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Science & Tech
Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?
If an asteroid hadn't killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.
After drastic cuts to the NIH, the FDA, the NSF, and the DOE, NASA science faces down its smallest budget ever. All of society will suffer.
Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.
From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.
Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.