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.

Saturn and Saturn's rings JWST
While Saturn and its moons all appear faint and cloudy to JWST, Saturn's rings are the star of the show. Here's the big scientific reason.
a group of rocks with blue light coming from them.
Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.
a building with a sign that says lilly.
Retatrutide, Eli Lilly's innovative "triple g" drug, is setting new standards in the fight against obesity.
a drawing of two ichthyosaurs in the water.
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
An image showcasing a quantum biology-inspired green, flower-like structure adorned with vibrant red dots.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies. 
two hands reaching for each other on a black background.
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Age expert Dr. Morgan Levine explains why living to 100 is the wrong goal.
A map showing the Columbian Exchange.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
a stone wheel with a hole in it.
They had the technology. So why didn't they use it?
A pi symbol is shown on a white background representing real mathematical concepts.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
a black pug looking at a pie on a table.
Neuroscientists think a cluster of cells in the brain that stimulate appetite could be a target for eating disorder therapies.
a blue and white porcelain frame with a picture of a piece of wood.
Due to export controls from China, the Europeans had to invent their own forms of porcelain. One type involves dead cows.
An old illustration connecting science and faith, depicting the map of the heavens.
We should acknowledge that there are faith-based myths running deep in science's canon.
A golden age robotics-inspired drawing of a human body on paper.
In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.
faraday set stage for relativity
Michael Faraday's 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery of relativity. Einstein admitted it himself.
a red planet with stars in the background.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
big bang mirage
A cute mathematical trick can "rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding. But can that "trick" survive all our cosmic tests?
a black and white dog with a red background.
Genetic profiles of many dog breeds appear as if siblings mated.
an artist's rendering of a black hole in the sky.
In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes of light.
blue marble not 24 hours apollo 17
As the Earth spins and wobbles on its axis and revolves elliptically around the Sun, each day changes from the last. "24 hours" isn't right.