their stars.

NASA Image of the Day · EN

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 — small galaxies containing a few thousand to hundreds of millions of stars — including NGC 4449 and found that much of the oxygen they expected to see is missing. Read […]

NASA Breaking News · EN

NASA Space Grant Students Fuel Agency’s Inspiration Tour

NASA’s Inspiration Tour spread the excitement of space exploration and aeronautical innovation by connecting the public, industry, and academia with the people, technologies, and organizations that drive American leadership in space. At nearly every stop across the country, NASA Space Grant has brought students into the heart of the action. In Iowa, NASA Administrator Jared […]

NASA Breaking News · EN

NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) guidance, navigation, and control payload completed simulated lunar descent and landing maneuvers Aug. 27. The flight took place […]

NASA Breaking News · EN

NASA Announces Ka-Band Satellite Relay Awards for Space Communications

NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without requiring modifications to their onboard systems. Through this work, NASA will aim to acquire end-to-end solutions that include space, ground, launch, operations, and integration […]

NASA Breaking News · EN

Students gather to explore Hawaii's glorious night sky | Space photo of the day for Nov. 4, 2026

Over 1,400 students gathered in Hawaii recently to learn about astronomy as part of the annual Journey Through the Universe program.

Space.com · EN

NASA's Artemis II moon launch tore a hole in Earth's upper atmosphere so huge it disrupted GPS signals

"It could have a strong impact not only on self-driving cars but also on drone positioning."

Space.com · EN

Mars isn't dead — recent volcanic activity reveals it's just sleeping

Scientists have long suspected that Mars is geologically "dead" but new spacecraft observations suggests the Red Planet's volcanoes are merely sleeping.

Space.com · EN

NASA's Swift space telescope crashes back to Earth after failed rescue attempt

NASA's Swift space telescope crashed back to Earth today (Nov. 4), three months after a private spacecraft was supposed to boost the observatory to a higher orbit.

Space.com · EN

'Trials and Tribble-ations' at 30: The classic 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' episode that brought Captains Kirk and Sisko face-to-face

How "Forrest Gump", pizza, and a massive supporting cast of furballs came together to make one of "Star Trek"'s finest hours.

Space.com · EN

This self-powered toothbrush makes electricity to kill cavity-causing bacteria

Researchers have created a self-charging toothbrush that helps fight the bacteria linked to cavities and gum disease while preventing plaque buildup.

Live Science · EN

AI agents run this automated biology lab that sequences DNA and more

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03552-8 Self-driving lab in China requires only a simple prompt to encode messages in DNA and read them out.

Nature News · EN

Carbon radical generation by irreversible metal-to-ligand charge transfer

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11368-9 Carbon radical generation by irreversible metal-to-ligand charge transfer

Nature News · EN

Ancient DNA charts spread of Celtic and Germanic languages

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03582-2 Genomes from thousands of ancient individuals show how migrations helped shape Celtic and Germanic languages — plus, how the brain may regulate emotions differently than we thought.

Nature News · EN

A guide to Nature Index tables

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03344-0 Information on the methodology used in the ranking for the 2026 Nature Spotlight: Neuroscience.

Nature News · EN

Toothbrush zaps bacteria with electricity made when bristles move

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03586-y Innovative polymer could give the manual toothbrush its first radical redesign in more than 1,000 years.

Nature News · EN

Why not to wait even a few minutes before fleeing a tsunami

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03539-5 Simulation shows that hesitating can be the difference between making it to safety and not.

Nature News · EN

Spider snooze stages

Nature, Published online: 04 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03487-0 How similar are vertebrate and invertebrate sleeping behaviours? An analysis of spiders offers insights about how sleep evolved.

Nature News · EN

Why do people look better in a mirror than in a photograph? Part 3

This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our readers had to say

New Scientist · EN

Why don’t dogs look up when a low-flying plane passes overhead? Part 6

This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our readers had to say

New Scientist · EN

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 or does it break down in the quantum world?

New Scientist · EN