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Updated June 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) briefly took shelter and prepared for a potential evacuation because of worsening air leaks from a…

KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Nuclear shipping’s dirty secret just got a serious challenger — an American-Israeli alliance dropped a containerized fusion reactor concept at the world’s biggest maritime conference, and the implications reach…

Many stars are born inside vast clouds of gas and dust in space. As parts of these clouds collapse under gravity, they create dense regions known as molecular cloud cores…

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed…

A mentor can make or break an ensemble series. They have to be serious enough to ground the action and provide necessary exposition, but they can’t bring down the tone…

Billions of dollars in venture capital and state investments have recently been poured into efforts to finally make nuclear fusion a viable energy source—big bets that a futuristic leap is…

Astronomers from the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) have outlined a new strategy for uncovering one of the universe’s most elusive…

WASHINGTON — Amazon will fly its largest number of broadband satellites to date later this month on the first Ariane 6 launch to use upgraded boosters. Amazon announced June 5…

Mammograms, which are key to detecting breast cancer, could be paired with artificial intelligence to predict heart disease risk, too. Researchers have developed an AI model that scans mammograms to…

You may think you know what Cape Fear’s story is, but the Apple TV show, from the beginning, is completely different from the story you may expect. Sure, each adaptation…

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have cleared a significant hurdle in the pursuit of commercial fusion energy. In a paper published in Nature Communications…

Although Star City exists at the beginning of the For All Mankind timeline, with its first two episodes, it already introduced a new element that was previously unknown from Season…

The potential benefits of GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic or Wegovy, are stacking up. These novel medications were originally designed to treat diabetes, and now, millions more use the injections to…

Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a…

When Comet 3I/ATLAS entered our solar system last year—only the third known interstellar object to do so—astronomers took notice. And so did scientists searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, who were curious…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first mid-infrared chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object, providing new insights into the composition of comet 3I/ATLAS as it traveled away from…

Logo of the Ministry of Science and ICT. Provided by the Ministry of Science and ICT A total of 22.5 billion KRW will be invested over four years starting this…

Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between….

A “cannibal” coronal mass ejection (CME) birthed from a rare type of sunspot will slam into Earth tonight (June 4), likely bringing auroras to skies above 23 U.S. states. The…

Ilayda Cakirtekin 04 June 2026•Update: 04 June 2026 The Italian Chamber of Deputies approved a framework law Thursday on nuclear energy, allowing the government to draft regulations on sustainable nuclear…

When the pandemic hit, just like so many Americans, researcher Emma Harrington started working remote. What shocked her most in those early days of COVID was how productive she was….

SpaceX now has 53 more Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit after two successful launches in less than 19 hours from opposite U.S. coasts. A pair of Falcon 9 rockets…

WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee moved to preserve a Space Force missile-warning satellite program the Pentagon plans to cancel, authorizing $415 million for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared…

At a White House briefing on Thursday, President Donald Trump invoked a national defense law to steer nearly $700 million to support coal power plants and exports. Trump aims to…

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced the company has published five peer-reviewed physics basis papers detailing its work on the group’s ARC fusion power plant. The papers, published in a special…

A very rare type of cancer is on a sharp upward trajectory in younger generations, and no one knows why. Recent research in the US reveals that Gen X-ers and…

The White House on Wednesday moved to strip civil service protections from about 8,000 federal workers, including many working at public health agencies. The executive order effectively transforms these positions—which…

WASHINGTON — SpaceX plans to raise at least $75 billion in its initial public offering, valuing the company at more than $1.75 trillion. The company filed an updated prospectus for…

For nearly 200 years, biologists felt they had a pretty good grasp of the nudibranch genus Thecacera. Consisting of six known species found in marine habitats around the world, these…