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 computer-generated image of a bright celestial object with an accretion disk, possibly representing what the sun looked like when it was born.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
In December 1968, human beings made their first-ever journey to the Moon aboard Apollo 8. Their most important discovery? Planet Earth.
A 3D structural representation of a protein with intertwined helices and strands, depicted in shades of pink and purple, set against a black background.
"By 2040, we hope to see a number of new drugs that have been designed with AI reaching patients."
An image of a blue and white planet in space with starry background and a bright star on the right.
Out beyond Neptune are some fascinating bodies left over from our Solar System's formation. Could one of them truly be spectacular?
A solar image with digital counter displaying "0:MINUS" overlaid against the background of the sun with solar flares.
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
X-ray images of a shoulder and a wrist with highlighted areas in red indicating injuries or inflammation, set against a colorful, abstract background.
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
A female physician wearing a lab coat and glasses examines medical images on a lightboard. The background consists of a green and purple abstract design.
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in humans in 2019. Despite much noise generated by lab leak proponents, the evidence indicates a natural origin.
A composite image shows the sun's path in the sky at different times of the year over a grassy landscape, with three arches of sun positions represented by dots, illustrating the earliest solstice.
On June 20, 2024, the summer solstice occurs at its earliest moment since 1796: when George Washington was President of the USA. Here's why.
Glowing blue digital rendering of a human brain against a black background.
Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.
Abstract artwork featuring multiple human faces, swirling patterns, geometric shapes, and a human silhouette against a beige background, subtly hinting at the enigmatic presence of superintelligent AI.
Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.
Two breathtaking pictures of a galaxy and a star taken by the Hubble telescope, highlighting the beauty and cosmic magnitude that fuels the Hubble tension.
There are two different ways to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, and they don't agree. And no, new measurements don't help.
Two people are tandem skydiving, falling through the air above a landscape of fields, mountains, and coastline under a clear sky.
Is gravity weaker over distances of billions of light-years?
A new all-time record! JWST's discovery of JADES-GS-z14-0 pushes the earliest galaxy ever seen to just 290 million years after the Big Bang.
Person flexing arm muscles with a photo-negative effect applied, overlaid with semi-transparent geometric shapes. Person is facing away, showing arm and shoulder. Background is indistinct.
While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.
Abstract representation of a cosmic event with a burst of particles emanating from a central point, blending astrophysical imagery with geometric designs.
If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you'll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn't the Big Bang become one?
A deep space image showing numerous galaxies of different shapes and sizes scattered across a dark background, with many stars and cosmic objects, including the ancient Methuselah star, also visible throughout.
The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?
A sailboat is silhouetted against a vibrant sunset over a calm sea, with other boats and their reflections visible in the background. The sky and water have a golden hue.
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
A robotic hand and a human hand reach towards each other against a dark background.
The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value. 
Ancient stone structure with stairs under a blue sky with scattered clouds, surrounded by vegetation.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.