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Early signs of Alzheimer’s disease may be hidden in the way a person speaks, but it’s not yet clear which details of our diction are most critical for diagnosis. A…

March 19, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm When did plate tectonics on Earth begin? New research finds some of the earliest clues Scientists have found the…

Rachel Reeves, UK chancellor of the exchequer (left), and Patrick Vallance, UK science minister (centre), speak to an employee during a visit to the Siemens Healthineers factory.Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via…

Researchers have identified a specific part of the brain that may play a key role in high blood pressure. This area, called the lateral parafacial region, is located in the…

It would be tempting to assume there’s nothing much of note happening on Mars, but that dusty rusty planet has a lot of interesting stuff going on. Most of it…

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star. But it’s not, and in fact it’s not even close: The sun is in…

When a virus jumps to humans from another species, it can seem like a supervillain bent on world domination – especially if it goes on to ignite a pandemic, as…

The dream of limitless fusion has become a reality. Over the last 70 years, fusion has confounded the scientific world. As a global community, we have made serious inroads in…

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie has uncovered the clearest evidence yet that a rocky planet outside our Solar System has an atmosphere. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…

Comb jellies – very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows – first appeared in Earth’s oceans around 550 million years ago. For a long time, biologists…

March 22, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm How stress causes an eczema flare up Scientists have identified the neurons that worsen the condition during stress By…

Having put their big four movie monsters through every conceivable situation, Universal spent much of 1946 desperately looking for a new franchise-launching villain. They tried selling the masses a possessed…

GLP-1 medications, such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus), commonly prescribed for diabetes and obesity may also be linked to better mental health outcomes, according to new research. The study…

For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity here on Earth. And for nearly as long, achieving that goal always seemed just a…

Imagine waking up, groggy and bearded, on a space ship light-years from Earth. That’s how Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, awakens in the new space drama Project Hail Mary….

File this under: stuff you didn’t know you needed but now can’t stop thinking about. Steve Thomson, founder of the Guild of Handymen says, “It’s not the type of thing…

In a remarkable stroke of luck, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a comet in the middle of breaking apart. The odds of witnessing such an event at exactly the right…

When you think of science fiction in popular culture, a few major juggernauts spring to mind. There’s the stubborn and enduring Star Trek, a beloved mainstay of nerd culture since…

March 21, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Open-source software has an invisible vulnerability. Hackers have found it A cybercrime campaign called GlassWorm is hiding malware in…

Meeting the runaway energy demand of the artificial intelligence boom will require energy buildout and innovation at an unprecedented scale. After decades of plateaued energy growth in the United States,…

Shopping These strange and strangely useful finds are destined to be new favorites. by Shelby Ying Hyde Amazon/Inverse We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product…

Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, structured, and geometrical in their thinking some 60,000 years ago, according to some intricately engraved ostrich eggshells found across southern Africa. The surviving fragments from…

March 21, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Brain’s protective barrier stays leaky for years after playing contact sports Damage to the blood-brain barrier is linked to…

Mar 21, 2026 According to a report from Yahoo Finance, meeting the surging energy needs of artificial intelligence expansion requires an unprecedented scale of energy development and innovation. After a…

With NASA’s Artemis 2 rocket and spacecraft rolling back out to the launch pad for an upcoming moon mission launch, and March being Women’s History Month, now is the ideal…

Health officials in the U.K. are rushing to contain a deadly outbreak of a form of bacterial meningitis called by meningococcal meningitis launching a massive antibiotic and vaccination campaign for…

Artemis Imminent – Artemis II Back on the Pad! – YouTube Watch On On Episode 202 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Mike…

A partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering aims to advance critical infrastructure needed to accelerate and commercialize nuclear fusion power. According to Interesting Engineering, this…

This bonus episode of Lost Women of Science’s season on Katharine Burr Blodgett is a co-production with Distillations, a podcast produced by the Science History Institute. Agnes Pockels did pioneering…