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Environmental groups are suing the U.S. government over a proposed land deal with SpaceX. If approved, the deal will grant SpaceX hundreds of acres in a wildlife refuge in South…

Princeton University spinout Thea Energy has secured a $20 million award from the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program to scale production of high-temperature superconducting magnets for its fusion technology….

Cannabis is widely considered to be a stress reliever – at least for some – but there’s new evidence that it might actually have the opposite effect when used regularly….

NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday after completing an eight month science mission aboard the International Space Station. He traveled home with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and…

For hard-tech startups, manufacturing is a pricey endeavor. Now, Thea Energy has a leg up courtesy of a Department of Energy grant. The fusion power startup told TechCrunch Monday that…

Why do some dreams feel so vivid that they seem almost real, while others unfold as confusing fragments that are difficult to remember or understand? New research suggests the answer…

Last year, the God of War series turned 20. Kratos has been slaughtering his way through ancient monsters of myth and entire pantheons of gods for over two decades now,…

Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets in the Solar System, and both are surrounded by enormous families of moons. Jupiter currently has more than 100 reported moons, while…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. This isn’t our weekly science news roundup, because this week we’re doing something different. Today’s, Wednesday’s and…

Mass extinctions. Giant volcanic eruptions. Oceans suddenly deprived of oxygen. At first glance, Earth’s biggest geological disasters seem to have little in common beyond their sheer scale. But for decades,…

Genenta (Nasdaq: GNTA)-backed Sòphia High Tech, an Italian aerospace and defense manufacturer, announced ROMAN, a robotic arm for remote inspection and maintenance inside the RFX-mod2 nuclear fusion…

A surprisingly large number and diversity of bee species – 74 out of 96 tested – have magnetic properties, according to research my colleagues and Irecently published in the journal…

As recently as 2019, U.S. military health researchers had concerns about testosterone levels among the troops. Their worries were not that male service members didn’t have enough of the hormone,…

On July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to safely touch down on Mars. Shortly after, it beamed back our first close-up image of the surface—a…

The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too. Flight 13 launched on Friday (July 24), sending the 408-foot-tall (124 meters)…

Every year, millions of dry metric tons of biosolids – the nutrient-rich stuff left over from municipal sewage treatment, aka sludge – are applied to US soils. It’s a marvel…

Popular weight-loss and diabetes medications such as semaglutide and Ozempic belong to a broader group known as GLP-1 drugs. A study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has…

To the casual observer, the look and feel of shipping containers suggests a world of smooth, lossless transportation, almost immaterial in its implementation of a logistical ideal. However, the system…

Engineers at the ITER nuclear fusion facility in southern France have placed the final vacuum vessel sector module into its central assembly space, completing a critical structural stage for the…

We tend to think of melting as a relatively straightforward process – a solid material’s gradual slide towards liquid entropy. There’s at least one material in the Universe that has…

What if you could visit a place that does not exist on any map? A place whispered about online as though it sits just beyond the edges of our known…

Rachel Feltman: Hey listeners, it’s Rachel here. Before we get into today’s episode, I just wanted to acknowledge our unexplained absence from your feed over the last few weeks. To…

Welcome to part three of my trilogy on stars’ birth, life, and death. In last week’s Starwatch column about the life of stars, I told you how stars cook up…

Researchers at Uppsala University have determined that the Sun contains 55 percent more silver than earlier calculations suggested. Their updated estimate comes from a more realistic model of the solar…

In 2022, a batch of chicken and duck embryos that died before hatching arrived at a veterinary lab in China for testing. Buried in their brain tissue, researchers found Acinetobacter…

After decades of arduous preparation, the largest, most ambitious survey of the night sky ever created has at last opened its eye. This sweeping project, which started its observations in…

Researchers from VIB, KU Leuven, the UK-DRI and Muna Therapeutics, with funding that included support from ERC, have identified a major biological shift that may help determine whether Alzheimer’s disease…

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Scientists at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered that surrounding materials can dramatically increase how often nuclear fusion happens at low energies. The study opens up an…