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AMSTERDAM — A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during a May 28 hotfire test, destroying the rocket and causing extensive pad…

As more than 50,000 residents of Garden Grove, Calif., returned home on Tuesday and Wednesday after a narrowly averted chemical crisis at an aerospace plant, a rupture at a separate…

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created tiny lab-grown brain and spinal cord systems that mimic how movement signals travel through the human nervous system. Using this model, the…

An ancient killer has plagued humans for millennia. Although it’s rarely considered a threat in developed countries today, it seems this long-term villain is still very much a danger in…

JANESVILLE, Wis., May 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SHINE Technologies has been competitively selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for advanced negotiations to convert surplus plutonium — material originally produced…

May 28, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants These proposed Office of Management and…

Doctor Who has been so popular for more than 60 years now because of how versatile it is. Episodes can be musical adventures about the Beatles, space hijinks with weird…

Immunotherapy may offer a completely new way to treat people with difficult-to-treat depression, according to a University of Bristol-led clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry on May 20. In the…

Bird navigation has puzzled animal scientists for a long time, despite decades of research, not least because each species seems to have its own flight manual and designing experiments to…

For generations, pianists and music teachers have insisted that a performer’s touch can change the character of a piano’s sound. Skeptics argued that once a piano hammer strikes a string,…

A new theory claims to have solved the long-standing conundrum of how homing pigeons use Earth’s magnetic field to find their way. The hypothesis: pigeon livers act like compasses. Biologists…

New Jersey-based Thea Energy, one of several U.S. companies working to commercialize fusion energy, said the company has raised $100 million in Series B funding. Thea is advancing stellarator technology…

In the world of horror movies, Backrooms is something brand new. But on the internet, the Backrooms are well established, with 24 official chapters and thousands of hours of fan-made…

May 28, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The ‘age of gravitational astronomy’ is here A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about…

A new brain imaging study is raising questions about one of the most widely discussed explanations for long COVID. Researchers found no evidence of widespread brain inflammation in people experiencing…

A mysterious new kind of celestial object discovered by the James Webb telescope just inched closer to reality, a new study reports. Looking within a large stellar nursery in the…

On the 27th, Yoon Si-woo, Vice President of the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE), gives a presentation at a joint press study session held at the Korea Science and…

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a brain immune protein that may play a major role in the progression of Parkinson’s disease…

May 27, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Amputated sea cucumber tissue keeps living for years—possibly forever The discarded fragments of this creature apparently refuse to die,…

AMSTERDAM — The Federal Aviation Administration will require SpaceX to complete an investigation into its latest Starship test flight before allowing the vehicle to fly again. In a May 27…

Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology/ The Conversation On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained…

Thea Energy has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series B led by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, the fusion startup told TechCrunch. The sum places the company among the better-funded fusion…

There’s no telling how long The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will take to tell its story, though showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have insisted that…

Every morning on the giant exoplanet WASP-94A b, clouds made from rocky minerals gather across the sky. By evening, those clouds are gone. Using observations from the James Webb Space…

“Universal” biological signatures of aging shared across different mammalian species—including humans—could offer new clues to identifying longevity and antiaging treatments or interventions, a new study finds. Age isn’t just the…

Astronomers have found the most extreme example yet of a black hole outweighing its own galaxy, and it may be hiding clues to how the supermassive black holes seen today…

WIESBADEN/BIBLIS (dpa-AFX) – The South Hessian nuclear fusion start-up ‘Focused Energy’ has raised 240 million US dollars (206 million euros) to further develop its technology. The world’s first laser fusion…

A drug combination widely studied for its anti-aging potential may have a serious downside. Researchers at the University of Connecticut report that the treatment caused significant brain damage in mice,…

TAMPA, Fla. — Europe has proposed reserving two-thirds of 2 gigahertz mobile satellite spectrum up for renewal next year for European operators, complicating SpaceX’s direct-to-device (D2D) ambitions and the outlook…