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.

1hr 33mins
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
crispr mice
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island's pest population go extinct.
Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
top science stories 2022
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
liver drug covid
It should work for future variants, too.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
proton internal structure
Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
a yellow drawing of a man's face with a wave pattern.
A concept known as "wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
A 3D illustration of a typhoon as seen from orbit.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."
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What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.