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 technician in a cleanroom suit works by a large cylindrical piece of equipment in a high-tech laboratory setting with industrial tools and machinery.
A recent experiment challenges the leading dark matter theory and hints at new directions for uncovering one of the Universe's biggest mysteries.
Satellite image showing a dense cloud mass over the southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico, with an inset graph from NOAA depicting hurricane frequency peaking around mid-August to late September, a trend exacerbated by global warming.
The laws of physics aren't changing. But the Earth's conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.
atom illustration
Most fundamental constants could be a little larger or smaller, and our Universe would still be similar. But not the mass of the electron.
Image of Mimas, one of Saturn's moons, partially illuminated. The large Herschel crater is prominently visible on the right side of the moon's surface.
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.
A collage features a tennis player and a basketball player against a backdrop of financial charts, graphs, and mathematical equations on a checkered pattern.
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
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.
In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.
A black-and-white portrait of a man with curly hair, glasses, and a beard is centered against a green and blue background with abstract DNA helix patterns, representing leadership essentials.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.