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NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is back in operation aboard the International Space Station, giving researchers a powerful new way to investigate the fundamental nature of matter and advance the…

MedTechInvestment Astral Systems – a deep-tech firm pioneering a new type of nuclear fusion technology – has secured £23 million in the first close of a Series A investment led…

We all know getting a good night’s sleep is vital to the healthy functioning of our bodies, but the importance of sleep goes much further than you might realize. According…

Tick season is in full swing, and unfortunately for us humans, these parasites are having a banner year. Across the U.S., weekly rates of emergency room visits for tick bites…

The 1960s are basically the beginning of TV science fiction as we know it. Yes, the 1950s gave us sci-fi anthology shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits,…

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that’s delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Physicists Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein…

Scientists with the SETI Institute have completed a search for possible technological signals coming from 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. Using the Allen…

General Atomics has received a $20 million California Competes Tax Credit to advance the development of a Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF). The American energy and defense corporation claims this…

Fans don’t always cool you down Scott Barbour/Getty Images With Europe in the grip of a mega heatwave and deaths already being reported, staying cool isn’t just about comfort –…

Learning a new language or recovering the ability to speak may rely less on the brain’s movement centers than scientists once believed. New research suggests that regions involved in processing…

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those…

Diet and health are closely related, but the details can be fuzzy, with so many variables at play. The more clarity scientists can get, the more control we can take…

Supply chain spending by the fusion industry increased by 24% in 2025, according to The Fusion Industry Supply Chain 2026, the annual report from the Fusion Industry Association (FIA), published…

More than 4.5 billion years ago, a huge world, potentially as large as the moon or even Mars, traveled around the young Sun before a violent collision shattered it into…

Water microdroplets are the latest addition to the skeletal editing toolbox. Powered by nothing more than a fine spray of water, researchers in India achieved a complex ring rearrangement with…

A man and a woman with a rare and devastating autoimmune disease have been in remission for more than 15 years after receiving a stem-cell transplant. The positive results, which…

WASHINGTON — NASA’s safety advisers say that while the agency and Boeing continue to make progress in addressing problems with the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle, it could be up…

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–General Atomics (GA) announced today it has been awarded a $20 million California Competes Tax Credit from the state of California through the Governor’s Office of Business and…

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s makeover was supposed to inspire patriotism, but chunks of material peeling off the pool’s surface have instead garnered more puzzlement and speculation. President Donald Trump…

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The third episode of The Vampire Lestat is kind of — well… a mess. But a lot of that is by design, like the obnoxious hookup between the Vampire Gabriella…

The latest interstellar visitor to be discovered in our solar system was born somewhere in the universe that was nothing like our home and, according to a new study, a…

For months, Edward (Ed) Waldner knew something wasn’t right. At 55 years old, he felt constantly drained, no matter how much or how little he had done during the day….

As we scour and scorch the Earth for deeper wells of energy, investors and government agencies are pouring billions into nuclear fusion research. The hope is that fusion may ultimately…

The permanent loss of amputated digits and limbs is the cost of being human. While worms, amphibians, fish and echinoderms all contain species capable of regenerating body parts, few mammals…

Scientists have gained new insight into the dramatic event that created the Moon’s largest and oldest known impact crater, a discovery that could help future Artemis astronauts investigate some of…

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions. In March NASA unveiled SkyFall,…

The Fast & Furious movies as we know them today take place in another reality, one that looks similar to our own but is unencumbered by such petty concerns as…

K-Moonshot nuclear fusion PD Yang Hyung-yeol, Head of the Innovative Fusion Reactor Design Division at the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy. Photo by reporter Moon Hye-won, moony@donga.com [Editor’s note] Artificial…