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.

The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off. 
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Black women are 3x more likely to die giving birth. Here’s one plan to fix that.
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
1.9 billion years ago, a star's explosive death created a black hole. Its light just arrived at Earth. But did it set a cosmic record?
herpes cancer
Biotechnology can convert enemy viruses into anti-cancer mercenaries.
metastasis
Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.
8 billion
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
rubble pile
Most asteroids aren't what you think they are.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
quark gluon plasma primordial soup
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.
super-habitable exoplanet
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.  
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.