Researchers reviewed existing evidence on whether mouthwash with garlic extract could be a viable alternative for the current golden standard.

Science Corporation, founded by Neuralink’s first president, Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods.

These science-themed gifts mix brains and fun.

There's a real plan here, of sorts.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto's claim that Roundup herbicide and its active…

Zillow has stopped publishing climate risk ratings for sales listings that show the likelihood of properties being impacted by extreme weather, The New York Times reports. The feature introduced by the real estate listings site last year used data from risk-m…

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming film Disclosure Day is here, and it will leave you with more questions than answers about what exactly is going on. There is no denying that something strange is happening to a Kansas City newscaster (Emily Bl…

SpaceX says it has lost control of a Starlink satellite that's now falling back to Earth after suffering an anomaly. The sudden loss of communications, drop in altitude, "venting of the propulsion tank," and "release of a small number of trackable low relativ…

On Monday, Amazon announced Leo Ultra, the first antenna for its satellite internet service, which is launching in a private preview ahead of a commercial rollout sometime next year. Leo Ultra is made for “business and government customers,” unlike the other …

The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman's appointment as the head of NASA on Wednesday, a decision that comes just months after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination before picking him yet again in November, as reported earlier by CNBC. Isaacman, the found…

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to see it.

The tussle between the two alternative data leaders was the talk of the industry.

President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 Thursday with measures that further the bipartisan push for next-generation nuclear power plants. The Trump administration has embraced the technology as a new energy so…

Campbell’s is insisting that its soups aren’t made with 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or bioengineered meat. The food giant issued the explanation on its website after leaked audio allegedly captured Campbell’s vice president of information technolog…

A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters of one of the roughly 9,000 Starlink satellites currently operating in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is laying the blame on the satellite op…

Trump Media, the company that runs social network Truth Social, is pivoting to nuclear fusion. It has announced a merger with California-based fusion power company TAE Technologies, and plans to start construction on a fusion power plant in 2026. Trump Media …

If you are a schoolkid of the right age, you can’t wait to lose a baby tooth. In many cultures, there is a ritual surrounding it, like the tooth fairy, a mouse who trades your tooth for a gif…

UK researchers will get a chance to develop applications for the tech giant's quantum processor.

Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is "shooting itself in the foot" with its visa system for researchers.

A key TikTok e-commerce product leader stepped away in a restructuring that impacted the company's global product and data science teams.

A grandmother from New Orleans stays healthy at 79 with daily walking, social clubs, and two workouts a day. Science says she has the right idea.

Researchers warn that rapid advances in neuroscience, pharmacology, and AI are bringing "brain weapons" out of science fiction and into real-world plausibility. They argue current arms treaties don't adequately cover these emerging tools and call for a new, p…

Curiosity Stream, the decade-old science documentary streaming service founded by Discovery Channel's John Hendricks, expects its AI licensing business to generate more revenue than its 23 million subscribers by 2027 -- possibly earlier. The company's Q3 2025…

Elite computer science degrees are no longer a guaranteed on-ramp to tech jobs, as AI-driven coding tools slash demand for entry-level engineers and concentrate hiring around a small pool of already "elite" or AI-savvy developers. The Los Angeles Times report…

One of the hottest Stanford CS courses this semester embraces rather than bans AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude.

Apple's streaming service got a new name this year - it dropped the "plus" and is now just Apple TV - but its actual programming didn't change all that much. And that's good news for sci-fi fans, as the service continued to cement itself as the preeminent des…

The lifeblood of Silicon Valley — advanced microchips — pumps from a science park on Taiwan's west coast, mostly from TSMC, the world's biggest chipmaker. But now the company is looking abroad for places to grow.

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"It's a wrap … Don't forget to buy an 'i survived Belém' shirt," reads the opening line of an email I got Saturday, the final day of highly anticipated United Nations climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil. The email was sent from Shravya Jain-Conti, the US cl…

Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.

A Harvard neurologist shares how many steps you should aim for each day for a healthy brain to prevent memory loss and cognitive decline.

At 44, Dr. Christine Hall wants her skin to look radiant, but she also thinks about what she can do to help it age healthily.

During this phase, matter exists in a weird, precarious limbo that ultimately determines what it becomes.

“Against the enormity of such a wild region, this is an amazing story of the little float that could.”

The Ushbati figurines were meant to work for the dead.

The program will also hire experienced technologists directly from the private sector

“The U.S. taxpayers have a right to this data.”

Play this crossword inspired by the January 2026 issue of Scientific American.

An Atlantic hurricane season defined by political and climate disasters comes to a close on November 30th. It kicked off after DOGE's flurry of slashes to federal agencies. Employees who stayed on endured a tumultuous year, to say the least, at the National W…

AI created as much carbon pollution this year as New York City and guzzled up as much H20 as people consume globally in water bottles, according to new estimates. The study paints what's likely a pretty conservative picture of AI's environmental impact since …

A startup developing technologies to harness solar power in space is throwing its hat in with big tech companies attempting to build out data centers that orbit Earth. The US-based company, Aetherflux, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch its first da…

President Trump continues to shake up science. We look at the impact it’s already having.

People were outraged by the president's recent use of this particular expression. Experts in political science and mental health say the term tells quite the...

DeepSeek's founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, has been listed among the top 10 "people who shaped science in 2025" by the British journal Nature, which hailed...

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Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

AI pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton said students who want to become AI researchers need to focus on critical thinking.

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscr…

Look inside a science fiction computer, and you’ll probably see tubes and cubes that emit light. Of course, it’s for effect, but the truth is, people do think light computing may be the…

An hourglass tells you what it is in the name — a glass that you use to measure an hour of time passing by. [EDISON SCIENCE CORNER] has built a digital project that mimics such a thing, with …

The cool part about science is that you can ask questions like what happens if you stick some moss spores on the outside of the International Space Station, and then get funding for answering said …

The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.

Almost four decades after the first HIV treatment, is there finally a ‘functional’ cure?

Cheaper home science.

New evidence shows that early neanderthals made fire 350 thousand years before we thought.

Three decades since the first successful gene therapy, why aren’t we using them more?

On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt

For decades, the idea of checking into a hotel among the stars has been confined to the realm of science fiction, but that is about to change: the world’s...

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fired off a letter on Tuesday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and several major data center developers to investigate the impact they're having on Americans' utility bil…

Understanding a bit of chemistry can transform your baking skills. The post The best chocolate chip cookie recipe, according to science appeared first on Popular Science.

I'm a mother of 2 who works in a research lab. These are the STEM-based toys my kids have played with the most over the years.

The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.

The smartest gifts are often the smartest books.

I recently received a question about a crime analyst looking to break into data science. Figured it would be a good topic for my advice in a blog post. I have written many resources over the years …

If the system holds out long-term, it could significantly boost AI development in China.

The first phase of the Future Circular Collider wouldn't be completed until the 2040s.

New research highlights the unique dangers of the UV radiation provided by tanning beds.

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict.

"There is still an important role for livestock in nature-friendly farming systems.”

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Positron, die kostenlose IDE für Python und R, bildet mit dem Daten-Explorer Data-Science-Workflows ab und verknüpft die Ergebnisse mit Jupyter.

Kent State trustees also approved a new deal with NEOMED to provide campus health services.

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are focusing on for 2026

The U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, jettisoning key climate science projects in the process

The return of measles, weakening vaccines, and the complete destruction of the CDC are just a few of Kennedy's ignoble accomplishments in 2025.

Trump Media - yup, the parent company of Truth Social - is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday, and a bold plan to break gro…

I live near downtown Vancouver. As a local, I recommend shopping on Main Street and visiting Stanley Park, but skip the overrated Gastown Steam Clock.

The Christmas line-up also includes former PM Baroness Theresa May and inventor Sir James Dyson.

Brad Smith said his decision to hook up a webcam to the computer he controls with his mind did not make sense to people at Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company. "Neuralink was really confused with the idea," Smith told The Verge. The decisi…

„Science“ kürt Boom erneuerbarer Energien zum Durchbruch des Jahres 2025. Erstmals lieferten Solar und Wind weltweit mehr Strom als Kohle.

Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday. Some celebrate it as an American tradition. Others look at it as simply an excuse to get together with family to watch some football. And still others just enjoy getting an extra day off from work or try to ignore it al…

If there's one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 - at least at the local level - it was to stop big, energy-hungry data center projects. For communities sick of rising electricity bills and pollution from power plants, data centers have…

The post 14 moving images from the 2025 Nature Photographer of the Year awards appeared first on Popular Science.

A Massachusetts man who was shot and killed in his apartment Monday night has been identified as an MIT physics professor.

A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.

. John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025.  A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But...

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories

“I do stand behind everything in the document.”

WIRED presents an oral history of the greatest talk-back show ever made.

What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question as they face budget uncertainties.

A Vanderbilt physicist has both good and bad news.

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

For plasma in fusion reactors, turbulence might be more than a pesky thing to control, a new study suggests.

The auto industry continues its push into an AI-driven future

This could be the end of the orbiter that studies the Red Planet’s atmosphere and relays communications between NASA and its Mars rovers.

GenAI and LLMs almost got a soft pass to enter the Nebula Awards, but the sci-fi/fantasy writing community shut that down.

When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS). …read more

The advocacy offshoot wants a "uniform national approach."

I can’t make room for a massive, expensive Frame TV, but I have space for an art monitor.