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The landmark success of a drug against an ‘undruggable’ cancer is spurring fresh optimism in the quest to treat seemingly untouchable tumour targets. The experimental drug, daraxonrasib, disarms all three…

An international team of scientists has found evidence that autism may include at least two distinct biological subtypes, each defined by a different pattern of communication across the brain. One…

In Hoppers, scrappy scientists build a lifelike beaver robot that not only perfectly mimics its biological brethren but is controlled by a downloaded human mind — either exactly or not…

June offers plenty for skywatchers, including a close meeting between Venus and Jupiter, a rare event where the Moon passes in front of Venus, the arrival of astronomical summer, and…

A new study shows that computer malware powered by easily accessible artificial intelligence models is here—the research is a “wake-up call” to take cybersecurity risks from AI more seriously, one…

When a streamer drops an entire season of television at once, it feels like both a blessing and a curse. If the narrative is good, it’s nice to have the…

Issued on behalf of General Fusion Inc. VANCOUVER, BC, June 3, 2026 /CNW/ — Equity-Insider.com News Commentary — Fusion has been “thirty years away” for half a century — but…

Scientists have identified a specific brain circuit that appears to play a major role in anxiety, depression-like behaviors, and social withdrawal. Even more striking, they found that restoring balance within…

NASA has officially lost a decade-old Mars orbiter that performed vital scientific and communications work at the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launched in…

On December 7, 1877, Thomas Edison walked into the offices of Scientific American in New York City and placed a metal device on a desk. With a turn of a…

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin’s chief executive says damage to its New Glenn launch pad is not as bad as feared and that the vehicle could return to flight by the…

Fusion energy just pulled in another massive funding haul. Focused Energy, a startup developing laser-powered nuclear fusion technology, has closed a whopping $240 million Series A round, marking one of…

Last month, tour guides in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard made a grisly discovery, chancing upon the carcasses of a young male polar bear and an adult walrus in…

A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically modified pig. The man’s organ function was sustained for…

Ötzi the Iceman is about as deceased as an organism can be. He died 5,300 years ago, his body exquisitely mummified in Italy’s glacial Ötztal Alps – one of the…

The South Korean artificial sun, which goes by the name KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research), has made an important scientific discovery concerning nuclear fusion by being able to sustain…

The past year has been “filled with turmoil” in science policy, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) president Marcia McNutt said on Tuesday during the annual State of the Science address…

WASHINGTON — Roger Mason, President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Reconnaissance Office, told senators that the nation’s spy satellite agency is navigating a period of rapid innovation in commercial…

Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between a baby’s earliest biological programming, the gut microbiome, and later brain development. The findings, published in Cell Press Blue, suggest that epigenetic changes…

Not everything Adam Wingard directs can be a stealthy sequel to The Guest, but fans have been not-so-quietly hoping for a follow-up to the director’s 2014 thriller all the same….

Another U.S.-based energy company said its technology has achieved key performance metrics that advance its goal of commercial fusion by the mid 2030s. California-headquartered Pacific Fusion on June 2 said…

Astronomers have traced a mysterious type of repeating cosmic signal to an unusual pair of stars, providing the strongest evidence yet for the source of one of astronomy’s most puzzling…

Microsoft claimed today that it has improved its quantum technology by an extraordinary factor. Outside experts say it doesn’t even work and never has. The company has named its latest…

A team navigates an obstacle course on an Earth-bound rover as part of NASA’s 2026 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. (Image credit: USSRC/Megan Holbrook) Hundreds of students came together to design,…

Why do we decide to approach other people? According to new research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the answer may begin unfolding in the brain several seconds before any…

June 2, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Questioning everything Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of particles and forces…

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But researchers also worry that…

Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run Energy Complex in Anderson County (Photo: Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation) Tennessee will become the first state in the nation with its own regulatory…

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has put a choke hold on the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway, leading fuel prices to skyrocket and jeopardizing global stocks of critical resources—including fertilizer….