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 woman performing a high-knee exercise is overlaid on an image of a brain scan, set against a green and black background, highlighting the importance of exercise in the fight against Alzheimer's.
Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?
epsilon eridani comet storm
Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.
View of Earth from space showing a partially illuminated hemisphere with detailed ocean and cloud patterns against a backdrop of stars.
In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.
Image of a galaxy cluster with a purple haze showing dark matter, surrounded by numerous distant stars and galaxies against the dark backdrop of space.
How do normal matter and dark matter separate by so much when galaxy clusters collide? Astronomers find the surprising, unexpected answer.
Digital rendering of multiple human brain models floating against a gray background, highlighting specific brain regions in red.
“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.”
Illustration of radio telescopes detecting propylene oxide molecules in space, against a star-filled galaxy background.
Such discoveries help researchers better understand the development of molecular complexity in space during star formation.
Three Masai men, dressed in traditional attire and adorned with beaded jewelry, gather around a smartphone in an outdoor setting.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?