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Here’s what Moderna’s latest mRNA cancer vaccine data actually show
The Moderna-Merck mRNA cancer vaccine helps prevent cancer recurrence and death, the new results show
Posted on 23 October 2026 | 12:55 am
RFK, Jr., adviser Calley Means announces his resignation from the Trump administration
Means’s views on the COVID vaccine, raw milk and fluoride have all been criticized by health care professionals
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 10:00 pm
This implant burns up excess blood sugar with electricity
A new USB-sized device, tested in mice, could help people with type 2 diabetes better manage glucose levels
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 8:00 pm
Attacks against data centers in Europe and the Middle East are raising questions as to how we protect the infrastructure on which our digital lives depend
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 6:45 pm
The inside story behind OpenAI’s million-dollar math proof
AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the world
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 6:12 pm
Astronomers unlock a mystery hidden in van Gogh’s The Starry Night
A misidentified constellation could revise the timeline for Vincent van Gogh’s creation of his iconic painting
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 6:00 pm
New superconducting chip aims to help tame fusion plasma
Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 1:15 pm
Ancient Egypt’s first female king revealed by long-lost royal seals
Ancient Egypt’s first female ruler lived centuries before Nefertiti or Cleopatra
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 12:30 pm
National Science Foundation leader Brian Stone to retire with no clear replacement in sight
President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Stone, James O’Neill, has yet to have a confirmation hearing in the Senate, leaving the future leadership of the NSF unclear
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 9:30 pm
Super Typhoon Champi sets the record for strongest storm of 2026
The cyclone’s winds hit 185 miles per hour—the strongest windspeed of any storm this year
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 6:35 pm
Report pinpoints future exploration sites on the moon
Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the moon? An authoritative new report has suggestions
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 5:30 pm
Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
For the first time, scientists can make quantum measurements on a positron particle
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 5:00 pm
Republican congressional candidate Tom Stalcup on how both parties abuse science for political gain
Scientific American spoke to the candidate for Massachusetts’s fourth congressional district about climate change, misinformation and why, when it comes to health care, some socialism may be required
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 12:00 pm
A Wall Is Also a Road explores alien consciousness, slime mold life-forms and Pompeii
Slime mold aliens explore Pompeii—and humanity—in a new book by Annalee Newitz
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 12:00 pm
See the Orionids meteor shower at its peak this week
The shower’s shooting stars originate from Halley’s Comet
Posted on 20 October 2026 | 11:00 pm