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TAMPA, Fla. — The European Space Agency has picked Canadian small satellite operator Kepler Communications to lead a hosted payload mission to test terminal interoperability for HydRON, ESA’s flagship optical…

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – A unique “spin” on fusion energy research is under development at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, fueling future efforts to harness…

April 14, 2026 – Washington, D.C.—The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) and ispace technologies U.S., inc. (ispace-U.S.) today announced that ispace-U.S., a U.S.-based commercial lunar exploration company, has joined its Board…

April 14, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Colombia will euthanize Pablo Escobar’s invasive ‘cocaine hippos’ After attempts at relocation and sterilization have failed, invasive hippos introduced…

Feeling lonely may affect how well older adults remember things, but it does not appear to make memory decline happen faster over time. This conclusion comes from a large European…

BOULDER, Colo. (April 14, 2026) — Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, part of RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) Raytheon business, is increasing reaction wheel production capacity to support…

They say hatred is a curse, a spell that poisons the wielder more than the object of their ire. Director David Lowery certainly believes in the former, but his latest…

Fusion developer Inertia Enterprises on Tuesday forged new partnerships with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the latest sign that the Department of Energy is joining forces with energy startup companies….

Pokémon’s beloved world of charismatic and powerful “pocket monsters” and their trainers may be fantastical, but it has arguably become one of the most scientifically thought-out. Themes of conservation and…

HELSINKI — A pair of solid rocket launches have added to China’s satellite internet and commercial remote sensing capabilities, sending a total of nine satellites into orbit. The two launches,…

Yuancheng Ryan Lu could barely breathe while he waited for his labmate to adjust the microscope focus. On the slide in front of them were the results of Lu’s latest…

Add Us On Google – Add SciAm Sperm whales may make their own vowel sounds, similar to human language. Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in…

COLORADO SPRINGS – President Donald Trump signed the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act April 13, reestablishing key sources of funding for early-stage space companies. The legislation reauthorizes the…

Several decades of fusion research have produced accomplishments of two types. First, the discipline of plasma physics has developed to the point that theoretical and experimental tools permit quantitative evaluation…

Adults who have never been married are at a significantly higher risk of developing cancer than those who are married or have been in the past, new research suggests. A…

Over the last three decades, there’s been a concerted effort to make video games appeal to a more cinematic sensibility. 1996’s Resident Evil, the interactive narrative stylings of David Cage,…

NNSA has approved the Enhanced Fusion Yield Capability project, a move made possible by @SecretaryWright’s streamlining regulations. This initiative will boost the laser energy at the National Ignition Facility, enabling…

April 13, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling A man with HIV has gone into remission…

The Hunger Games made a huge splash in 2008, but Suzanne Collins’ YA dystopian thriller posed a big problem when it came time for Collins to write a sequel: how…

“Compleximers”—materials that can be molded like window glass but that resist impacts like plastic does—shouldn’t exist, researchers say. Nevertheless, a few grams of one such substance sit in a laboratory…

Since the genre shifted off the page and onto the realm of the silver screen, the great game of espionage has always been presented as a gentleman’s game. Most spy…

Rare-earth elements might represent small slivers of the global metals market, but they’re big sticks on the geopolitical stage, where China wields its considerable heft as a bargaining chip during…

Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a “reborn” black hole in action, revealing a dramatic outburst that has been compared to a “cosmic volcano” spreading across…

Spotting a gray whale in San Francisco Bay can be thrilling, but researchers now know it can be bad news for the marine mammals. Nearly 1 in 5 gray whales…

April 10, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II crew returns to Earth On Friday these four astronauts and their Orion spacecraft will splash down…

Imperiled ‘cloud jaguar’ spotted in Honduran mountains for the first time in a decade, These images, conservationists say, are evidence that wildlife corridors are paying off. By Jackie Flynn Mogensen…

Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › The global race to harness the power of nuclear fusion could reshape the world’s energy landscape. Princeton Today The race to unlock…

COLORADO SPRINGS – Sophia Space will begin deploying edge compute nodes on Kepler Communications satellites in late 2026, under a strategic pact announced April 13. Through the partnership, Sophia Space…

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