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Pacific Fusion just broke ground on a massive $1 billion research and manufacturing campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The end goal is to build a facility that pulls off two major…

Youth isn’t enough to protect your heart. Last year, researchers examining a cohort of young adults in the US made an “ominous” observation. When they imaged and measured the carotid…

A huge flood, thought to be triggered when a large chunk of ice broke off a high mountain glacier, has swept through settlements in Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region…

An international team led by the University of Bern has found evidence that a single asteroid collision may have dramatically reshaped Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons. By combining…

While there’s simply no dethroning The Lord of the Rings in terms of its impact on the fantasy genre and pop culture at large, the last decade-and-a-half has solidified George…

One of the most enduring mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease is why women are more likely to develop it and other forms of dementia than men. Some scientists suspect part of…

Severe stress during childhood can increase a person’s vulnerability to anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders when new challenges arise later in life. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine…

A striking red aurora may be visible to some skywatchers alongside tomorrow night’s blood-red partial lunar eclipse, astronomers say. The full moon is expected to slide into Earth’s shadow tomorrow…

American startup Pacific Fusion has begun construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and research site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Engineers at the site plan to test a new type of…

Scientists know so little about the most dominant force in the cosmos that they refer to it with a catch-all placeholder name: dark energy. This is the stubbornly mysterious something…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now one major step closer to liftoff. On Aug. 21, teams enclosed the observatory inside the protective fairing of its SpaceX Falcon Heavy…

SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 26), in a predawn liftoff from California’s central coast. The spacecraft rode atop a Falcon 9 rocket,…

What we experience when making a decision may be very different from what actually happens inside the brain, according to Indiana University Professor Tom James. For decades, both scientific theories…

After decades confined largely to laboratories, nuclear fusion is beginning to attract the kind of money and industrial planning normally reserved for technologies expected to make it onto the grid….

Most weight-loss drugs work largely by reducing appetite and food intake. But an experimental compound appears to work differently: In mice, it helps the body use more of the energy…

The Trump administration is weighing changes to the government’s recommended vaccine schedules that experts say would, if adopted, have far-reaching consequences for public health. Last week the Department of Health…

It’s rare for a remake of a genre film to be better than the original, but a second remake that goes toe-to-toe with both its predecessors is rarer still. Abel…

Gravity is best known as the force that pulls objects toward Earth, but its role extends far beyond falling apples. Across the universe, gravity acts as an invisible framework that…

Hig (Jacob Elordi) has a routine. He fuels up his rickety vintage airplane, flies into the abandoned city of Erie, Colorado, and restocks. He picks up more fuel from the…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is ready to expand its horizons beyond its Starbase in South Texas. On Tuesday the company announced it will build a spaceport in Louisiana dedicated to launching…

The artificial intelligence boom is supercharging the development of next-gen nuclear energy technology. Big Tech and private equity are catalyzing the research and development of cutting-edge approaches to round-the-clock clean…

Most of the brain’s roughly 100 billion neurons are produced before birth. However, the small number of new neurons that continue to form in the adult hippocampus may play an…

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. As a teenager, I spent…

It’s been strange watching Marvel move heaven and earth to recreate the magic of Avengers: Endgame. The studio’s Multiverse Saga was supposed to deliver a follow-up worthy of similar hype,…

NASA scientists say some microbes carried into space by human explorers may be able to survive in sheltered, shadowed areas near the Moon’s South Pole. The findings, published on Aug….

Fusion energy facility breaks ground in Albuquerque Pacific Fusion will break ground on its first facility here in New Mexico. Company officials said it will bring fusion energy to the…

Even though both of the respective Big Two companies in comic books have been around for almost 100 years at this point, the mantles of their biggest superheroes don’t really…

The World Humanoid Robot Games is back for a second year, and the bots are just as unsettling and impressive as they are ridiculous and unwieldy. On the first day…

Older adults who received a shingles vaccine after entering a skilled nursing facility were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the following four years, according to a new…