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Simple, reliable tests to identify cognitive decline earlier in life and track it over time can make a real difference to treatment and support. New research shows the potential for…

Add Us On Google – Add SciAm The last 12 months in the U.S. were the hottest on record. March was a scorching 9.35 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the 20th-century…

Two large gold deposits discovered in China may hold a collective mass of over 2,000 metric tons (2,200 US tons) of the precious material – the largest ever found within…

For decades, nuclear energy was viewed by many countries as a controversial and declining industry. Major disasters such as Chernobyl disaster and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster triggered public fear, political…

May 19, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Summerlike heat is breaking records in the East. Here’s why A Bermuda High parked over the western Atlantic is…

WASHINGTON — The acting director of the Space Development Agency, Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo, has been appointed to a dual role overseeing both the agency and a new U.S. Space Force…

An AI-powered monitoring system could save the lives of gray whales that are increasingly taking a deadly detour into California’s heavily trafficked San Francisco Bay. The new technology combines round-the-clock…

Three mathematicians just proved a famous 30-year-old conjecture in geometry, with only a tiny assist from AI. The conjecture says that even within enormous, scattered and chaotic assemblages of points…

nuclear1 ©Shutterstock The company says prototype development, regulatory progress and defense sector interest are supporting its push toward commercial fusion energy deployment. Key Investor Takeaways American Fusion (USOTC:AMFN) released a…

There are a few things that immediately come to mind when one thinks of The Mandalorian: Pedro Pascal’s titular bounty hunter darkening a doorway before all hell breaks loose; dusty,…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could head into space sooner than expected, with NASA now targeting a launch as early as September 2026. The updated timeline moves the mission…

May 19, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Female beast hunters battled leopards in ancient Rome Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical…

Climate change is pushing rice-growing regions into temperatures beyond those at which rice has been cultivated in the past 9,000 years of human history, new research finds. The study suggests…

A new cohort of technicians has graduated from the U.S. Department of Energy‘s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) apprenticeship program, the first registered apprenticeship program in the nation in…

Dark matter is believed to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet scientists still cannot observe it directly. Unlike ordinary matter, dark matter does not interact with…

After decades of stigma, researchers are studying cannabis and its compounds like never before. As regulations and restrictions ease in many parts of the world, including the US, this controversial…

Add Us On Google – Add SciAm Hidden copy of the oldest known poem in the English language leaves researchers ‘speechless’ Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking…

Plasma confinement refers to the containment of a plasma by various forces at the extreme conditions necessary for fusion. These conditions exist naturally in stars, where they are sustained by…

The ongoing hantavirus outbreak carries disturbing echoes of the early days of COVID: people falling ill on a cruise ship from a relatively unknown pathogen, with no validated test available…

May 18, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm U.S. bans travel from three African countries as Ebola outbreak spreads At least six Americans are believed to have…

For more than two centuries, scientists have tried to determine one of the most important numbers in physics: the universal gravitational constant, known as “big G.” It defines the strength…

May 18, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The world is more at risk of a pandemic now than before COVID, experts say. This is why As…

A team of archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that a site in a remote corner of the Mexican jungle may be the long-lost Maya city of Sac Balam, which served…

A US delegation is in India to explore nuclear energy cooperation. India has opened its nuclear sector to private companies. Washington: A delegation of senior executives from the American nuclear…

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has long puzzled scientists: Why are humans so overwhelmingly right-handed? Around 90% of people across cultures prefer using their right hand, a…

No one did revenge quite like Vincent Price. Driven to attempt suicide by merciless critics in Theatre of Blood (1973), his actor protagonist resurfaces and murders them by recreating elaborate…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. First, let’s check in on the hantavirus situation. Tanya…

Few concepts in physics are as familiar, or as puzzling, as time itself. Einstein’s theory of relativity showed that time is not fixed or universal. Instead, it changes depending on…

KOUROU, French Guiana — China’s Zenk Space has secured 180 million yuan ahead of the planned June debut of its Zhihang-1 kerolox rocket, the company’s first orbital launch attempt. Zenk…