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How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,…

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Researchers at Peking University in China test an integrated photonic quantum chip.Credit: Xinhua via AlamyAs generative artificial-intelligence models become more sophisticated and eat up more energy…

A US-led research team has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian…

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 30 January 2026 The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.

Nature, Published online: 30 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00322-4Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

Nature, Published online: 30 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00275-8Engineered Escherichia coli could open the door to more sustainable routes to new drugs and other chemicals.

January 30, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThe latest winter wallop: a bomb cyclone and Florida freezesIn the latest bout of winter weather, a…

Adam Levy 00:00 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Off Limits: Academia’s Taboos, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: religion. Research and religion…

January 30, 20261 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm3,000-light-year-long jet offers new clues to first black hole ever imagedAstronomers have traced the origin point of…