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The Australian biotech company Cortical Labs recently posted a video in which 200,000 living human neurons grown on a silicon chip played the 1993 first-person shooter Doom. The neuron-controlled main…

It’s not uncommon for movies — especially genre movies — to be reworked to fit in an existing franchise. Saw 2 was originally a script entitled The Desperate. Multiple Die…

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Once upon a time, billions of years ago, the Universe was shrouded in darkness. It wasn’t until the first stars began to shine that space turned transparent and light flowed….

For more than 20 years, astronomers have been puzzled by a striking pattern of bright, evenly spaced stripes in the radio waves coming from the Crab Pulsar, the dense remnant…

March 28, 2026 5 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Can you survive inside a tornado? This scientist did by accident—he’s lucky to be alive Atmospheric scientist Perry Samson…

The Antennae Galaxies pictured merging in the constellation Corvus. (Image credit: Greg Meyer) Astrophotographer Greg Meyer took aim at the constellation Corvus to capture a majestic view of the Antennae…

Anyone who has had a severe stomach illness recognizes the pattern. Even after the worst symptoms fade, appetite often disappears and can take time to return. This same effect is…

A Japanese nuclear fusion startup is one step closer to creating a commercially viable fusion power generation system. According to Interesting Engineering, Japanese company Helical Fusion completed a manufacturing machine…

Denver, Colorado | Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become…

April’s full moon, known as the Pink Moon, is the first full moon of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It will be at its fullest on Wednesday, April 1, but…

WASHINGTON — The four Artemis 2 astronauts arrived in Florida March 27 for final preparations ahead of a launch still scheduled as soon as April 1. The four Artemis 2…

Science has always relied on a curious human’s mind forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing the results and presenting the case to that person’s peers. Over centuries, we’ve built…

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will make its first significant revisions since 1956 to reactor licensing standards to accelerate launching new advanced rectors. NRC Chairman Ho K. Nieh announced March 25…

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Science fiction has always been a flexible genre, one that covers a huge range of stories, from pulp adventures to space operas to time-travel rom-coms. It’s a constantly evolving, amorphous…

March 27, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of moon launch During their 10-day mission, this four-person crew will…

How far can curiosity go when the lab is a community workshop and the scientist is 12? Enough to rattle records and raise eyebrows, if his numbers hold up. Inside…

How much does a star determine what its planets are like? And could that influence whether those worlds can support life? Carnegie’s Luke Bouma is investigating a new way to…

A new study has uncovered a connection between malfunctions in the brain’s waste removal processes, known as the glymphatic system, and an increased risk of psychosis – and it looks…

March 27, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Trump’s new science panel includes 9 tech billionaires—and just one scientist There’s a glaring hole in the president’s new…

Ryan Gosling has been going all-in on space and sci-fi recently, with Project Hail Mary dominating the box office and a brand-new Star Wars story on the horizon. But those…

Today, Mars is known as a cold, dry desert, but its surface tells a very different story. Ancient channels, water-altered minerals, and other geological features show that the planet once…

March 27, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm We thought we knew the shape of the universe. We were wrong Decades of data have suggested the universe…

Pulsar Fusion has achieved first plasma in the exhaust test system of its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket, marking an early step toward a propulsion technology with the potential to dramatically…

With For All Mankind Season 5, the series that began in an alternate 1969 has now jumped ahead to 2012. And although that’s still set in the past, showrunners Matt…

Since video games were invented, they’ve been frequently used as a space to allow players to immerse themselves in fantastical worlds from film and television franchises, and one could argue…

March 26, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Disappearing Arctic sea ice breaks frightening record The Arctic sea ice maximum this year effectively tied for the lowest…

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–General Atomics & DIII-D National Fusion Facility: WHAT: Fusion is the process that powers the sun and stars. At the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a U.S. Department of Energy…