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.

james webb
The James Webb Space Telescope finally could answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
roaring twenties
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
redshift distance raisin bread
There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe's expansion. They disagree. "Early dark energy" might save us.
metaverse
The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.
A woman doing therapy on her laptop
The use of AI within mental health services could be a game-changer.
supernova X-ray
The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core. It's unlike anything ever seen.
A child showing their drawing to the camera
A professor of educational psychology explains what and what not to do.
Earth move
The Solar System isn't a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here's how we move through space.
isolation experiment
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Fifteen volunteers in France just spent more than a month living in a cave — without any way to tell time — […]
Some stars burn through their fuel as expected, and die of natural causes. But others, instead, get murdered. Here's their story.
space missions
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
MIT rover
A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.
Antarctica
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
depression paradox
Treatments for depression have significantly improved since the 1980s. So why isn't the rate of depression decreasing?
Breakthrough Starshot
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
CERN_ATLAS_Detector The standard model in physics
New technology is helping physicists move forward in the search for the Theory of Everything.
ergodicity
In movies and TV shows, aliens look like pointy-eared humans. Is this realistic? If evolution is predictable, then it very well might be.
hangover cures
After a night of partying and heavy drinking, you might be tempted to Google "hangover cures." Unfortunately, there aren't any.
Standard Model
Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.