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A deadly virus ravages and changes society for the worse. A fascist leader runs the country and his goons are disappearing people off the street. Late night talk show hosts…

The UK government announced on Monday that it will invest £45 million, about $60 million, to build a powerful new artificial intelligence supercomputer to accelerate nuclear fusion research. The system,…

Lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, is a monoclonal antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that targets and removes harmful amyloid plaques while slowing cognitive decline. Scientists from VIB and KU Leuven have…

March 17, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Medical cannabis isn’t an effective treatment for anxiety, depression or PTSD, new research shows People frequently use medical cannabis…

3I/ATLAS is pretty strange International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains water and carbon molecules at levels never before seen in our solar system. This suggests that it…

Researchers investigating a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called cosmic birefringence have created a new approach to reduce uncertainty in how it is measured. The advance, reported in Physical Review Letters, could…

Research suggests you can keep your brain sharp into old age by learning languages and creating art – and it seems birdwatching may have similar effects. A new study from…

Add Us On Google – Add SciAm Judge temporarily blocks key parts of RFK, Jr.’s effort to overhaul U.S. childhood vaccines A federal judge on Monday issued a stay on…

Deep Fission has finally broken ground on its cutting-edge power project in the Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons, Kansas. The innovative start-up seeks to turn traditional nuclear power production…

A new study from UCLA Health reports that long-term residential exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos is linked to a substantially higher risk of Parkinson’s disease. People living in areas with…

It’s the raucous party celebrating the prison release of Jimmy Boy (Jimmy Tatro), the golden son of crime lord Sosa (Keith David). The champagne is flowing, the boys are hollering,…

March 16, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Crabs are cannibalizing one another with surprising rapacity in parts of the Chesapeake Bay A 37-year study in the…

At this point, it’s fair to say that the Academy Awards is no longer the exact same institution that it was 15 or 20 years ago. It certainly hasn’t avoided…

Fusion power potentially offers almost limitless, clean energy from a process similar to that which powers the Sun, but significant challenges remain in making it commercially viable. Successive governments have…

March 16, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Deadly campus meningitis outbreak in the U.K. kills 2, sickens many more Tens of thousands of people in the…

In the ongoing campaign by artificial intelligence companies to take over pure mathematics, another round is commencing. The team behind First Proof, an effort to benchmark the ability of large…

An artist’s impression of how Visigoth warriors may have looked in the 5th century The Creative Assembly (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) The Goths were a multi-ethnic society, according to a study…

California-based startup Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, has begun drilling the first of three planned data acquisition wells in Parsons, Kansas,…

March 15, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm What Bugonia reveals about the real search for aliens In the Oscar-nominated film Bugonia, Emma Stone’s character is accused…

A worrying health pattern for some of the Gen X and Millennial crowd has been highlighted by a new study: people born between 1970 and 1985 are experiencing worse mortality…

While GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic are now being broadly championed and widely used, several studies are revealing some potentially worrying side effects – including new research that…

At its core, Zootopia 2 is a defense of snakes. The Oscar-nominated sequel to Zootopia centers on an unlikely pair of animal police officers—Judy Hopps, a rabbit, and her fox…

March 16, 2026 TOKYO – The National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) plans to start constructing a prototype reactor for fusion power generation in the late 2020s, with…

A rugged Martian landscape that resembles a giant spiderweb when seen from orbit may hold important evidence about the history of water on ancient Mars. For roughly six months, NASA’s…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Pablo Martinez Mirave is a Postdoctoral Fellow on Theoretical Particle…

March 15, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Spaceflight supercharges viruses’ ability to infect bacteria Viruses develop tricks to attack bacteria without the help of gravity By…

A new study may have solved a long-standing mystery about the Moon’s magnetism: Why do lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions show evidence of an intense magnetic field…

Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have discovered new clues suggesting that water once moved beneath the surface of Mars. The findings indicate that the Red Planet may…

Lord Vallance will unveil a £2.5billion Government strategy aimed at igniting a nuclear fusion revolution in Britain on Monday, March 16, with ministers seeking to shield the nation from the…