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.

Americans on average consumed about 58 pounds of beef and veal in 2019 – compared with a global average of 14 pounds.
The key problem with the dark matter hypothesis is that nobody knows what form dark matter might take.
Video cameras on city streets are only the most visible way your movements can be tracked.
Research shows how temperature can be used to manipulate circadian rhythms.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
dark matter
There's an extra source of massive "stuff" in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?
If you have an old TV set with the "rabbit ear" antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.  
5000 exoplanets
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
COVID nasal spray
It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.
As technology advances, the use of laser weapons in space becomes more likely.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
graphyne
A two-dimensional material made entirely of carbon called graphene won the Nobel Prize in 2010. Graphyne might be even better.
pulse light quantum tunnel barrier
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?