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.

Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
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dog cancer vaccine
A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.
airships
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
Amazon river
The architecture and infrastructure found may well have required the greatest amount of skilled labor of any construction from the same time period in the entire continent. 
longest gravitational waves
LIGO can detect the inspirals and mergers of the lowest-mass black holes, but not the biggest ones. Here's how pulsars can help.
solar geoengineering
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Two ICU physicians offer a new approach to stopping it.
silicon life
On Earth, carbon can form millions of compounds, while silicon is largely stuck inside rocks. But elsewhere, silicon could form the basis of life.
There's a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
human survival
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Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.
time
Modern cosmology conjectures different possible fates for the Universe and thus for the end of time. Details depend on which model is right.
mites
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
The biology behind your office's air conditioning war.
fireworks
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
grenades
Before gunpowder was introduced to the West, medieval Arabs devised grenades using crockery.