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Science & Tech
Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
Will nature or nurture win out?
In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?
Data from the Zhurong rover suggests the Red Planet was wet more recently than we thought.
The site will be the first working example of a geological disposal facility.
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football…
Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
Understanding these links could bring us closer to a cure.
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
"A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny." Does that mean anything to you?
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned "Frankenstein." But we still grapple with the same questions.
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
John Templeton Foundation
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.