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.

Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
A person stands on an abstract surface, casting a large question mark-shaped shadow surrounded by vibrant orange, blue, and purple hues.
4mins
Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
cosmic inflation
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Albert Einstein played a mean violin.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.
Illustration of a volcanic eruption with thick clouds of smoke, ash, and flowing lava rising from the volcano’s crater.
6mins
Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
John Templeton Foundation
fentanyl vaccine
In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.
31mins
Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
crispr cancer therapy
This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.
wormholes
Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn't even the worst-case scenario.