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.

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Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
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The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
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The best evidence for dark matter is astrophysical and indirect. Do new lensing observations point to ultra-light, wave-like dark matter?
How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.
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Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
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Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
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As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.
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Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli's rule, our Universe wouldn't exist.
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Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.
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Data scientists first gained prominence by making us click on ads — now the profession spans a multiverse.
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Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
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How World War II codebreaker Alan Turing invented modern AI.
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Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
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The LHC has a long, productive life ahead of it. An upgraded version, called the “High Luminosity LHC,” will be available in 2028.
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A study shows that the brains of lonely individuals respond in odd ways to visual stimuli, while those of non-lonely people react similarly.
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The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
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Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”