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For more than 100 years, scientists have been trying to understand cosmic rays, incredibly powerful particles that travel across the universe at extreme energies. Despite decades of research, many questions…

On April 30, a fusion company took a step that would have seemed like science fiction just five years ago. It applied to connect a 400-megawatt fusion power plant directly…

WASHINGTON — AST SpaceMobile may launch some of its direct-to-device satellites on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to expand the launch options for its constellation. In a May 11 earnings…

Researchers at UC Davis have developed a light driven technique that converts amino acids, the molecules that make up proteins, into compounds that behave similarly to psychedelics in the brain….

May 13, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Can hantavirus spread through the air? What we do and don’t know The Andes type of the hantavirus is…

Mexico City is trapped in a dangerous feedback loop. As groundwater is pumped from beneath the city, the ground subsides, with some entire regions sinking far faster than others. This…

The nuclear fusion company isn’t worried about going public as a pre-revenue company Most people playing the stock market would agree that it’s a good idea to ensure the…

Part of UK’s 4.9 trillion won nuclear fusion investment 사진 확대 Seoul National University has signed a joint research agreement worth 20 billion won with the British Atomic Energy Agency…

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Earth is traveling through a cloud of ancient stellar debris left behind by a long ago exploding star. By studying Antarctic ice that formed…

It was cold – but nowhere near what I expected; I’ve been colder in an outdoor swimming pool in Australia. It’s part of a global feedback loop, the scale of…

Add Us On Google – Add SciAm 2026 FIFA World Cup players and fans at risk of extreme heat, climate scientists warn Heat conditions could exceed dangerous levels at a…

The way people speak during ordinary conversations could offer valuable insight into brain health, according to new research from Baycrest, the University of Toronto, and York University. Scientists found that…

A brightly gleaming galaxy streaked with dramatic dust lanes and glittering pockets of star formation is more than just a pretty face. The Squid Galaxy – formally known as M77…

May 13, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Almost half of the objects in Earth’s orbit are junk—and that’s only the stuff we know about Debris is…

Believe it or not, we’re already down to the last weeks of The Boys. The superhero series has been a mainstay of Amazon Prime Video since 2019, but showrunner Eric…

Researchers say the famous comet known as Halley’s Comet may have been identified as a repeating object centuries before British astronomer Edmond Halley gave it his name. According to new…

You’d be forgiven for forgetting that Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) was once poised to lead the Star Wars saga into a new, exciting phase. Her first solo adventure premiered on…

May 13, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Radar picks up on bird migration. But how do we tell birds and storms apart? Flock shape, speed and…

Scientists say your daily coffee habit may do more than give you an energy boost. New research suggests that drinking a moderate amount of caffeinated coffee or tea could help…

Researchers are now deploying machine learning algorithms directly into the control systems of tokamak reactors to prevent sudden plasma collapses. These collapses, known as tearing modes, reconfigure magnetic field lines…

The ‘forever chemicals’ previously linked to multiple health harms really are everywhere: They’ve now been detected in 98.8 percent of 10,566 blood samples tested in a new US study. Technically,…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Go into any grocery store these days and you’ll see plenty of food-related fads, both new and old, being used…

A cataclysmic volcanic eruption is one of the most violent and disruptive things our planet can do. Vast clouds of ash and gas burst into the atmosphere, while blisteringly hot…

Researchers are increasingly employing artificial intelligence to help them solve some of the biggest challenges facing the energy sector – including, ironically enough, the massive spike in energy demand caused…

Machine learning is helping address a long-standing magnetic stability issue in tokomak reactors. Achieving the promise of nuclear fusion as a source of limitless, safe, and clean energy is a…

Where was Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) for the entirety of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2? That’s a question that inevitably kept popping up as the Punisher’s absence throughout Wilson Fisk’s…

May 12, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Trump’s FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigns Makary, a face of Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, oversaw the embattled…

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno may contain more than religious symbolism and poetic imagination. According to new research, the famous work could also represent an early thought experiment in impact physics, describing…

When a helicopter’s rotor blades approach the speed of sound, things can get a little dicey. Above about Mach 0.8, shock waves, drag, unstable flow, and turbulence can create significant…