Science & Tech

Science & Tech

Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.

Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
"Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea."
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The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
The central equation of quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation, is different from the equations found in classical physics.
Researchers are looking at neurons required for touch-mediated pain relief.
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It isn't just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.
Researchers have been developing a promising model that can more closely mimic the human body – organ-on-a-chip.
Most globular clusters appear to form their stars all at once, but there are exceptions. JWST just observed how "second formations" happen.
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Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.