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Irrational numbers such as pi or the square root of 2 have always fascinated humankind. After all, they symbolize infinity better than anything else: their sequence of digits after the…

All of Season 2 was building up to one thing: a massive naval battle pitting Corlys Verlaryon’s fleet against the Triarchy, a massive, piratic fleet led by Sharako Lohar and…

The animal kingdom abounds with examples of fatherhood. In some cases, dads simply mate, handing over the actual care of young ones to the mothers. But in others, animal fathers…

For decades, fusion energy has been the ultimate promise of clean energy. It’s the process that powers the sun, capable of producing enormous amounts of energy without the carbon emissions…

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly…

As the brain develops, newly formed neurons must travel through tightly packed tissue to reach their final destinations in the cerebral cortex, where they become part of the brain’s communication…

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Father’s Day is an opportunity to recognize the efforts of dads everywhere. But becoming a father is more than just a lifestyle change—it alters one’s brain, too. Scientific American spoke…

Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a potential new approach for tackling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Both conditions are associated with the buildup of harmful clumps formed by…

Published on 17/06/2026 at 17:11 Helion Energy’s Orion Project received licenses from the Washington Department of Health to advance reactor construction and has an agreement to supply 50 MW of…

Who was the most important parent in the Star Wars saga? Which parent-child relationship was the most healthy? Obviously, we all know that neither Han Solo nor Anakin Skywalker were…

The research was supported by funding from the National Institute on Aging. oth physical and mental abilities. However, new research from Yale University paints a far more optimistic picture. The…

The latest generation of obesity drugs might have another potential benefit: improving fertility in men. A systematic review presented today at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, suggests…

In the blockbuster movie summer of 1991, which was arguably kicked off by Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in June and eventually dominated by Terminator 2: Judgment Day in July,…

Fusion energy company Helion became the first company in the world to secure the regulatory licenses needed for a fusion power plant. The Malaga, Washington-based company recently received two licenses…

Biology teachers around the world commonly introduce their students to the concept of ‘trophic cascades‘ with an example from Yellowstone National Park in the United States. It starts with the…

One of the biggest problems astronomers face when they peer into the night sky is that the heavens above appear two-dimensional. To the eye, that’s obvious; as far as your…

Fire was foundational to human evolution—cooking food over a fire eased digestion in early humans and made more energy available for the development of their brains; it also provided warmth…

In the army of defenders that is the body’s immune system, each cell has specific targets for which it surveils. As soon as it spots a marker of a foreign…

For the first time, a person living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has received a lung transplant from a donor who was also HIV-positive. The feat could open the door…

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) have signed a memorandum intended to deepen cooperation on fusion energy development. The agreement,…

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In 2019, entrepreneur Bryan Johnson began to experiment on himself by taking daily injections of rapamycin. This immunosuppressant drug is typically used to prevent organ rejection after transplants, but the…

The decision of whether to have children is a deeply personal one—so personal that it may be influenced by the attachment style someone develops in their own childhood. Attachment styles…

Germany has recently launched a multimillion-dollar fusion research hub, which will explore the extreme states of matter that exist deep inside stars and planets. The new High Energy Density Initiative…

Cutting down on sugar delivers a host of health benefits, from minimizing tooth decay to improving mental health. A new study in mice flies in the face of that research,…

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial public offering of SpaceX….

In most lines of work, an office filled with wine bottles might raise eyebrows. At the Food and Wine Science & Technology laboratory, located in the heart of France’s Burgundy…

Helion, a fusion energy company based in Everett, Washington, announced that it has secured two key regulatory licenses from the Washington Department of Health (DOH). This makes them the first…