Science

SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) is shaping up to be the biggest in history—if, that is, the company achieves its targets. On the road show it has taken to investors,…

After months of anticipation, Steven Spielberg’s new sci-fi flick Disclosure Day is now in theaters. Its fictional premise concerns a group of people planning to leak the long-suppressed news that…

SAN FRANCISCO – The European Space Agency awarded AAC Clyde Space a 10.9 million euro ($12.6 million) contract to complete development and demonstrate VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) satellites for…

According to a new UN report, AI is expected to consume roughly 3% of the world’s electricity over the next four years. While a major point of concern for everyday…

Just days after NASA’s experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced another milestone for the research aircraft. The plane is designed…

China is working toward a major nuclear fusion milestone that will put it leagues ahead in the global race to unlock the ‘holy grail’ of clean energy. The Experimental Advanced…

Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2), a lunar robot from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), could have been plucked from a science-fiction movie. It’s small—about the size of a baseball—it’s…

When you’re prospecting for gold, sometimes you can find treasure of a different kind. That’s what happened in the desert of Western Australia, where geologists looking for deposits of the…

Artificial intelligence is already playing a major role in helping cosmologists study the universe. Now, new research suggests a machine learning technique called transfer learning could make the search for…

An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new species from a vast, dimly lit habitat between the sunlit surface and the deep ocean. The international team of scientists aboard the…

A coalition of maternal health groups on Wednesday recommended four shots for pregnant people, including COVID and flu immunizations. The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) immunization schedule, endorsed…

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–General Atomics (GA) announced today that the company is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop design concepts for a facility dedicated to testing full-scale…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered striking differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121 b. These boundary zones, known as terminators,…

If you’ve never heard of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi before, I wouldn’t blame you—unless you happen to be a ficus. With symbiotic trade relationships spanning roughly 70 percent of plant…

Since the war with Iran began, the Trump administration has drawn down the U.S.’s emergency oil reserve to near its lowest level since the Reagan era. In a bid to…

Researchers from the private nuclear fusion energy company Commonwealth Fusion Systems have published a series of papers that they claim confirm that their flagship ARC reactor will produce more usable…

NASA has unveiled new details about Artemis III, one of the most ambitious human spaceflight missions planned in decades, while also introducing the four astronauts who will fly the mission…

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to fall. These are math’s most famous open questions….

Watching hours of “sheepdog YouTube”—competitions where trained dogs shepherd a small number of unpredictable sheep—gave scientists a key insight into how to control chaotic swarms. The trick, they write in…

HELSINKI — China has conducted a pair of launches to advance its communications capabilities, using the country’s largest rocket and a commercial launcher. The Long March 5 lifted off at…

The US Department of Energy has formally approved Xcimer Energy’s preconceptual design and technology development roadmap milestone for Athena, the company’s architecture for fusion power plants.   Athena is the…

Slime molds are slippery, nebulous beings. They’re not true molds. They’re not even fungi. For most of their lives, they exist as either plasmodia or amoebae, and they refuse to…

A new study suggests that eating more ultra-processed foods could make it harder to stay focused and may contribute to factors linked to dementia, even among people who otherwise follow…

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit deeply flawed—assistants…

Three years ago, a single “ghost particle” soared into the Mediterranean with more energy than any ever observed before. This ultra-energetic cosmic neutrino challenged previously held conceptions regarding the upper…

A widely used supplement marketed for joint pain relief may be linked to faster progression of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research from the University of Florida. The study found…

A large swath of the U.S., spanning the Upper Mississippi Valley, the Midwest and some of the Atlantic Coast is at risk of severe weather. “Scattered to numerous” thunderstorms, golf-ball-sized…

Jack Moore In the United States, California has long been at the frontier of the nation’s pursuit of harnessing fusion as an energy source, the process by which lighter atomic nuclei, such as hydrogen, merge to form a heavier nucleus, releasing energy. This is…

A large international research team led by groups at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has reached a major neuroscience milestone by publishing a complete map of every connection between…