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Archaeologists have unearthed an intact bronze cannonball used at the Battle of the Alamo. They made the discovery one day before the 190th anniversary of the historic conflict between Mexican…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A “shadow committee” of autism researchers and science advocates met in the nation’s capital for the first time on Thursday. Called the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee (I-ACC), the group…

The UK government recently unveiled its UK fusion strategy 2026, which includes £125m of funding to develop the artificial intelligence (AI) growth zone at Culham, Oxfordshire. This includes a…

When people try to focus on a faint sound, many instinctively shut their eyes. The common belief is that removing visual distractions allows the brain to concentrate more fully on…

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March 20, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Everything about this week’s record-shattering western heat wave is extreme An astoundingly strong heat wave is not just setting…

A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According to multiple teams of scientists, human…

Deep within Greenland’s vast ice sheet, scientists have uncovered an unusual chemical signal that has sparked years of debate. At the center of the mystery is a sharp rise in…

The European Commission has approved a new two-year research agenda to advance EU nuclear energy capabilities, with a strong emphasis on fusion energy, reactor safety, and technological independence. The 2026–2027…

Artist’s depiction of the asteroid 2025 MN45 NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC​/AURA/P. Marenfeld The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has spotted the fastest-rotating large asteroid ever seen. Despite measuring…

A major paper published in The Lancet reports that medicinal cannabis does not effectively treat anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The analysis is the largest to date examining…

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a…

Dan (Jason Segel) is being weirdly emphatic about his weekend plans with his wife, Lisa (Samara Weaving). They’re going to spend the weekend in their remote cabin in the woods,…

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors, a compact, gas-rich galaxy that can be seen with the naked eye from the southern hemisphere….

image: ©koto_feja | iStock The European Union is investing in its efforts to secure a cleaner, more independent energy future with a €330 million initiative in nuclear research and innovation…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in the Project Hail…

Earlier this month, Texas state Rep. James Talarico eked out victory in a heated race to become Texas’s Democratic nominee for the US Senate race this November. Texans haven’t elected…

A gaping hole was left on a small island in the Pacific Ocean when the United States military released an 18-kiloton nuclear blast in 1958, known as the ‘Cactus‘ test….

March 19, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like the same mating calls Whether it’s a canary’s chirp…

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Netflix will always be synonymous with streaming, but it’s important to remember it truly started with home media. The mail-in DVDs were, essentially, a precursor to streaming media, just done…

The story of Project Hail Mary is largely successful because of how relatable and likable the hero, Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), is. Both the 2021 Andy Weir novel and the…

March 19, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Influential vaccine advisory panel may be ‘disbanded’ after lawsuit, says former vice chair For years, ACIP has advised U.S….

3 min read Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Our best mathematical model of the universe doesn’t match our observational reality, especially the existence of dark matter….

For as long as Star Wars has existed, fans have wondered how they would fare in the galaxy. From video and role-playing games to reams of fanfiction, there have always…

March 19, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71 The Mordell conjecture—now known…

AI systems could soon be able to hijack satellites in orbit and cause them to collide with other spacecraft, potentially triggering a dangerous cascade of smash-ups that could render the…

The ILIOS consortium has been appointed as the construction partner for the UK’s STEP Fusion programme, while Kinectrics has been named as the design and fabrication partner for the UKAEA-Eni…

March 18, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show We have severely…