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.

Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.
Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.
ai drone meteorite
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
The far infrared reveals both the coldest and hottest gas in the Universe, and can teach us what no other wavelength range can.
ants cancer
The insects were just as accurate as trained dogs, although not as cuddly.
Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?
The ranking is encouragingly diverse, with the top 10 featuring representation from five regions.
fairy wrasse
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
planets march 2022
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
The good news is that scientists have found a new way to treat eczema. The bad news is that it's drinkable dust mite extract.
Close up of an ant on the ground.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
endurance
A famous explorer's doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
An expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics.
edible electronics
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
supermountains
Gigantic ranges called "supermountains" formed twice in Earth's history, and they may have had a profound influence on evolutionary history.
existence of God
Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?