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Most galaxies are thought to harbor a supermassive black hole at their center. These enormous objects can weigh millions or even billions of times more than the sun, creating some…

How did life begin? This mystery has tantalized scientists since Charles Darwin mused on it in 1871, spawning no shortage of competing theories about the origins of Earth’s biology around…

‘It is game-changing for the human race and, potentially, the planet we live on’ Professor Howard Wilson, science and technology director at STEP Fusion in Nottinghamshire (Image: LDRS) “If we…

More than 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s dementia, and that number is expected to climb to nearly 13 million by 2050. New research from Emory University suggests…

A once-daily pill has helped restore skin color in some people with vitiligo, a condition that causes white patches to appear on the skin. The development could offer an easier…

To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use DNA as a template. To make RNA, cells generally use DNA as…

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Despite major box office wins for films like The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, this summer at the movies otherwise felt a little quiet. The projects that most assumed…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. I have a quick content note before we begin: this episode features discussion of eating disorders. We’ll include some relevant…

Astronomers have found that some of the largest galaxies in the early universe contained many more small stars than scientists previously realized. That hidden population means these ancient galaxies may…

HOUSTON — What does NASA’s astronaut training hub look like these days, as the agency aims to bring more commercial space stations into the fold? It’s an interesting mix of…

People who speak more than one language may have brains that appear younger than expected for their age, according to research presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)…

JET concluded its plasma operations at the end of December 2023 and is being decommissioned (Source: UK Atomic Energy Authority) The Joint European Torus (JET) Decommissioning & Repurposing (JDR) programme…

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Hundreds of people across the U.S. have been sickened with a mosquito-borne illness that can cause flulike symptoms, debilitating headaches and, in rare cases, even brain swelling. This week New…

When survivors of trauma recount their experiences, they are often questioned because of how they relay their stories. They may have problems remembering what happened, or their memories may be…

The already superlative El Niño that began earlier this year is looking to be the largest El Niño in living memory and likely the strongest since the 19th century, the…

In this dawning age of artificial intelligence, tech companies are racing to train and run their large language models using massive data centers that guzzle electricity and strain resources. Even…

As the recent global pandemic waned – and the urgent need for widespread remote work began to fade into history – a new view started to emerge. It suggested remote…

General Atomics is designing a first-of-its-kind fusion energy test facility in Poway that engineers say could help move commercial fusion power closer to reality. The San Diego-based company is developing…

Your birthday tells you how many years you have been alive. But it cannot tell you whether your heart, brain, or kidneys have weathered those years equally well. That’s because…

New York City is no stranger to storms. Summers in the Big Apple can bring torrential, sudden rains, with water flooding into intersections and cascading down subway stairs, while nor’easters…

An endless road. Screaming hordes of people emerging from a dark forest. No exit. There’s no film out in theaters now quite like Alexander Ullom’s It Ends, an existential thriller…

Written by Carlos Albero Rojas Fusion energy spent decades chasing one scientific goal: get more energy out of a reaction than you put in. In 2022, researchers finally did it. The…

This summer the U.S. has been gripped by a parasite-borne illness that causes explosive diarrhea and has basically taken iceberg lettuce off the menu. But new U.S. Centers for Disease…

Back to Article List From the August 2026 issue Qu Xiaofeng captured this month’s astroimage spotlight while chasing the Geminid meteor shower — pausing to play guitar beneath the glow…

A decades-old puzzle in nuclear physics has centered on a strange question: why do some atomic nuclei release more low-energy gamma rays than scientists expect? A new study led by…

When insect pests get the munchies, some plants call in the microbes.  Gnawing fly larvae provoke cowpea plants to release chemicals into the soil that nurture a helpful community of…

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is planning to host a regional summit with other New England governors to explore the role advanced nuclear and fusion energy can play in New…