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By Allison DeAngelis, Elaine Chen, and Adam FeuersteinJuly 9, 2026 Allison DeAngelis[email protected]Allison covers what hot startups are getting up to, and who’s financing them. She is also co-host o...
Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began.
SpaceX has applied for approval to operate a 100,000-member megaconstellation of next-gen Starlink satellites in Earth orbit. And each of the new spacecraft will weigh about 4,400 pounds.
"Allowing a million orbiting data centers with no environmental review isn’t just irresponsible — it’s reckless."
'We're harkening back to 'Three Days of The Condor,' 'The Parallax View,' and things like that of the '70s.'
New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our h...
Researchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas.
The United States has launched a series of strikes on Iran in response to the Iranian targeting of vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. These are the most severe violations yet of the Memorandum of Unders...
We love telling the story of how horse-and-buggy makers were wiped out by the automobile. It’s a clean, dramatic tale that confirms everything we already believe about disruption, hubris, and the inev...
“I would prefer not to.” Those words, printed in white capital letters on a black T-shirt, are worn by a man surrounded by crates full of books in Zuccotti Park, downtown Manhattan. It is late October...
I woke up at 7 a.m. to a swift, hard knock on my door. Whap. Whap. Whap. I’d been living in my converted Sprinter van for nearly six years, and I knew that a knock usually meant someone — a cop, a ran...
Nuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium.
A new robotic heart can recreate different stages of heart failure, potentially giving researchers a new way to test treatments before they reach patients.
Michigan has been particularly hard hit by the cyclosporiasis outbreak, with 1,251 cases reported — the highest in the state's history.
CDC via AP By Associated PressJuly 9, 2026 NEW YORK — Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest such...
ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.
Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN / AFP via Getty Images By Jason MastJuly 9, 2026 General Assignment Reporter Jason Mast[email protected]Jason is a general assignment reporter, with particular focus on genet...
Three top contenders to run the FDA are under review by the White House
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