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Many tech leaders try to justify the AI bubble based on a possible cure for a disease or on enabling nuclear fusion (or rogue autonomous agents hacking websites and creating…

Sometimes what we see does not immediately make sense. A shadow can briefly resemble a face, or one object can momentarily be mistaken for another. New research suggests that the…

On Wednesday Australia’s prime minister revealed that one of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents hacked into a health care platform maintained by the nation’s government—and that OpenAI took months to inform…

Mars may have been a much wetter and more geologically active world than it is today, with water repeatedly coursing through its rocks in different forms, a new study suggests….

A faint ribbon of stars can be seen stretching across the galaxy in the image above. Known as a globular cluster stellar stream, this type of structure preserves clues about…

When an experimental artificial intelligence model from OpenAI broke out of a cybersecurity test this summer and infiltrated the platform Hugging Face, the latter turned to a surprising tool to…

M3 experiments demonstrate fuel compression using a simpler, lower power driver, marking an important step towards commercially viable high-gain inertial fusion M3 experiment validates FLARE’s core approach to compressing fusion…

SpaceX has completed assembly of the Starship rocket slated to launch the test vehicle’s most ambitious mission to date. Flight 14, the 14th full-stack launch of Starship’s test campaign, is…

Greater amounts of REM and deep sleep were associated with lower risks of dozens of diseases, and less than 5 hours of total sleep was associated with high risks of…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Your social media feed is probably full of “maxxing” right now: “looksmaxxing,” “protein maxxing,” “sleep maxxing.” But what about “poop…

Annual meteor showers are always high points of the year, but in fall, we are treated to a two-for-one deal that runs for months. Called the Taurids, these showers dazzle…

Without billions in new federal investment the United States may lose its pole position in the global race to be the first nuclear fusion superpower, Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob…

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted on Wednesday in favor of a blood test for multiple cancers. The Galleri test is designed to help screen for…

While the mutant-massacring Sentinels and Magneto, the Master of Magnetism himself, are more recognizable X-Men villains simply because of how long they’ve been part of the mythos, there’s perhaps no…

Brad Bird really misses the way movies used to be made — or, more accurately, the way movie stars used to be. The venerated director was a welcome presence earlier…

Hot on the heels of humanoid robots besting Usain Bolt’s record in the 100-meter sprint is a marathon-running dog bot. The quadrupedal machine, named RAIBO2, ran the full 26.2-mile marathon…

The University of Liverpool has joined a new transatlantic partnership of higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States to advance research, skills, and policy in fusion…

The earliest stages of planet formation may have been far more selective than scientists once realized. As the young Solar System began assembling solid objects such as planets, moons, and…

Since its launch this summer, the tagline for Strange New Worlds Season 4 has been: “Boldly go one step closer to where it all began.” And now, with the Season…

Chris Nowinski lived the athlete’s dream: playing high school football, then National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I football at Harvard University and then professional wrestling in the WWE. But at…

As of Aug. 30, 2026, NASA‘s Curiosity rover has officially seen the sun rise and set over Mars’ reddish horizon more than 5,000 times in its quest to discover if…

Scientists have long treated the brain as a single organ with a shared developmental origin. New research led by Stanford Medicine challenges that basic assumption, suggesting that what we call…

(Image credit: Atomic Energy 2.0) China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has commissioned a breakthrough supercapacitor-based pulsed power supply system to modernise the operation of the Huanliu-3 (HL-3) tokamak. “This system…

While the highest-grossing films of 2026 so far are massive blockbusters like Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, it’s impossible to overlook just how much horror has dominated the…

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have pushed the search for microscopic black holes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) into new territory….

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On Sept. 22, 2006, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a sun-observing satellite called Hinode, or Solar-B. It was named after the Japanese word for “sunrise.” The satellite orbits about…

Deeptech company Hylenr has completed Phase 1 validation study of Lattice Confinement Fusion (LCF), at Texas A&M University to independently evaluate its lattice-based energy technology and advance its roadmap towards commercialisation. The validation study focused…

Stem cell transplants may be able to repair damage caused by stroke, according to researchers at the University of Zurich. In experiments with mice, the treatment helped generate new neurons,…