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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a striking new feature in Saturn’s atmosphere: a huge, evolving 10-sided wave circling the planet’s south pole. It is the first time scientists have…

GSLV-F17/EOS-05 MISSION – YouTube Watch On India plans to notch a spaceflight milestone today (Sept. 3), and you can watch the action live. A GSLV Mark II rocket is scheduled…

One of the most special treasure collections in the world has been stolen. At 5.16 am on the morning of August 27, an alarm rang out at a sports center…

Scientists are baffled after discovering a weird decagon-shaped wave in the atmosphere of the planet Saturn. The 10-sided phenomenon appears to have formed over the planet’s south pole recently, but…

ADHD affects millions of people and can make everyday tasks involving focus, impulse control, and sustained attention more difficult. At the same time, traits associated with ADHD are also found…

Realta Fusion and Madison Gas & Electric are exploring a 200-megawatt fusion power plant. The proposed plant could serve MGE‘s 170,000 customers in southern Wisconsin. Realta plans to build a…

Aging is inevitable, but it’s certainly not consistent. We might think aging proceeds in a steady, linear fashion, with each day, week, and month marching us sedately into our Golden…

Rescue operations and clean-up crews are still working in the wake of last week’s devastating debris avalanche and floods in Nepal and Tibet. Researchers believe the catastrophe, which has so…

NASA and SpaceX have delayed the planned launch of Crew-13 to the International Space Station after engineers discovered an oxidizer leak in the propulsion system of the mission’s Dragon spacecraft….

The impulse in a sequel is always to go bigger. In terms of sheer altitude, Fall 2: Deadpoint doubles its predecessor: Instead of being trapped atop a 2,000-foot abandoned radio…

Persistent financial hardship may speed up age-related cognitive decline, according to new research led by University College London (UCL). Published in Innovation in Aging, the study analyzed information from 2,759…

The world is on track to exceed the Paris Agreement target of no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above preindustrial temperatures within the next few…

Another reusable Chinese rocket has taken to the skies. Pallas-1, a launcher developed by the Beijing-based company Galactic Energy, flew for the first time ever on Monday (Aug. 31), lifting…

Reaching another star within a practical amount of time will require something far more capable than chemical rockets. One of the leading ideas is a solar sail, a large reflective…

MADISON (WKOW) — Realta Fusion and Madison Gas and Electric announced a partnership to explore building a 200-megawatt fusion energy power plant in Wisconsin that would produce energy for U.S. consumers….

In the liminal darkness of the water column deep under the sea, an entire ecosystem thrives. Under pressure, temperature, and light conditions deeply inhospitable to humans, life has found many…

Magicians might pull a rabbit from a hat or a coin from behind an ear. But an island in Canada just pulled off its own ecological magic trick: it disappeared….

Scientists are realizing that turtles, lizards and crocodilians communicate vocally more than they once thought Rohini Subrahmanyam, Knowable Magazine September 2, 2026 7:30 a.m. In loud conditions, a tokay gecko…

Microglia are the brain’s most abundant immune cells. They help protect the brain from harmful invaders, clear away damaged neurons, and support normal brain development. Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute…

Inertia Enterprises and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have jointly developed a new manufacturing process for the cryogenically frozen deuterium-tritium fuel layers at the core of inertial confinement fusion targets—cutting production…

Could a scientist intervene in a brain experiment on the other side of the world without leaving their desk? Researchers have now demonstrated that possibility by sending commands from Chicago…

This is the injectables age. With more than one in 10 Americans now taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and some of us branching out to various other peptides, we have as…

Inside some fusion energy systems, particles hotter than the core of the sun can become unruly in a few thousandths of a second, far faster than any human operator can…

The Sun does far more than provide Earth with light and heat. Two recent NASA-funded studies suggest that events from the Sun’s distant past may have influenced Earth’s climate in…

How old do you think you will live to be? Your answer may be more revealing than you realize. A study that tracked older adults in Japan for up to…

People who reach their 90s without dementia might appear to have escaped much of the danger of cognitive decline. Until recently, however, scientists had relatively little evidence showing what happens…

A flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon on Saturday, killing at least two people. Such events are a vital part of the canyon’s ecosystem, but this one just happened…

Tennessee has officially become the first state in the nation to issue a fusion-specific byproduct material license, marking a monumental step forward for commercial nuclear fusion. Governor Bill Lee, alongside…

With obesity rates increasing at alarming rates, researchers are amassing as much data as they can on the many risk factors and drivers of the condition. If we know the…