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On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering Explorer, it was Japan’s…

Stand in front of Turner’s Sun Rising Over Water (1825-30) and something odd tends to happen. The painting holds you, even though observers might struggle to say why. Maybe it…

We know, broadly speaking, that staying active keeps us healthy, and getting in a certain amount of steps each day is a simple way to go about it. What’s not…

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Washington have uncovered a previously underexplored feature of Alzheimer’s disease…

When two black holes find each other in the vastness of space, they can form a binary odd couple—and it’s more common than researchers expected. Scientists think most black holes…

Diamond is widely known as the hardest natural material on Earth. It is formed under immense pressure deep inside the planet and is often associated with strength, durability and permanence….

The eyes are said to be windows to the soul. Scientists now suspect they might offer a glimpse of something else, too: the rhythm of our attention. The clue is…

UK and US to sign a new agreement on fusion and AI to accelerate commercial fusion energy rollout and thousands of jobs in both countries Further transatlantic supercomputing partnership announced between…

The search is on for natural sources of hydrogen that could potentially fast-track humanity to a low-carbon energy future. As a fuel, it’s incredibly clean – but most hydrogen today…

Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths. There, dark and bright features sweep across the planet’s upper sulfuric acid clouds. Scientists…

Sometime soon—no later than December and likely earlier—one of NASA’s most successful astrophysical missions will be destroyed, doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has…

KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Marathon Fusion just demonstrated a single plasma machine that can both separate tritium from reactor exhaust and enrich lithium isotopes simultaneously — two problems the entire $14 billion fusion…

On a small, isolated island of Japan, lives a tiny population of Tsushima leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus). With only around 100 individuals believed to exist, they’re considered critically endangered…

Schizophrenia is tough to diagnose. Patients may present with hallucinations (sometimes), social withdrawal (maybe) or delusions (not always). More generally, they just sound unlike themselves. Clinicians rely on their expertise…

Mercury and Earth followed very different paths after they formed. Mercury, the smallest planet and the one closest to the Sun, appears to have cooled relatively quickly. Roughly one billion…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston…

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, may do more than suppress appetite and improve blood sugar. A National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded…

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A photo of a diamond sitting in a pool of meltwater. New research…

You finish a lecture, a meeting, a conversation with someone you care about. And what do you do? You reach for your phone. You stick in your earbuds. You fire…

TrekMania – Michael Okuda Talks LCARS, Easter Eggs, and Sci-Fi Innovation – YouTube Watch On On Episode 227 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined…

Our relatively stable global climate is governed by an incredibly complex set of factors, all interacting with each other in dynamic and changeable ways – but there are a couple…

When scientists refer to the deep sea as Earth’s most alien environment, they’re not exaggerating. Among the cast of bizarre characters are enormous armor-covered crustaceans with large triangular compound eyes…

Every commercial nuclear power plant on Earth is a fission plant. Not one of them generates electricity from nuclear fusion. Fusion has never delivered a single watt to a power…

On 12 December 2022, an orbiter traveling 251 kilometers (156 miles) above the southern highlands of Mars photographed a hill. It should have been an unremarkable shot – one of…

After a long day at work, it can be a struggle to resist the urge to just order food delivery instead of checking the fridge first. But when you do…

The Atlantic hurricane season just set a new record. While it’s not unusual for the Atlantic hurricane season to take a while to get going—the typical peak in storm activity…

Earth has an unusually large moon compared with other rocky planets in the solar system, but scientists still do not fully understand how it formed. A new study from researchers…

Munich-based stellarator company Proxima Fusion and the State of Lower Saxony have signed a memorandum of understanding to build Europe’s first large-scale fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting tape facility.   The MoU…

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week and left behind a blunt accusation on X: his former employers—Anthropic and, before that, OpenAI—were “gambling with our lives.” Then, in a move…