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Oh geez, this again? Last week NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to answer questions about the space agency. When Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas…

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones reveals the key role microbes play in intestinal stem cell function, recent research shows. After receiving a fecal microbiota…

FORT COLLINS — A $160 million laser research facility being built at Colorado State University will position the university at the center of a growing push to develop fusion energy…

May 10, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there Scientists long assumed Venus’s harsh environment would…

Shopping Revamp your space without blowing your budget. by Jill Layton We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. You…

Is testosterone the next miracle drug? That seemed to be the consensus of an expert panel convened by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December. It argued for…

Scientists at Ames National Laboratory are currently expanding a new artificial intelligence tool to improve predictions regarding how materials behave during the operation of fusion energy systems. This expansion involves…

WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have finalized an agreement to collaborate on a mission to study the asteroid Apophis during its close flyby of…

Many of us owe our moms our very survival into adulthood. It’s a harrowing job, making sure children don’t find their way into sticky situations. But the protective umbrella of…

Neuroscientists have identified a measurable brain difference between people with psychopathic traits and those with few or none. In a study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, researchers from…

May 10, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Celebrate Mother’s Day with nine bold, beautiful and bizarre animal moms Here are some of the most fascinating facts…

An artist’s impression of a light sail RICHARD BIZLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Interstellar travel propelled by light just got one step closer. Light sails, which are huge sheets pushed along by…

When an itch strikes, scratching usually brings relief after a few moments. Scientists have now uncovered part of the biological system that tells the brain when enough scratching has occurred….

After the landmark India-US Civil Nuclear agreement of 2008, US companies were allotted two sites – Chhaya Mithi Virdi in Gujarat and Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh. Westinghouse Electric Company had…

As the crickets chirped at 2 A.M. near Kennedy Space Center, a large team of scientists was puzzling over data tracking the temperature of a rocket component. A cold-gas thruster,…

While human beings have some impressive self-healing capabilities, we’re nowhere near the level of salamanders or axolotls that can resprout whole appendages – but might that change in the future?…

Utility rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 have become something of a relic at the USPTO. The Office mailed mailed over 650,000 office action rejections in 2025 – only 294…

WASHINGTON — MDA Space is continuing work on a robotic arm for the lunar Gateway while it discusses the future of the project with the Canadian Space Agency. In a…

Denver, Colorado In one of the highest-profile battles yet between the US research community and the administration of President Donald Trump, lawyers faced off in a Colorado courthouse yesterday over…

The motion of galaxy clusters in the distant Universe has just yielded the largest-scale test yet of the laws of gravity. Across scales that span hundreds of millions of light-years,…

May 9, 2026, 5:04 a.m. ET Plans for a Bill Gates-backed and Oak Ridge-based nuclear reactor will be used to build what supporters hope is the first privately led fusion…

WASHINGTON — The Space Systems Command’s commercial space office awarded Viasat a $307 million contract to provide satellite communications services for the U.S. Marine Corps. The company is retaining the…

Researchers have developed organoids that can regenerate like the endometrium, the lining of the uterus that sheds and re-forms during the menstrual cycle. The team used the miniature 3D structures…

We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. Being bougie is about surrounding yourself with the finer things, and it’s…

May 8, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on one Virologist Jay Hooper is developing…

The Bering Strait separates Alaska and Russia Ocean Color/OB.DAAC/OBPG/NASA It would be an engineering project on a truly epic scale, but we may one day need to consider building a…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that Germany intends to build the world’s first fusion power plant as part of a broader strategy to strengthen the country’s long-term energy security and…

“Baby brain” isn’t the deficit it’s stereotyped to be, research suggests. Neural adaptations during pregnancy can prime soon-to-be-moms to become more attuned to their children and enhance social cognition Daliah…

May 8, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The Pentagon just started releasing UFO files, but skeptics say they’re not impressed The Pentagon’s first UFO file release…