Congresso Latinoamericano de Satélites 2026 reúne lideranças do setor no Rio de Janeiro


Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02897-4
The trait could explain why symptoms vary in severity between people with similar brain pathology.Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02984-6
Nature staff discuss data that could point to Nefertiti’s burial place — plus, the implant that translates brain activity into speech and gestures.Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02919-1
The European Union is easing its reliance on US space infrastructure — and is seeking to grow its satellite and launch operations.Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02184-2
Landing two large grants caused Anna Sandak to take on a managerial role in her team and made her reflect on what it means to contribute to research.Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02945-z
Gene-targeting treatments could be used to treat other people with rare forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02943-1
Research also uncovers an efficient way to grow hindbrain cells from stem cells — a difficult feat.Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02922-6
Physicists and mathematicians are going beyond the classic equations of fluid dynamics to understand turbulence — often with the help of AI.Nature, Published online: 18 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02946-y
Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
Asian governments are rushing preparations for the most severe El Niño weather event on record, with hundreds of millions of people bracing for multiple crises at once as extreme heat, heavy rain and food shortages hit the region.
Fuelled by exceptionally warm ocean conditions across the tropical Pacific – and developing alongside the human-driven climate crisis – El Niño is virtually guaranteed to grow to a very strong intensity towards the end of this year and into 2027.
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Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the names of eight new members of a 16-person federal task force intended to make scientifically independent, evidence-based recommendations on an array of preventive medicine services for Americans—from depression screening to statin use, colonoscopies, and mammograms.
Recommendations from the panel—the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)—don't simply provide guidance for Americans; they also determine access. The USPSTF is supposed to use a rigorous, transparent framework for evaluating evidence and sets graded recommendations on an A to D scale. Health insurance providers are required to cover, at no cost, all preventive services that are given recommendations of an A or B grade.
Kennedy has sidelined the USPSTF for more than a year, canceling its meetings and refusing to appoint new members as terms expired and members left. In May, Kennedy also fired two leaders, sparking outcry and exacerbating fears that he would corrupt the nonpartisan independent panel by stacking it with unqualified ideological allies—which he did with an influence vaccine advisory committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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As European militaries adapt to the use of AI and drones in modern warfare, a NATO-backed startup is helping to deploy AI-driven target detection and selection that can run on small drones for surveillance and attack missions.
The company, Scaleout Systems, was originally founded by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden in 2018, and initially focused on training and deploying machine learning models directly on the hardware available in commercial trucks and other vehicles. But once Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the company pivoted toward defense applications.
“With the war in Ukraine and a shifting world, we realized that this technology can be very important to operationalize edge data and sensor data for machine learning to make sure that NATO allies have found that strategic advantage,” Andreas Hellander, cofounder and CEO of Scaleout Systems, told Ars.


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