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 group of people stands and plays cricket in an urban park at dusk, with city buildings, trees, and illuminated streetlights in the background.
The ozone hole was going to destroy life as we know it, but an unprecedented global effort fixed the problem.
Three illustrated rats in different colors stand upright together, surrounded by sketches and diagrams of rats, fencing patterns, and hints of rat survival strategies in the background.
Cognitive flexibility, opportunistic survival, and social cooperation have allowed rats to thrive in conditions that wipe out other species.
Futuristic Mars habitat with transparent walls, showing people tending to green plants and fungi inside. Astronauts and rovers are visible on the red, rocky Martian surface outside.
Instead of hauling heavy building materials across space, future astronauts may grow fungal shelters from spores, waste, and local regolith.
Illustration of a dumpster filled with discarded electronics, cables, and a cracked laptop—clear evidence of planned obsolescence—with computer components, trash bags, wires spilling out, and a detached eyeball above.
A broken laptop hinge revealed a broader shift in how modern products are designed, sold, and owned
A pixelated silhouette of a leaping cheetah, inspired by d/acc aesthetics, appears to disintegrate into square particles against a blue grid background.
AI is unlocking unprecedented capabilities — and exposing new vulnerabilities just as quickly.
Digital illustration showing a large sphere with red dots and data labels, referencing kessler syndrome, accompanied by close-up insets and smaller circular and linear patterns on the right side.
We’ve populated low-Earth orbit with satellites in record time — now we have to figure out how to keep it safe.
Book cover of "True Color" by Kory Stamper, featuring illustrations of twelve colored book spines—echoing the era of the dye famine—arranged in a grid on a beige background.
When America lost access to German dyes, the crisis revealed a startling truth: color was chemical, tactical, and essential to warfare.
logarithmic history of universe
In a 13.8 billion year old Universe, a few seconds hardly seems like it matters. But these minuscule changes sure do add up over time.
Two peculiar galaxies collide in deep space, forming bright clusters and swirling dust clouds—a striking scene that reveals the beauty and violence of the cosmos against a dark background.
Most massive galaxies are spiral or elliptical shaped. But peculiar galaxies showcase the beautiful violence that helps explain our cosmos.
The book cover of "How Flowers Made Our World" by David George Haskell features a large pink orchid, lush nature scenery, and hints at the evolutionary history of flowers, with text in white and yellow on a dark background.
Once land plants, seagrasses staged one of evolution’s boldest reversals — returning to the ocean and reinventing their biology to thrive beneath the waves.
Illustration of multiple spiral galaxies and stars being pulled toward a central black hole in deep space, with blue and purple light streaks tracing the motion along a dark energy curve that shapes the universe.
Early on, the Universe needed near-perfect flatness, or atoms, stars, and galaxies couldn't form. What happens once dark energy takes over?
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The image you're seeing isn't a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren't hole-like at all.
A round, abstract blue structure with numerous flowing, curly strands extends outward against a solid black background, evoking the dynamic intelligence of BrainMaxxing AI.
While LooksMaxxing often headlines the news, the idea of BrainMaxxing deserves real attention. Growing your mind never goes out of style.
A black silhouette of an astronaut is suspended upside down by a cord against a solid red background.
Andy Weir’s novel blends humor, scientific rigor, and human ingenuity to make science fiction feel believable and thrilling.
We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: general relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don't work together.
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
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When what we predict and what we measure don't add up, that's a sign there's something new to learn. Could it be a new fundamental force?
Standard Model particles symmetry
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
Book cover of "Emergence" by David Sussillo, featuring a blue background with fish and circuit patterns, and a subtitle about boyhood, computation, and the mysteries of mind.
In this preview, the Stanford professor muses on how emergence, arriving at complex patterns from simple parts, explains AI, brains, and life itself.
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In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?