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A metal detectorist in the west of Germany has discovered one of the largest hoards of Roman silver coins ever found in that country from the reign of the Emperor…

An amateur astronomer searching satellite maps for possible camping locations in Quebec ended up spotting something far more unusual: evidence of a previously unrecognized impact crater. Earth has only about…

North Korea says it just demonstrated some advanced new weapons tech. The nation successfully test-launched “a new type of weapon” on Sunday (Sept. 20), the state-run Korean Central News Agency…

Hyderabad: Deeptech startup Hylenr on Tuesday said it has completed Phase 1 of an independent validation study of its lattice confinement fusion (LCF) reactor at Texas A&M University, advancing efforts…

President Donald Trump rejected international efforts to regulate artificial intelligence during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Trump compared the apparent risks of AI to climate…

The Enterprise has risen. In 1964, model maker Richard C. Datin constructed the first physical incarnation of the most famous fictional starship of all time. Designed by artist Matt Jefferies,…

For years, people have debated whether drinking coffee in the evening interferes with sleep. Some people can have caffeine late in the day and fall asleep easily, while others may…

After a successful late-August launch, the $4.3-billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is cruising to its final orbit about a million miles from Earth. If all goes well, NASA’s latest…

Five years after Zack Snyder’s vision of the DCEU came to a close with the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, James Gunn’s new vision of the DCU is finally…

▲ The venue of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on July 17 (local time) China is responding to the explosive power demand of data centers…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached another major milestone in space. Mission teams have successfully powered up the Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel infrared camera designed to survey…

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo spacecraft intentionally fell into Jupiter and disintegrated…

Humans are continuing to push Earth beyond livable levels of heat, pollution and other conditions—both for us and for millions of species. That’s the upshot of the annual Planetary Health…

A new brain imaging study led by scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has uncovered what researchers describe as the strongest evidence so far that long…

When we think about black holes, we tend to imagine dominant cosmic titans that consume everything around them. However, for many years scientists have mused over the existence of far…

Hylenr Inc. has completed the first phase of an independent study of its lattice confinement fusion reactor at Texas A&M University, reporting thermal, gas and material signatures that the company…

An international team of astronomers co-led by an IAS scholar has identified what appears to be a universal rule governing one of the most dramatic behaviors of black holes: the…

President Donald Trump’s reported plans to establish a committee to oversee—and possibly veto—scientific grants issued by the nation’s top health agency via an executive order would undermine U.S. science and…

Zombie movies are a veritable genre of their own. From Dawn of the Dead to Shaun of the Dead, tales of the undead emerging and wreaking havoc can be small-time…

In the video introduction for the Fantastic Fest screening of Carrie, series creator Mike Flanagan said that he’s been asked many times: “Why Carrie now?” And the miniseries makes that…

A new type of brain implant could give scientists a more precise way to study the brain and may eventually contribute to treatments for neurological conditions such as epilepsy. Researchers…

Two weeks ago OpenAI claimed a solution to one of the biggest open problems in math—the Navier-Stokes problem—an achievement worth a $1-million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute. The proof…

TEL AVIV, Israel and ALEXANDRIA, Va. and HOUSTON, Sept. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — nT-Tao, an Israeli compact fusion energy company, and Orion Nuclear Energy Corporation, a U.S. developer of…

The Parthenon is a stunning example of ancient Greek architecture—but it is also the site of an optical mystery. If you look closely, the platform on which the columns of…

It’s hard to imagine a system of physics simpler than a billiard table. Send a ball across the table, and its path follows a simple rule: It travels in a…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. Let’s catch up on some recent headlines. Today we’ve…

China’s push into next-generation nuclear technology has reached a new milestone: ENN Group broke ground on the ENN Fusion Spherical Ring Hydrogen-Boron Plasma Platform, or Helong-2, which the company says…

There’s a lot more to sleep than just the amount of time that passes between you drifting off and waking up again – and the different facets of our slumber…

For years, paleontologists have been piecing together clues that suggest Tyrannosaurus rex may have been quite unlike modern reptiles—including the possibility that it may have been warm-blooded. But you can’t…