Science

No one expected Spider-Man: Brand New Day to flop — its box office projections were set incredibly high for a reason — but the speed at which it surpassed those…

Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet yet, a world less than 1 million years old that is still surrounded by the gas and dust from which it formed. The…

Stranger Things began as a sci-fi adventure the whole family could watch. But after five seasons and 10 years, it morphed into an small-screen epic about metaphysics, secret military operations,…

Spill your piggy bank on the table and try to lay out as many quarters as you can. Quarters must lie flat; they can touch at their edges as long…

UK Fusion Energy Ltd (UKFE), the body charged with delivering Britain’s prototype fusion power plant, has become a Tier 1 member of the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). In doing so,…

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified previously unknown lymph node-like immune structures in the skull bone marrow of mice. The findings suggest these nearby…

Scientists have identified two simple body measurements that together are linked to nearly double the risk of death. Neither one is BMI. Today, body mass index (BMI) is the go-to…

A 600-year-old book that once belonged to a personal attendant of King Henry VIII is helping to reveal the shifting allegiances and religious ferment that captured the Tudor court, shaping…

Scientists have long debated where the raw material that formed Earth originally came from. Although our planet sits in the inner Solar System, many researchers have proposed that 6-40 percent…

A surprising link between oral health and the brain is growing stronger by the year. In a long-term study in Japan, bleeding and receding gums were linked to a substantially…

Engineers at compact fusion company nT-Tao have brought a 50-megawatt pulsed-power subsystem into active service. The hardware delivers high-energy bursts to the company’s C3 prototype, a machine designed to test…

I’m looking at a box of faces. That sounds a little creepy, but it is a little creepy looking at the box of carefully arranged miniature resin masks that LAIKA…

Scientists have reconstructed short videos using only brain activity recorded from mice, effectively allowing researchers to recreate what the animals were seeing. The study, led by researchers at University College…

Humans are living longer and longer. Now Japan has broken a new record for longevity: more than 100,000 people in the country are centenarians—some 107,677 of them are at least…

Scientists have puzzled for years over why Venus, despite being similar to Earth in size, mass, and overall structure, has no moon. New research from UC Riverside suggests a striking…

What is it exactly that has made Resident Evil the premiere survival horror franchise a whole 30 years after the original game was released? Is it the convoluted lore revolving…

Photo: Official WeChat account of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) The China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has extended an invitation to the global fusion community to deepen cooperation on fusion…

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer—because it is so hard to detect, cases are typically caught in the late stages of the disease. A person can…

When we look at the night sky, darkness seems to fill the spaces between the stars. But what if some of the most powerful objects in nearby galaxies are hiding…

Rachel Feltman: Hey listeners, it’s Rachel. Today’s episode is something a little different. We’re sharing an episode of Vox’s podcast Unexplainable. In it, I chat with host Noam Hassenfeld about…

In the unexplored expanses deep below the ocean waves, life finds many ways to thrive. Sometimes that means evolving to metabolize volcanic chemistry instead of sunlight. Sometimes it’s glowing in…

Between May and August 2025, the ITER Organization declared a “summer of substantial progress” on its international fusion project, pointing to a string of milestones. Six of nine sector modules…

A ubiquitous industrial chemical commonly used in food and beverage packaging may quietly mess with the body’s insulin sensitivity when ingested. Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the highest-volume chemicals…

The hole in the Earth’s ozone layer is significantly smaller than it’s been in recent history, but it is still far from fully healed, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s…

The sticky proteins amyloid-beta and tau are hallmark features of Alzheimer’s disease, but they’re not the only contributors to the condition. Another factor implicated in cognitive decline is the chronic…

Researchers have found that the human brain begins undergoing broad changes in the way its genome is regulated starting in midlife. The findings may help explain why age is the…

India’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Gets A Powerful New Boost In Gujarat – Vibes Of India

Calls to slow the development of frontier artificial intelligence, the industry’s most powerful models, have grown much louder in the past week. One idea keeps coming up as a way…

A tough leg day may have an unexpectedly simple boost: the smell of chocolate. According to a new study published in Frontiers in Physiology, exposure to chocolate aromas before and…