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Commonwealth Fusion Systems, one of the leading startups racing to perfect a new clean energy technology, said on Thursday it raised $1 billion in new funding to help complete its…

Making a turducken – stuffing a chicken inside a duck, then stuffing that inside a turkey – seems like a recent Thanksgiving tradition, but paleontologists in Australia may have found…

History is full of aha moments where an apparent failure was actually the breakthrough people didn’t know they needed. Take champagne, discovered when French winemakers kept finding their bottles exploding…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a show about big swings. Its second season might have taken the biggest of all in its attempt to humanize…

Europa has captivated scientists for decades because a vast ocean of liquid water may be concealed beneath its frozen surface. That buried sea has made Jupiter’s icy moon one of…

Tens of thousands of undiscovered ancient structures known as “earthworks” are likely hidden in the Amazon near the border between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. That’s what researchers concluded after flying…

When it comes to animal intelligence, octopuses have few rivals. Some species of the cephalopods lug coconut shells around for mobile shelter; others radically transform their bodies to mimic deadlier…

China has achieved a major milestone in its pursuit of commercial nuclear fusion by completing the construction and testing of a colossal 582-ton superconducting magnet designed for its next-generation “Artificial…

The taste of a madeleine famously sent French writer Marcel Proust back into vivid memories of childhood. New research suggests that this kind of recollection may involve more than the…

In French author Marcel Proust’s 1906 novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) a bite of madeleine cake triggers a flood of childhood memories. Scientists…

Food plays an important role in many important moments in our lives, whether it’s grand occasions, like the wedding banquet, or smaller ones, like the weekend barbecue, the lunch date,…

Sweet foods can be offered as a reward from the earliest stages of life. Yet the sugar we consume before we can even speak may leave traces in our brains…

WASHINGTON — The Department of Transportation is proposing to exempt commercial space launch licensing from many environmental regulations, a move praised by industry but criticized by environmental groups. The department…

When an atomic bomb detonates, it produces a unique chemical environment that’s nearly impossible to mimic in a lab—and amid its destruction, the explosion can create something completely new. One…

image:  Leadership from ORNL and Rutherford Energy Ventures at the FULCRA kick-off meeting on June 19, 2026.  view more  Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy The Department of Energy’s…

Updated July 28, 2026 at 11:30 AM A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck just south of the city of Kumamoto on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon local…

Quantum mechanics is so odd that even the visionary genius who described the secrets of the Universe seemed to dismiss certain aspects as eerie. “Spooky action at a distance” is…

WASHINGTON — A spacecraft launched nearly a month ago in a high-risk bid to boost the orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite is suffering from attitude control problems that could…

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has observed a rare supermassive black hole far from the center of a distant galaxy as it tore apart and consumed a star. Astronomers describe…

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Nuclear power startup Antares Nuclear said Monday that it has raised $470 million to build small reactors for U.S. military bases. The Series C round, which was led by Paradigm…

There are a few iconic symbols of Game of Thrones, but none of them are as recognizable as the Iron Throne. It’s the image that was emblazoned on posters, parodied…

This scenario will feel familiar to many parents: Imagine spending the day watching your kids—making them breakfast, settling arguments, answering their questions and trying to keep them from getting bored….

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed a highly successful flyby of Mars, giving the mission a carefully planned gravitational boost while also producing valuable scientific data. Researchers are now examining those observations…

Around 7,500 spoken and signed languages are used worldwide today. Yet this extraordinary diversity may represent only a fraction of the linguistic richness humanity once possessed. A new modeling study…

China has taken a major step towards building an artificial Sun after completing and testing the world’s largest superconducting fusion magnet, a key component needed to generate clean, virtually limitless…

Insects are everywhere: from fruit flies to ants to bees to cockroaches, they are seemingly inescapable. But there is one place on Earth where insects are nowhere to be found:…

Constipation and abdominal pain often occur together, but scientists still don’t fully understand how the nervous system coordinates movement through the bowel with the sensations arising from inside it. In…

Driving while listening to the radio; making breakfast while talking to the family; eating a sandwich while reading a book. Our daily lives are built on multitasking, but are our…