The artificial intelligence buildout has become one of the most capital intensive projects in modern history, and the strain is now visible far beyond Silicon Valley. A $700 billion wave of investment ...

From the screenwriter of “Jurassic Park,” the new sci-fi thriller “Cold Storage” sees Liam Neeson, Joe Keery, and Georgina Campbell battling a parasitic fungus that escapes its cold vault.

Harnessing the power of the sun holds the promise of providing future societies with energy abundance. To make this a reality, fusion researchers need to address many technological challenges. For ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

There's a reason why blacksmiths fire metals before hammering them. Heat always softens metal, making it more malleable and easier to reshape. Or does it? In a surprising new study, Northwestern ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

Scientists say an ultra-powerful neutrino once thought impossible may be explained by an exotic black hole model involving a so-called “dark charge.” ...

A study has become the first in the world to unravel the immediate effects of a high-fat diet on our gut health. A study led by researchers from WEHI (Melbourne, Australia) has become the first in the ...

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...

I was in the midst of a spunky debate with nekuda CEO Ayal Karmi on agentic commerce and LLM autonomy. But then big changes hit: OpenAI and Stripe issued their ACP protocol, and now Google is out with ...