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.

a statue of a person sitting in front of flowers.
Modern robotics are creating a kind of cultural paradox, where the best religion is the one that eventually involves no humans at all.
a painting of a man's face and a woman's head.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
a very large spiral shaped object in the sky.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
a woman's head with smoke coming out of it.
The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
a painting of a brain on a white background.
A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.
Geological time drawn as a spiral
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
inflation spawn parallel universes
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which "infinity" wins?
a woman's mouth with letters in the background.
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
a map with a red line on it.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
a blurry image of a person walking down a street.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
a clock that is in the middle of a picture.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
a bottle of beer next to a toilet paper roll.
Beer's flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?
a red and yellow car driving down a street next to a crowd.
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
Hubble view of galaxy containing GRB 221009A BOAT
Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic cosmic events of all. On October 9, 2022, a remarkable one occurred: the brightest ever seen.
a roll of patriotic ribbon on a white surface.
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
a blurry photo of a city street at night.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.
a man holding a microphone in front of a blue background.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.” 
an astronaut contemplates a black hole
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
JWST CEERS 1 hour field
Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.
the interior of a large cathedral with chandeliers.
The cathedral is being explored as never before.