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.

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.
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.
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
brain zapping
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.