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 spiral galaxy with a luminous core, surrounded by swirling arms and smaller galaxies, forms a mesmerizing bullseye ring galaxy, set against a backdrop of stars in space.
Ring galaxies are rare, but we think we know how they form. A new, early-stage version, the Bullseye galaxy, provides a new testing ground.
A collection of differently colored skull replicas arranged in three rows on a black background.
New research challenges old assumptions about the evolution of the human brain.
Image of Pluto and its moon Charon in space. Pluto shows distinct surface features with areas of varying colors, while Charon appears smaller with a darker, smoother surface.
Here in our Solar System, terrestrial bodies get moons from gravitational capture or collisions. The Pluto-Charon system? It was both.
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Only 5% of the Universe is made of normal "stuff" like we are. Could there be dark matter or dark energy life, or even aliens, out there?
In the store aisle brimming with products, a person examines the label of a purple bottle, curious about the latest scienceploitation claims that promise groundbreaking benefits.
Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.
A silhouette of a head brimming with green grass and tiny flowers forms a brain-like shape, embodying sentience against a yellow textured background.
Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? Philosopher Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds.
Diagram illustrating how small fundamental particles are, showing scaling sizes from macroscopic matter to quarks. It details crystal, atom, atomic nucleus, and nucleon sizes in meters, ranging from 10^-9 m to
When we divide matter into its fundamental, indivisible components, are those particles truly point-like, or is there a finite minimum size?