Science

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its way to a metal-rich asteroid beyond Mars—and it’s enjoying the scenic route. In a flyby maneuver earlier this year, Psyche used the planet’s gravity…

Private investment in fusion energy is rising quickly. According to the Fusion Industry Association’s 2026 report, 56 fusion companies raised $4.48 billion in the past year. This is a 69%…

Twenty-four Starlink satellites reached low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 21), a day later than originally scheduled due to a last-second rocket engine abort. SpaceX at first tried to launch…

“Turn off that TV, it’ll rot your brain!” has been repeated in households for generations. The word “rot” is clearly an exaggeration, but new research suggests that heavy television viewing…

For decades, astrophysicists have been puzzling over a mystery hidden in plain view: Most supernovae come from the biggest stars, and most of our galaxy’s biggest stars are thought to…

The Moon has been exposed to the solar wind for billions of years. However, new evidence shows that its two hemispheres have not experienced that bombardment in the same way….

Scientists have taken a step toward developing an effective vaccine against shigellosis, the infection caused by Shigella bacteria. In a small clinical trial, two oral doses of a vaccine called…

Imagine you’re at a party. All your friends are crammed into a room, you’re having a blast – but it’s time to head home. You start to make your way…

A tiny organ in our chest cavity could be the key to regulating inflammation as we age, according to new research in mice. The thymus is nestled between our lungs…

There are certain laws of physics that heat must follow. Take Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, for example, which applies the idea of reciprocity to heat, and dictates that a…

The last week of July 2026 is a meteor shower lover’s dream. Not one but two meteor showers are set to peak, one after the other, from July 28 to…

Science may one day give us a way to replace damaged and diseased parts of the body with artificial replacements – but reproducing organs and tissues in the lab isn’t…

Alzheimer’s disease and several other neurodegenerative disorders are linked to a damaging change in tau, a protein that normally helps support the internal structure of nerve cells. Under healthy conditions,…

Astronomers are gearing up for a unique moon observation event: a stray piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is on track to hit the lunar surface on August 5….

SpaceX has pushed the next launch of its Starship megarocket back a few more days. Elon Musk‘s company is now targeting Thursday (July 23) for Flight 13 of Starship, the…

That’s two last-second launch aborts in a row for SpaceX. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets tried to loft 24 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in…

Imagine a small fire breaking out in one corner of your kitchen. With the right extinguisher, you might be able to stop it quickly. Instead, the sprinkler system activates and…

At the end of the particularly hot and dry summer of 1910, a series of lightning storms and human-caused sparks set 1,736 small fires across the northwestern U.S. Hurricane-force winds…

Every Marvel fan remembers where they were when the studio announced the cast of Avengers: Doomsday in a slow, arduous video where names were shown on the backs of chairs…

Human evolution is closely associated with the development of a much larger brain. New research suggests that greater exposure to estrogen before birth may have contributed to that expansion, and…

This past week, a child stood on the observation deck of Toronto’s CN Tower and looked out at a city skyline blurred by haze. Hundreds of miles away, National Guard…

On August 12 the sky will go dark for just two minutes and 18 seconds, at longest, across a swath of the world that includes Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain—and…

Terraforming is the process of reshaping a planet or moon so it can support humans and other Earth-like life. In theory, that means changing an alien world’s atmosphere, climate, and…

Inflammatory bowel disease affects millions of people worldwide, yet scientists still don’t fully understand what drives the chronic inflammation that damages the gut. Although treatments can help control symptoms, exactly…

The Perseids have a reputation as the “best meteor shower of the year,” according to NASA. This annual light show is prolific, with bright meteors falling all over the sky…

MADISON — State Sen. Dan Feyen, R-Fond du Lac, recently had a bill, Wisconsin Act 165, passed by the state Legislature to create a sales tax exemption to attract nuclear…

A Mediterranean-style diet may influence aging through an unexpected biological pathway involving tiny proteins produced inside mitochondria, according to a new study led by researchers at the USC Leonard Davis…

Try to think back to the last day you remember that wasn’t packed full of things to do, people to see, and places to go. Was it yesterday? Within the…

Ben Sutlieff wasn’t looking for a new planet. He’d set out to study the atmosphere of one of the two known planets orbiting a well-documented star system, Beta Pictoris. Instead,…