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While the mutant-massacring Sentinels and Magneto, the Master of Magnetism himself, are more recognizable X-Men villains simply because of how long they’ve been part of the mythos, there’s perhaps no…

Brad Bird really misses the way movies used to be made — or, more accurately, the way movie stars used to be. The venerated director was a welcome presence earlier…

Hot on the heels of humanoid robots besting Usain Bolt’s record in the 100-meter sprint is a marathon-running dog bot. The quadrupedal machine, named RAIBO2, ran the full 26.2-mile marathon…

The University of Liverpool has joined a new transatlantic partnership of higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States to advance research, skills, and policy in fusion…

The earliest stages of planet formation may have been far more selective than scientists once realized. As the young Solar System began assembling solid objects such as planets, moons, and…

Since its launch this summer, the tagline for Strange New Worlds Season 4 has been: “Boldly go one step closer to where it all began.” And now, with the Season…

Chris Nowinski lived the athlete’s dream: playing high school football, then National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I football at Harvard University and then professional wrestling in the WWE. But at…

As of Aug. 30, 2026, NASA‘s Curiosity rover has officially seen the sun rise and set over Mars’ reddish horizon more than 5,000 times in its quest to discover if…

Scientists have long treated the brain as a single organ with a shared developmental origin. New research led by Stanford Medicine challenges that basic assumption, suggesting that what we call…

(Image credit: Atomic Energy 2.0) China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has commissioned a breakthrough supercapacitor-based pulsed power supply system to modernise the operation of the Huanliu-3 (HL-3) tokamak. “This system…

While the highest-grossing films of 2026 so far are massive blockbusters like Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, it’s impossible to overlook just how much horror has dominated the…

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have pushed the search for microscopic black holes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) into new territory….

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On Sept. 22, 2006, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a sun-observing satellite called Hinode, or Solar-B. It was named after the Japanese word for “sunrise.” The satellite orbits about…

Deeptech company Hylenr has completed Phase 1 validation study of Lattice Confinement Fusion (LCF), at Texas A&M University to independently evaluate its lattice-based energy technology and advance its roadmap towards commercialisation. The validation study focused…

Stem cell transplants may be able to repair damage caused by stroke, according to researchers at the University of Zurich. In experiments with mice, the treatment helped generate new neurons,…

The moon has no shortage of craters. But a newly discovered pit discovered by NASA scientists has proven to be the cosmic equivalent of a needle in a haystack. Each…

A metal detectorist in the west of Germany has discovered one of the largest hoards of Roman silver coins ever found in that country from the reign of the Emperor…

An amateur astronomer searching satellite maps for possible camping locations in Quebec ended up spotting something far more unusual: evidence of a previously unrecognized impact crater. Earth has only about…

North Korea says it just demonstrated some advanced new weapons tech. The nation successfully test-launched “a new type of weapon” on Sunday (Sept. 20), the state-run Korean Central News Agency…

Hyderabad: Deeptech startup Hylenr on Tuesday said it has completed Phase 1 of an independent validation study of its lattice confinement fusion (LCF) reactor at Texas A&M University, advancing efforts…

President Donald Trump rejected international efforts to regulate artificial intelligence during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Trump compared the apparent risks of AI to climate…

The Enterprise has risen. In 1964, model maker Richard C. Datin constructed the first physical incarnation of the most famous fictional starship of all time. Designed by artist Matt Jefferies,…

For years, people have debated whether drinking coffee in the evening interferes with sleep. Some people can have caffeine late in the day and fall asleep easily, while others may…

After a successful late-August launch, the $4.3-billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is cruising to its final orbit about a million miles from Earth. If all goes well, NASA’s latest…

Five years after Zack Snyder’s vision of the DCEU came to a close with the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, James Gunn’s new vision of the DCU is finally…

▲ The venue of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on July 17 (local time) China is responding to the explosive power demand of data centers…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached another major milestone in space. Mission teams have successfully powered up the Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel infrared camera designed to survey…

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo spacecraft intentionally fell into Jupiter and disintegrated…