Underground on Purdue University's campus is the only nuclear reactor of its kind in the U.S. Although used only for research ...

The petition filed in Ozaukee County Circuit Court alleges the DNR's environmental reviews of the Oracle and OpenAI data center were substandard.

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During the August 2026 solar eclipse, scientists will be rushing to gather data on the sun, but even if you aren't a ...

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Canada’s rivers have powered industry, cities and communities for more than a century. The next challenge is to use water ...

The low-cost ocean current energy generator invented by a teenager is getting international attention yet again for its promise of providing clean electricity to distant coastal areas. Hannah Herbst, ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

The Ohio EPA is spending more than $77,000 to help keep drinking water reliable for residents along the U.S. 30 corridor. Those funds will complete four upgrades throughout Richland, Crawford and ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...