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.

Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.  
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
brain zapping
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Cherenkov neutrino radiation
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
connected entangled pair
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.