Science

We’ve made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century. One of the stranger patterns to appear in this is a global proliferation of tentacled creatures known as…

Fusion’s push toward commercial power is creating a new challenge for the industry to produce enough specialized material for the magnets that control the reaction. Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies…

About 8,000 people in the U.K. are living with Huntington’s disease, a devastating inherited condition that gradually affects movement, thinking and mood. Now, an advanced type of MRI scan could…

Parents strive to support their children’s physical and mental well-being, whether it’s constant cross-town drives to karate, mashing a million peas, or absorbing countless CoComelon marathons.  Adopting a pet is…

Photo Credit: American Fusion Nuclear fusion firm American Fusion is preparing another round of plasma experiments around its Texatron concept after receiving a portable vacuum vessel.  The system is designed…

“Onward and Upward” Mission of Isar Aerospace – YouTube Watch On No rocket has ever reached orbit from European soil — but that could change today. The German company Isar…

You have two nails in the wall and a painting with a string on its back, which can easily be rested on the nails to hang the painting. If you…

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created an injectable biomaterial that may help the brain recover from damage left behind by an ischemic stroke. In experiments with mice, the material…

28 Days Later is hugely significant for many reasons: it was a key film in the 2000s zombie revival, it was a British production that competed with the best American…

Before birth, the human brain is assembled through an enormous series of cellular choices. At the center of this process are radial glia, a special type of stem cell that…

Early on Thursday morning technical researcher Eric Lu sparked worldwide excitement and confusion by posting a sequence of 130 digits on X (formerly Twitter). The reason for the uproar over…

A superconducting material being considered for future fusion magnets turned amorphous under intense electron irradiation, while a rival material retained its crystal structure. The stark contrast between Bi-2212 and Nb3Al…

Some seven centuries ago, a man in Scotland had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day indeed. There he was, going about the business of living, when something interrupted. Something…

Researchers at the University of Oxford have found evidence that Mars may once have contained enormous Earth-like magmatic systems deep below its surface, even though the planet does not have…

GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic are never out of the headlines for long. They’ve proven to be very effective for managing weight loss and type 2 diabetes, but questions…

How nutritious is cockroach milk? At last, this burning question is getting the recognition it so sorely deserves: the team answering it has received one of the 2026 Ig Nobel…

It goes without saying, but a key element of any successful superhero is the costume. It’s pretty hard to imagine Spider-Man becoming such a cultural phenomenon without the eternally cool…

The state of Tennessee issued what officials called the first license to a commercial nuclear fusion project in the U.S. under a new regulatory framework to speed up development of…

A new study suggests that deliberately changing the rhythm of your breathing can influence how you make decisions by altering activity in both the heart and brain. Researchers from the…

“It’s great to have great sex and hot-fudge sundaes,” says cognitive scientist Laurie Santos, who studies the science of well-being at Yale University.   “But ultimately, true happiness probably comes from…

Hardly anyone reckoned that struggling in high school to calculate the area of a triangle or the volume of a prism could be used one day to influence the outcome…

Astronomers have identified a little-studied population of faint remnant radio galaxies that appear to fade quickly after their central supermassive black holes stop producing powerful radio jets. The findings provide…

In 1976, when Kerry O’Quinn launched the magazine Starlog, he knew it could be a success. Not only was he confident that Star Trek — and its connected sci-fi fandoms…

Pranos says it built the machine in around eight months and plans to operate it for nearly two decades, targeting 10-12 experimental shots a day, or about 3,000 shots annually….

Aging often makes itself visible in familiar ways, from gray hair and wrinkles to lapses in memory. That has fueled a longstanding scientific question: Could some of those changes eventually…

The Pentagon is pausing guidelines under a controversial policy to require testosterone testing for service members over the age of 30, Reuters reports. The policy, which was announced in July,…

This December, Shang-Chi will be one of the many heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will gather to fight Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. When that movie comes out,…

September brings a busy lineup for skywatchers, including a dazzling Venus, a Harvest Moon near Saturn and Neptune, the seasonal equinox, and opportunities to use the Moon as a guide…

Too much ‘bad’ cholesterol in the bloodstream – that’s the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) type – can contribute to plaque buildup in the arteries, increasing the risk of cardiovascular problems like…