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May 10, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Celebrate Mother’s Day with nine bold, beautiful and bizarre animal moms Here are some of the most fascinating facts…

An artist’s impression of a light sail RICHARD BIZLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Interstellar travel propelled by light just got one step closer. Light sails, which are huge sheets pushed along by…

When an itch strikes, scratching usually brings relief after a few moments. Scientists have now uncovered part of the biological system that tells the brain when enough scratching has occurred….

After the landmark India-US Civil Nuclear agreement of 2008, US companies were allotted two sites – Chhaya Mithi Virdi in Gujarat and Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh. Westinghouse Electric Company had…

As the crickets chirped at 2 A.M. near Kennedy Space Center, a large team of scientists was puzzling over data tracking the temperature of a rocket component. A cold-gas thruster,…

While human beings have some impressive self-healing capabilities, we’re nowhere near the level of salamanders or axolotls that can resprout whole appendages – but might that change in the future?…

Utility rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 have become something of a relic at the USPTO. The Office mailed mailed over 650,000 office action rejections in 2025 – only 294…

WASHINGTON — MDA Space is continuing work on a robotic arm for the lunar Gateway while it discusses the future of the project with the Canadian Space Agency. In a…

Denver, Colorado In one of the highest-profile battles yet between the US research community and the administration of President Donald Trump, lawyers faced off in a Colorado courthouse yesterday over…

The motion of galaxy clusters in the distant Universe has just yielded the largest-scale test yet of the laws of gravity. Across scales that span hundreds of millions of light-years,…

Researchers have developed organoids that can regenerate like the endometrium, the lining of the uterus that sheds and re-forms during the menstrual cycle. The team used the miniature 3D structures…

May 9, 2026, 5:04 a.m. ET Plans for a Bill Gates-backed and Oak Ridge-based nuclear reactor will be used to build what supporters hope is the first privately led fusion…

WASHINGTON — The Space Systems Command’s commercial space office awarded Viasat a $307 million contract to provide satellite communications services for the U.S. Marine Corps. The company is retaining the…

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May 8, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on one Virologist Jay Hooper is developing…

The Bering Strait separates Alaska and Russia Ocean Color/OB.DAAC/OBPG/NASA It would be an engineering project on a truly epic scale, but we may one day need to consider building a…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that Germany intends to build the world’s first fusion power plant as part of a broader strategy to strengthen the country’s long-term energy security and…

“Baby brain” isn’t the deficit it’s stereotyped to be, research suggests. Neural adaptations during pregnancy can prime soon-to-be-moms to become more attuned to their children and enhance social cognition Daliah…

May 8, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The Pentagon just started releasing UFO files, but skeptics say they’re not impressed The Pentagon’s first UFO file release…

Across the Milky Way, about 190 light years from Earth, astronomers have identified a highly unusual planetary pairing. A massive hot Jupiter, a type of giant planet typically found alone,…

Diet and exercise are both factors that can influence how long you live, but they’re not the single greatest predictor of your longevity, research suggests. According to a recent study,…

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May 8, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm See the Pentagon’s new UFO image release The Pentagon has started releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP),…

May 8, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Wildfire breaks out in Chernobyl exclusion zone A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion…

Scientists studying gravitational waves believe they may have uncovered how the Universe creates its biggest black holes. Instead of forming directly from collapsing stars, these enormous objects appear to grow…

The U.S.’s most ambitious particle physics project ever is one step closer to reality. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be a giant in both budgetary and basic science…

WASHINGTON — Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords May 7, the sixth country to do so in the last two and a half weeks. Osvaldo Almirón Riveros, head of the Paraguayan…

Less than a year ago, astronomers spotted a comet passing through our solar system that originated far beyond it. The object, known as 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar…

Global infrastructure consulting firm Aecom has formed a consortium with two nuclear fusion developers to pursue what is being described as the first private‑sector‑led fusion power plant project in the…