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Rocket Lab just launched a mystery mission to orbit. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand site on Thursday (Sept. 10) at 11:28 p.m. EDT (0328 GMT…

Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught an AI model to help produce brand-new, deadly viruses. The AI—a “genome-language model” trained on DNA…

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a striking association between ADHD and digestive health after analyzing data from more than 1.9 million people across 23 studies. Overall, people…

Jocelyne Moyer, appointed as president and CEO of Next Hydrogen this summer, has experience in business management and renewable energy she expects will be relevant to her company. (Courtesy Next…

Sitting down for game night often involves a major killjoy: choosing who goes first. Some games set obscure conditions—for instance, the game Arboretum lets the person who watered a plant…

According to everything from Blade Runner to A Space Odyssey, we should already be zooming home from work in our flying cars, where robot butlers will serve us as we…

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—On July 24, the math world’s only true celebrity walked onto its most illustrious stage, to speak to the unprecedented threat that he and his peers are now facing….

Twenty-five years on, Matthew McCauley still remembers the dust. On September 11, 2001, he was working as a law clerk just blocks away from the World Trade Center in lower…

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Biology – the study of living things – can admittedly be a little reductive at times. It’s easy to miss important connections depending on how you look at an organism….

Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning. Continents collide. Tectonic plate edges slip, one beneath the other, into the mantle. Mountains rise, and chasms yawn,…

In the sea between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra lies Anak Krakatau. This volcanic island emerged from the remnants of the infamous 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, which lasted…

While he maybe isn’t as well-regarded yet as a John Carpenter or a David Cronenberg, it’s indisputable that one of the architects of contemporary horror is James Wan. Thrust into…

RTX Ventures has invested in laser fusion company Xcimer Energy to develop pulsed-laser technology for potential use in US military directed-energy systems. The collaboration brings together two applications that share…

El Niño conditions are helping to fuel wildfires across Indonesia, leaving some 100,000 people ill or injured, according to the country’s health officials. This year’s looming El Niño is predicted…

The X-Men may not have been formally introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe just yet, but their official introduction in Avengers: Doomsday has been a long time coming, from Evan…

Mike Flanagan loves a repertory cast. You can track the same actors throughout his television and film work, whether it’s his wife, Kate Siegel, or actors he’s familiar with, like…

In the nuclear fusion world, Thea Energy published a detailed, 16-page paper outlining its proposed Helios power plant. The power plant’s design could provide about 400 megawatts of continuous electricity…

Hawaii has had more than its fair share of storms this season. First, there was Hurricane Fausto in July. Then there were Hurricane Lala and Tropical Storm Moke in August…

Everyone gets wrinkles eventually—even planets. On Mercury, these signs of aging look like hills and ridges, called shortening structures, across its surface. As the planet shrinks and contracts over time,…

August 2026 has tied for the hottest month ever, sharing the record with July 2023, according to new data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The global surface…

The bodies kept appearing as if out of nowhere. In March a whale corpse was found floating in San Francisco Bay, seagulls perched on top like vultures at carrion. Then,…

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Astronomers have directly detected an extraordinarily faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light-years away, demonstrating a promising new method for mapping the vast structure of the Universe. The…

SpaceX will launch a secret mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off…

In a galaxy far, far away, strange objects beam radiation out into space. For years, these weird bodies have been hiding in plain sight—but now new observations reveal they may…

We already have quantum computers, but they’re highly specialized, not particularly practical, and only cover a fraction of the performance potential that scientists think this technology could ultimately unlock. Quantum…

A Madison-based fusion startup and one of Wisconsin’s largest utilities are teaming up to explore building a commercial fusion power plant in the state. Realta Fusion and Madison Gas and…

A new analysis led by researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, together with Professor Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford, is challenging one of the central…