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Garlic Mouth Wash? The Science Says Yes

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

Former Neuralink Exec Launches Organ Preservation Effort

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

Our Favorite Hobby-Friendly Gifts for Science Geeks and Gamers

These science-themed gifts mix brains and fun.

‘Dan Da Dan’ Will Beam Down with Season 3 in 2027

Science Saru will bring 'Dan Da Dan' back to your screens in just under two years with new threats and more romance.

The ‘Genesis Mission’: Here’s What’s in Trump’s Most Grandiose AI Executive Order Yet

There's a real plan here, of sorts.

Science Journal Retracts Study On Safety of Monsanto's Roundup

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 property listings no longer show risk of fires, floods, and storms

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…

Disclosure Day’s first trailer teases close encounters of a different kind

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…

A Starlink satellite seems to have exploded

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…

Amazon’s Starlink competitor is launching with ‘world’s fastest satellite internet antenna’

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 …

Billionaire Jared Isaacman confirmed as new head of NASA

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…

The Invisible Becomes Visible: Scientists May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter

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 trade secrets legal battle between Carlyle-backed Yipit and Jefferies-owned M Science is over

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

Next-generation nuclear reactors could get a boost from the National Defense Authorization Act

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 promises its soups are not made with 3D printed meat

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…

Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week

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 is merging with a nuclear fusion company

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 …

Citizen Science by the Skin of Your Teeth

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…

Google asks UK experts to find uses for its powerful quantum tech

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

Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy

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

TikTok restructured its e-commerce product and data teams amid the busy holiday shopping season

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

A 79-year-old woman shares her 3-step longevity routine — including 11 workouts a week

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.

Mind-Altering 'Brain Weapons' No Longer Only Science Fiction, Say Researchers

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…

Science-Centric Streaming Service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing Firm Now

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…

Stanford Computer Science Grads Find Their Degrees No Longer Guarantee Jobs

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…

The hottest Stanford computer science class isn't banning AI tools — it's embracing them

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

The best shows streaming on Apple TV in 2025

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…

As political winds shift, top chipmaker TSMC looks beyond Taiwan

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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UN climate negotiations burned up and then fizzled out

"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…

Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients

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

Yann LeCun's advice for young students wanting to go into AI

Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said current and prospective CS students need to focus on skills "with a long shelf life."

A doctor in her 40s uses 3 science-backed products to prevent wrinkles. She combines Korean and Western techniques.

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.

Newly Discovered ‘Hybrid’ Phase of Matter Blurs the Line Between Solid and Liquid

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

Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Comes Back With Rare Data

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

This Pharaoh Crashed Another King’s Tomb With His Own Afterlife Workforce

The Ushbati figurines were meant to work for the dead.

Trump Is Building a ‘U.S. Tech Force’ of 1,000+ Early Career Workers

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

America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision

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

Science Crossword: Pointing South

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

The US dodged a bullet this Atlantic hurricane season

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’s water and electricity use soars in 2025

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 …

The scramble to launch data centers into space is heating up

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…

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

Trump Was Slammed For Leveling This 'Disgusting' 3-Word Phrase — And It Might Reveal A Lot

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 Liang Wenfeng makes the cut in top 10 'people who shaped science in 2025'

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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Updates From ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, and More

Plus, Lewis Pullman reflects on filming 'Spaceballs 2'.

'Godfather of AI' says CS degrees 'will remain valuable for quite a long time' — and students should still learn to code

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

Welcome to the wellness surveillance state

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…

Memory at the Speed of Light

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…

LED Hourglass is a Great Learning Project

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 …

Testing the Survivability of Moss in Space

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 …

Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center

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.

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

Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood

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

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

Earthquake Science and Fiction Collide in Tilt

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

The world’s first space hotel is set to launch in 2027

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...

Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs

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…

The best chocolate chip cookie recipe, according to science

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 work in a research lab and have kids under 7. These are the science-based gifts that they've enjoyed most over the years.

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 Trump Administration’s Data Center Push Could Open the Door for New Forever Chemicals

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.

Our Favorite Science Books to Gift This Year

The smartest gifts are often the smartest books.

China Launches 34,175-Mile AI Network That Acts Like One Massive Supercomputer

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

Tech Billionaires Pledge $1 Billion to CERN for Future Circular Collider

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

Tanning Beds Are Giving Us Skin Cancer Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine

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

Trump’s EPA Plans to Raise Threshold for ‘Safe’ Formaldehyde Exposure

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.

New study reveals a major issue with meat that most people aren't aware of: 'The science is actually quite clear'

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

Poem: ‘Large Hadron Collider,’ ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ and ‘Music for the Heat Death of the Universe’

Science in meter and verse

heise+ | Data-Science-Kombi für R, Python und Jupyter

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 eliminates 19 majors. See which degree programs are impacted

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

Science Carries On. Here Are Our Top Topics for 2026

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

Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science Center

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

The Worst Ways RFK Jr. Has Harmed Public Health This Year

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

Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon

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'm a Vancouver local. Here are 4 things tourists should do when they visit — and 3 they should skip.

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.

Cate Blanchett among BBC Radio 4 festive guest editors

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

It doesn’t end at Neuralink

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…

Boom erneuerbarer Energien zum Durchbruch des Jahres gekürt

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

Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning

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…

Officials identify Mass. man shot and killed in his apartment as MIT professor

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

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z

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, 1947-2025

. 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...

Satellite Megaconstellations Are Now Threatening Telescopes in Space

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

Senators Grill NASA Nominee Over Leaked Plan to Slash Science and Privatize Space

“I do stand behind everything in the document.”

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece

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

Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

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

Should You Be Worried About a Tiny Black Hole Hitting Your Body?

A Vanderbilt physicist has both good and bad news.

Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

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.

Plasma Turbulence Is Doing Surprising Things Inside Fusion Reactors

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

VW Closes German Plant for First Time Ever. Plant Will Pivot to AI Research

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

NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft May Actually Be Lost in Space

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

Nebula Awards Yelled at Until They Completely Ban Use of AI by Nominees

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

NASA May Have Lost the MAVEN Mars Orbiter

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

Marc Andreessen-Backed Super-PAC Pours Millions Into Fighting State AI Regulations

The advocacy offshoot wants a "uniform national approach."

Art TVs Are Getting Smaller and I’m Here for It

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

High-Tech ‘Bubble Wrap’ Lets You Hold Fire Without Getting Burned

Once applied to building windows, the thin insulator could save houses a lot of energy in the future.

Report: Starship Debris Came Closer to Airplanes Than SpaceX Admits

A new report by the Wall Street Journal reveals a failed SpaceX Starship test flight endangered three airplanes.