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Plasma flashed inside the exhaust system, held in place by electric and magnetic fields. This scene marked a small but closely watched step in Pulsar Fusion’s bid to build a…

April 7, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II ‘free return’ trajectory lets gravity do the work An elegant mix of math and gravity powers…

Right now all eyes are on Artemis II, NASA’s historic mission that just sent astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than a half-century. But, as detailed…

Life cannot begin on a planet unless certain chemical elements are available in large enough amounts. Two of the most important are phosphorus and nitrogen. Phosphorus helps build DNA and…

HOUSTON — President Donald Trump on Monday hailed the courage and grit of NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts after their historic flyby around the moon, a feat that made them the…

April 6, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II’s moon flyby is underway On Monday, the four astronauts of Artemis II observed the far side…

Is consciousness simply created by the brain, or could it be a deeper feature of reality itself? That question is at the center of a presentation by Christof Koch, a…

Apr 7, 2026 According to a report from Euronews Next, recent geopolitical events have returned energy security to prominence. The disruption of a major global oil transit route has been…

April 6, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Trump speaks with NASA’s Artemis II astronauts after historic moon flyby On Monday night, the president of the United…

April 6, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II crew experience total solar eclipse from space From the perspective of the Orion capsule, the moon…

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, and a company called IoLiTec is trying to figure out how…

Depending on which fan you ask, the street level side of the Marvel Universe has been arguably more popular than the bold superheroics of the Avengers and other super-groups since…

April 6, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are officially farther from Earth than any human has gone before The four astronauts onboard…

HOUSTON — After five days in space and five decades of waiting, human astronauts are about to get an unprecedented view of the moon. With Earth in the rearview mirror,…

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. First, a quick update on NASA’s moon mission,…

While the Pentagon’s push to rebuild the nation’s industrial base has centered on missiles, munitions and shipyards, another set of vulnerabilities is emerging: the supply chain that underpins U.S. military…

When Maul: Shadow Lord was announced, I thought I knew what I was in for: Star Wars’ take on The Penguin, a dark, noir-esque story of a minor villain from…

NASA’s Artemis II moon mission reaches greatest distance from Earth. The space exploration milestone came during a 40-minute period during which the Artemis II astronauts were unable to communicate with…

Researchers led by the University of Warwick have introduced the first unified approach for identifying “spacetime fluctuations” — tiny, random distortions in the structure of spacetime that appear in many…

April 3, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Where is Artemis II now? NASA mission is committed to the moon The second day of the Artemis II…

INSIDE A TOKAMAK. The doughnut-shaped nuclear fusion reactor chamber | Photo Credit: quantic69 Nuclear fusion, arguably a yet-to-be-proven commercial energy source — and a big-bucks game — is gaining traction….

A team of researchers in Canada has identified a new way to slow the growth of glioblastoma, the most aggressive and currently incurable type of brain cancer, and they have…

Who on earth would want to reboot Faces of Death? While it’s technically a horror franchise — eight installments were released between 1978 and 1999, all of them going straight…

Saturn’s magnetic field does not form a balanced, symmetrical bubble like Earth’s. Instead, it is noticeably uneven, according to new research involving scientists from University College London (UCL). The study…

April 4, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Where is Artemis II now? NASA mission is now closer to moon than Earth The third day of the…

April 5, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Where is Artemis II? NASA astronauts near the moon for first time in more than 50 years Day four…

Aging takes a serious toll on the hippocampus, the part of the brain that plays a central role in learning and memory. Scientists at UC San Francisco have now pinpointed…

April 5, 2026 5 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm How Artemis II is beaming back stunning video from the moon A new laser system aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft…