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SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 17, 2026

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘SILENT RISK’ – Genetics reveal predisposition for lung cancer in Southern Appalachia…

OpenAI leap triggers ‘existential crisis’ in math

Solution to Navier-Stokes problem has mathematicians at odds over AI’s implications for field

Alarming report on AI and bioweapons divides scientists

Anthropic says researchers may have used Claude for nefarious work on viruses and toxins

New platform could broaden conference poster audience

The staple format also warrants a deeper rethink, some researchers say

In water fight, California to spend billions on ‘visionary’ plan to boost fish habitat

Skeptics of strategy for the beleaguered San Francisco Bay delta region question whether it will work without allocating more water for nature

Magazines, Research, Science, Technology

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: The latest issue features ‘Impossible Questions’ – What came before the big bang?

The questions science may never answer

Will some of the biggest mysteries in science remain forever unsolved? by Sarah Scoles

Will we ever know how life began?

Scientists disagree on how biology got started and on whether we can ever know for sure

Will we ever achieve immortality?

Scientists are pursuing the limits of longevity

What if we never find dark matter?

Could the hunt for the universe’s missing matter be the biggest wild goose chase in scientific history?

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NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 12, 2026

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New Scientist Magazine: This issue features ‘What Is Nothing’ – We’re about to see inside empty space – and reveal the quantum foundations of the universe.

New Scientist recommends a fascinating deep dive into the real Vikings

We’re on the verge of seeing the quantum foundations of the universe

Are mushroom-growing kits seeding a biodiversity crisis across Europe?

Fermat’s last theorem formalised by AI agents in just 11 days

Pygmy raccoons teach each other to make toys out of paper and sand

Saturn has a big, weird decagon around its south pole

The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted

Should we all be taking low doses of lithium to prevent Alzheimer’s?

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 10, 2026

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Rotavirus Entry’ – Visualizing how nonenveloped viruses cross cell membranes…

China maps the deep scars of its geological past

Early results from the $1 billion SinoProbe II project hint at how continental fragments assemble and evolve

Scientists question U.S. Forest Service’s rationale for rescinding ‘roadless rule’

Trump administration officials argue the change is necessary to reduce wildfire risk in national forests

Clues to immune havoc in the brain

Study in mice strengthens T cells’ ties to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s

Platinum chemotherapy ages the liver

Platinum-based drugs cause mutations and liver aging in children treated for cancer

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 3, 2026

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘OFF THE TOP’ – Climate-driven local extinctions of high-elevation plants….

How scientists unraveled the causes of the devastating flood in Tibet and Nepal

Global cooperation revealed a huge landslide likely initiated the cascade of events

Supermale fish become new tactic for vanquishing invaders

Hatchery-raised trout with double Y chromosomes can eradicate invasive populations

Fearing seal die-off from bird flu, Australia moves to evacuate sub-Antarctic research station

Watching pups’ deaths could affect the mental health of staff, officials say

Brain stimulation takes aim at improving women’s health

Trials of noninvasive technologies enroll pregnant and postpartum women

Artificial Intelligence, Magazines, Research, Reviews, Technology

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026

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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Kids issue features… What does growing up in an age of chatbots and agents mean for kids’ future? From the role AI plays in their day-to-day lives to how they cope with the existential dread that comes with climate change, young people are asserting their smarts to define their relationship with technology and the world around them. Plus!…

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.

Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 20, 2026

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Sulfur On Mars’ – The Curiosity rover finds unexpected deposits….

Powers of persuasion

AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people’s minds. What gives them an edge?

Touch and pain shape what brain imaging sees

Sensory inputs influence different blood vessel networks, affecting the precision of brain scans

China mission aims to probe the Moon’s hidden water

Chang’e-7 will send a hopping craft into a polar crater to directly sample lunar ice

Arson attack jolts Italy’s bid to host the Einstein Telescope

Two scientists’ cars burned at proposed Sardinian site for the next-generation gravitational-wave observatory

Magazines, Research, Science, Technology

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026

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Scientific American Volume 335, Issue 2 | Scientific American

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: The latest issue features ‘Collision Course’ – Companies want to put millions of satellites into space. Are we headed for an orbital catastrophe?

The battle for the night sky

SpaceX and other companies want to put millions of satellites into space. Could orbit run out of room?

What really happened on Easter Island?

For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale

How NASA turned a spy satellite into its new dark energy telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter

Why your brain turns life into stories

Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 13, 2026

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Windows Into The Past’ – Fossilized shark denticles provide a view of preexploitation abundance.

Planned satellite constellations risk runaway debris

Modeling suggests infamous “Kessler syndrome” would make the swarms unsustainable

Researchers struggle to improve nonopioid pain drugs

Studies probe the limits of new sodium channel blockers

Physicists find strong evidence for elusive ‘glueball’

Long-sought particle, made of force-carrying gluons, represents a new type of matter

Fight over Colorado River water threatens ecosystems

After a record-low snowpack, federal authorities canceled dam releases for managing fish and sandbars

Tau can wreak havoc in brain cells’ energy factories

Study of mitochondria suggests new treatment strategy for Alzheimer’s and other diseases

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 6, 2026

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Let Them Roam’ – Understanding Bison population structure can aid restoration.

Genes of an icon

In the DNA of bison, scientists find clues to the animals’ past—and keys to safeguarding their future

Listening to storms as they shake Earth

A network of seismometers measured atmospheric turbulence during Hurricane Isaac’s landfall

What triggered the atmosphere’s great oxygen surge?

Global ice or ocean changes may explain a mysterious lag in the gas’ rise

NASA’s PUNCH punches up space weather forecasts

Satellite quartet demonstrates record-breaking ability to predict solar explosions’ arrivals at Earth