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.

Never stop looking at the skies in wonder.
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
Geminids
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
It's spooky, and it's happening all around us. And inside us.
globular cluster terzan 5
2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble's still going after 32 years. Here's the amazing proof!
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe, explained by physicist Sean Carroll.
crispr mice
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island's pest population go extinct.
Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
top science stories 2022
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
liver drug covid
It should work for future variants, too.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.