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April 12, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm These baby beetles work together to look—and smell—like flowers Parasitic beetles are the first animals known to imitate floral…

An international team of astronomers has delivered one of the clearest measurements yet of how quickly the nearby Universe is expanding. Instead of resolving a long-standing issue, the new result…

Shopping Dope, guy-friendly finds for the office to garage to bathroom. by Rebecca Martinson We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in…

Just as audiences’ tastes change over the decades, so do their fears. Count Orlok’s shadow stalking the stairs in Nosferatu doesn’t quite inspire the terror in 2026 audiences as it…

Industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturer Vermeer Corporation has its sights set somewhere far from its Iowa roots: the moon. What’s going on: Vermeer President and CEO and NAM Executive Committee…

In May 2006, Tim Stinson travelled to England to tour the libraries of London, Oxford and Cambridge. At the time, he was editing a fourteenth-century poem for his PhD at…

Mars is a harsh and unforgiving world. Any life that may have existed there in the past, or could exist today or in the future, would need to survive intense…

Shopping Surprisingly useful home finds that won’t blow your budget. by Jill Layton Updated: 10 hours ago Originally Published: Aug. 3, 2025 We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase…

April 11, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Super heat conductor challenges fundamental physics With performance three times better than copper’s, this new material could substantially improve…

Imagine it’s a regular Tuesday morning and you’re in Antarctica. Your eyes meet the sky, and the blue is so vivid it feels electric. The air is so clean you…

You don’t want to ride the Wrinkle Wagon. That’s the vehicle that transports elderly people out of town when they are forced into exile in the realist dystopia of The…

Harnessing Fusion for Lifesaving Medicine: The Journey of Mo-99 SHINE Set for $263 Million DOE Loan for Its Fusion Technology Avalanche Energy Awarded $5.2M DARPA Contract for Fusion Tech ARPA-E…

The Buzz ■ Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion total, with most capital concentrated in five major players including Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Helion Energy ■ The funding surge reflects…

A star right here in the Milky Way galaxy is the purest ancient star astronomers have found to date. That means that it’s remarkably (although not entirely) unpolluted by the…

Autism BrainNet has released new survey results that reveal a major gap between public support for autism research and awareness of how that research is carried out. While most Americans…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Imagine you’re in line at your favourite bakery, deciding whether to have a…

It’s an exciting time to be a space fan! The safe return of the Artemis II crew has marked a historic milestone – humans have travelled to the Moon for…

A declining sense of smell may be one of the earliest warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease, appearing even before noticeable memory problems. New research from scientists at DZNE and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität…

The crises of the 1970s stimulated a great wave of R&D and innovation in energy. The three technologies that today dominate investment in US power generation – solar, wind and shale gas – all took vital steps forward as a result of pioneering research undertaken in the 1970s. In the current crisis, nuclear…

April 11, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm See NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon in 12 stunning photos The Artemis II mission’s 10-day odyssey around…

If you has asked any of the main creative forces behind Critters if their film was inspired by the recent success of Joe Dante’s Gremlins, you would get in response…

Satellite observations show that the planet is steadily getting brighter at night, but the trend is far from uniform. Data from the VIIRS DNB instrument, covering 2014 to 2022, indicate…

  The astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made it home. Their journey, which began in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 1 April, took them around the moon and further…

April 10, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm New fundamental physics measurement deepens quantum mystery A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson,…

During the last ice age, when glaciers spread across the northern world, ancient humans had some serious adapting to do; our species wouldn’t survive without developing new ways to keep…

April 11, 2026.  Add Us On Google – Add SciAm ‘Moon joy’ and the overview effect—how views from space change us. Artemis II’s views from space trigger a special type…

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a newly funded study by the National Institutes of Health is helping advance a potential new approach to Alzheimer’s disease treatment. The focus…

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil, and ARPA-E Director Conner Prochaska visited General Atomics (GA) this week to tour its fusion research…

The Artemis II mission ended in a dramatic fashion on April 10, 2026, when NASA‘s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of San Diego,…