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What if we could turn the Red Planet green? The idea of Mars made verdant with grasses, trees and other Earthly life-forms may sound like science fiction, but at least…

Deep beneath the planned IFMIF-DONES facility in Granada, Spain, a beam of deuterons will slam into a curtain of liquid lithium, generating one of the most intense neutron fields ever…

Scientists have discovered a powerful new way to decode the weather on distant worlds, revealing surprisingly organized patterns hidden within the turbulent atmosphere of a mysterious object 20 light-years from…

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Today an international group of scientists, diplomats and timekeepers voted to end the leap second, which has been keeping Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned with the time according to Earth’s…

Nearly half of US adults share their bed with a furry friend. But anyone who has slept with a dog knows they can be a total nuisance. They can take…

Brain cells that normally help protect the brain may play an unexpected role in cognitive decline as we grow older. Scientists have discovered that cells responsible for maintaining the protective…

LLNL scientist Andrea L. Kritcher was named one of nine recipients of the prestigious 2026 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for exceptional contributions in research and development supporting the U.S. Department…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. How much time did you spend on your phone this week? It’s okay; you don’t actually have to tell me….

On Oct. 17, 2016, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Space Systems) returned to flight, successfully launching a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) after its previous cargo mission…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is performing even better than scientists anticipated after engineers completed an extensive series of tests and precision adjustments. The work has brought the observatory’s…

The path to practical fusion energy runs directly through some of the most punishing conditions ever asked of a solid material. Inside a reactor core, structural components are battered by…

As the ‘90s ended with the success of gripping teenage dramas that amassed hordes of devoted audiences such as Dawson’s Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, television executives had their…

Plants seem stationary: they don’t skip, fly or walk around. But that doesn’t mean they don’t move. The organisms bend their roots and shoots in response to stimuli such as…

Like the surface of an ocean, the fabric of the Universe is constantly rippling with an infinitude of gravitational waves, propagating outward across the cosmos. We can count, in triple…

In the annals of ‘cat parasite’ research, Toxoplasma gondii grabs most of the headlines. The mysterious pathogen, which may infect up to one-third of the global population, is famous for…

Recently, a slender, yellow-striped California whipsnake, small enough to fit in a person’s hand, was brought to the California Wildlife Center in Calabasas. Its lower body was so twisted in…

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory may have found a dramatically more efficient route to fusion energy by reversing the traditional approach: heating plasma first, then increasing its density.  Their calculations…

We’re now 40 years on from the worst nuclear disaster in history, and scientists have been analyzing radioactive particles blown out by Chornobyl to see what’s left of the fuel…

Around a decade ago Theranos, one of the buzziest science start-ups ever, imploded. Swamped by allegations of fraud, the actions of the company and its enigmatic CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, shone…

Type 2 diabetes is not necessarily a lifelong diagnosis or a disease that gets progressively worse over time. Today, there is strong evidence to suggest that the risk of developing…

Stress does more than influence how we feel. It can also change what we remember, particularly when an experience is emotionally intense or personally meaningful. Scientists have long known that…

Scientists at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have identified a surprising shortcut to nuclear fusion that could dramatically reduce the energy needed to achieve ignition. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists may have found…

The beginning of fall and back-to-school time means cold virus season has arrived. Usually, colds hit as lesser-evil infections before influenza season takes over. But already, the flu is popping…

If there’s one thing the DC fandom has proven, it’s that we can be patient for The Reevesverse. After The Batman was beset with production pauses due to world events…

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising rule that appears to determine when black holes unleash powerful jets of material into space. Even though black holes can differ in mass by millions…

When you really dig down into the center of it, the key question of You Can See Everything is this: Where does Nathan Fielder go from here? In this astonishingly…

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a new model that it says reduced the resource requirements of a quantum computing operation by more than 100 times, while helping researchers develop…

When I was a kid, I once watched a science-fiction flick called Journey to the Far Side of the Sun. The story’s main conceit was that scientists discover an Earth-like…