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For decades, researchers have invested billions of dollars in Alzheimer’s treatments designed to target amyloid beta, a peptide that forms harmful deposits in the brain. But a biochemist at the…

UK Fusion Energy Ltd (UKFE) has invested nearly £120m in advancing the design of STEP Fusion, the UK’s prototype fusion power plant programme. According to its 2025/26 Annual Report, more…

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This folksy aphorism is a popular nugget of homespun wisdom meant to remind us to leave things alone. It speaks to human nature,…

An amateur astronomer harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) agents to find a previously undiscovered exoplanet lurking in publicly available data. Pavel Rabtsevich, a Spain-based product manager who is a space-science hobbyist,…

Menopause has long been thought of as a terminal moment for the female reproductive system, when ovaries stop releasing eggs and presumably call it a day. But this simplified image…

A scorching hot planet nearly 320 light-years from Earth has provided the first direct evidence for a fundamental assumption about how planets form. Astronomers discovered that WASP-189b shares an important…

A new model for nuclear fusion has potentially discovered a significantly more energy-efficient way to achieve nuclear fusion, and flipped everything we thought we knew about the fusion process. The…

WandaVision sparked two spinoffs, Agatha All Along and VisionQuest, and each of those introduced one of Wanda and Vision’s reincarnated twin sons. In Agatha All Along, it was Billy Kaplan…

The National Institutes of Health is weighing changes to the procedures it uses to allot scientific funding. Experts say the change—concealing scores on applications for grants—could reduce transparency around how…

Just two weeks after reaching orbit, Europe’s new Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite has delivered its first spectacular images of Earth, revealing everything from the snow-covered Alps to the frozen Arctic and…

Feeling overwhelmed by stress or struggling to adjust when things go wrong? Everyday habits such as eating a nutritious breakfast, getting regular exercise, and sleeping enough may play an important…

While Star Trek’s official birthday is on September 8, the celebration of the 60th anniversary of this incredible and venerable sci-fi franchise will basically continue all year. And with a…

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Reentry and orbital-manufacturing provider Varda Space Industries is operating two spacecraft in orbit right now, with another expected to launch “in the coming days” and seven more next year. The…

Mathematicians are finally making sense of the biggest event in decades for their field—and it’s stranger than anyone thought. In early September, OpenAI posted an inscrutable 166-page solution of the…

A furry predator that lived 165 million years ago is offering scientists an unexpected glimpse into the evolution of mammals. Known as Megacauda sungei, this ancient hunter measured only about…

Gold is occupying a broader place in wealth management conversations as investors weigh currency risk, geopolitical uncertainty and the preservation of family capital. At a private roundtable and working lunch…

From the dawn of human civilization to today, death remains the ultimate mystery. We’ve found ways to delay the end with science, we search for what lies beyond it using…

Scientists racing to save critically endangered species may soon have a new tool at their disposal: sex-changing clones. For the first time, researchers managed to turn cloned male mouse embryos…

A massive galaxy cluster dating back to an era when such enormous structures were only beginning to take shape is challenging scientists’ understanding of how the universe evolved. New observations…

The tiny torture device that is a honey bee’s barbed sting could be among the most sophisticated of venom-delivery systems in the natural world. While scorpions and spiders crudely squirt their…

Could mathematics help uncover new ways to fight Alzheimer’s disease? A researcher at Mississippi State University is using mathematical models to investigate how common metals influence the buildup of proteins…

The sharp stab of a bee sting hurts bad enough, but it’s the venom that makes the pain last. The stingers of honeybees (Apis mellifera) are typically single-use. In the…

Hurricane Isaias may have arrived late in the Atlantic hurricane season, but the torrential rains and 105-mile-per-hour winds the storm brought to the U.S. Gulf Coast over the weekend were…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. Some of the biggest stories in science last week…

SpaceX just broke an uncharacteristically long Starlink launch drought. The company sent 27 of its Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) today (Oct. 12), launching them atop a…

General Fusion has announced its large-scale Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) experiment achieved electron temperatures above 12M°C, a milestone co‑authored and measured by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). The Canadian…

An ancient formation of bright anorthosite, a rock commonly found on the Moon, stands out among the heavily deformed rocks of southern Madagascar. A bright, unusual patch of rock in…

When cancer cells learn to survive a drug designed to stop them, where do you turn next? A new study points to an unexpected possibility: a medicine used to treat…