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HYDERABAD, India, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Indian deep-tech company Hylenr Technologies has reported evidence of elemental formation, including rare-earth species, inside engineered Lattice structure systems — opening a radically…

Starting statin treatment soon after a type 2 diabetes diagnosis was associated with a reduced risk of developing dementia, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2026 and published in…

Water is one of the most commonplace, essential substances in the human world. We literally can’t function without its properties as a near-universal solvent. It falls from the sky. We…

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On September 2, 2026, Tennessee made nuclear energy history. The Department of Environment and Conservation handed Type One Energy the first commercial fusion machine operating license in the state —…

Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it’s conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in vampires, karma and ghosts, a new study finds….

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), widely used to treat diabetes and support weight loss, may also have benefits for mental health, particularly among people with bipolar disorder, according to new…

You may think you made a decision to read this article, but did you, really?  What we consider to be making a decision might in fact be a different kind…

Pineapple on pizza and rain on weekends shouldn’t exist on Earth, yet somehow they do. And a mysterious cosmic particle that was detected in 2022 shouldn’t have made it to…

An international team of scientists has identified more than 1,200 genetic variants associated with the Big Five personality traits. The findings also suggest that many of the same genetic patterns…

For the second time ever, someone has solved one of the seven Millennium Problems—math’s biggest targets, each worth a $1-million prize. But unlike the first time, that someone is an…

Add ThinkChina as a preferred source A look at the Comprehensive Research Facility for Key Systems of the Fusion Reactor (CRAFT) in Hefei, China, taken on 5 September 2026. (CNS)…

Atlases have long helped humans navigate unfamiliar terrain. And now a new atlas from Google DeepMind aims to better map the terrain of our biology: the human genome. On Tuesday…

An international team that includes Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has directly observed a long-predicted gravitational effect in a falling quantum object for the first time. The finding…

A fatal asthma attack appears to be a disaster contained entirely within the chest. The airways tighten, their lining swells, and mucus crowds the little space that remains. The lungs…

BERLIN — An eerily lifelike humanoid robot made by Chinese technology company Xpeng has now entered mass production, company representatives revealed. They say it’ll be the first such machine to…

While in Thailand’s mangrove forests filming Pteroptyx malaccae fireflies, known for synchronized flashing, researchers noticed a coincidence: nearby crickets appeared to chirp in time with the flashing insects. “I thought,…

Several challenges around engineering and materials remain. Singapore‘s push to support artificial intelligence (AI)-driven growth is putting fusion power in the spotlight, but experts disagree by decades on when the…

Forget boot prints on the moon or human missions to Mars—the real 21st-century space race is shaping up to be more about who can launch the most rockets and satellites….

We’ve known for a long while that too much sitting isn’t good for you. Numerous studies have shown just how damaging long hours of sedentary behavior can be. But as…

South Korea’s government is sharply expanding its energy technology research and development (R&D) budget for next year to respond to surging power demand driven by the spread of artificial intelligence…

We all know the power of music to make us feel better when stressed. But this relaxing effect goes much deeper than our mood: music changes our brain, reorienting our…

In 2018, Chinese geologists created a methane leak in the South China Sea. They were trying to figure out how much natural gas might exist in marine sediments, so they…

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have developed an artificial intelligence-based software framework capable of making rapid decisions to control fusion…

Because neither DC Comics nor Marvel are particularly big fans of change when it comes to their bread-and-butter, there are a lot of superhero identities that will probably never change…

More than a century ago, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung made introversion and extraversion central to his theory of psychological types. Today, we tend to use “introvert” and “extrovert” as…

How does one adapt Lovecraftian horror, which, by its very definition, is that of the unknown and indescribable — “unnamable terrors,” colors “outside of any known spectrum” — for the…

It happened so fast. It was 2019, and Megan O’Grady was 32 weeks pregnant with her first child. She took her dogs for a walk, just as she usually did….

Inside some fusion energy systems, particles hotter than the core of the sun can become unruly in a few thousandths of a second, far faster than any human operator can…