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.

With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.
“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”
When you're a genius, how do you make ends meet?
james webb hubble
The James Webb Space Telescope has chosen 5 targets for its first science release. Here's what we know on the eve of JWST's big reveal!
passive cooling
Really simple interventions can greatly reduce indoor temperatures during the summer, particularly in places like the Pacific Northwest.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
consciousness
A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.
solar car
Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.
From ibuprofen to fentanyl, it’s about meeting the pain where it’s at.
science and religion
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
John Templeton Foundation
mosquitoes
The good news is that it can be countered with acne medication.
dinosaurs
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make "beams" out of them?
A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
human evolution
Fossils of Australopithecus in a South African cave are one million years older than previously thought. This challenges the consensus that humans first evolved in East Africa.
simulation hypothesis
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
augmented reality
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
LHC insides
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?