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.

Illustration of a woman with cybernetic enhancements playing video games with her mind, surrounded by various futuristic interface elements.
Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in "Elden Ring" and beyond.
A man holding a transparent rectangular object up to his eyes, reminiscent of the analytical gaze of Robert and Frank Oppenheimer.
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
Man sitting on a chair on stage during a Frans de Waal event.
His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
MACS J0717 galaxy cluster dark matter
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here's what they really mean.
Historical map illustration depicting a planned city layout with a circular central area and radiating streets.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
Bullet Cluster separation mass gravity x-ray lensing
NASA's only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
An abstract digital collage inspired by alien abduction stories, with a monochrome vinyl record at the center surrounded by colorful, glitch-like textures and shapes.
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
quantum gravity
Physicists just can't leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.
An illustration of a hand with mechanical fingers and wires, symbolizing the inception of dreams in the integration of technology with the human body.
One MIT-trained poet spent nine months trying to find out.
Hands sifting through a collection of black and white photographs against an abstract artistic backdrop, each image reminiscent of treatments for Alzheimer's.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer's breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Phases of a partial lunar eclipse progression against a dark sky during the penumbral eclipse.
The least exciting of all eclipses, a penumbral lunar eclipse, foreshadows the spectacular show that April 8th's total eclipse will bring.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
A tailless human from a rope.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.
anitmatter annihilation
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
black hole hit Earth
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
A woman, channeling her best ai humor, is holding a microphone in front of a purple background.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
A close up of a fork, endorsed by a Harvard astronomer.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
An image of a dead galaxy with a square in the middle taken by JWST.
Given enough time, all galaxies will expel their star-forming material and wind up dead. Is this the earliest one, or is it just asleep?