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 pulsar sort of consumes the thing that recycled it, just as the spider eats its mate.”
biological age
Your old-fashioned chronological age is just a number. Your biological age can tell you how healthy you really are.
big crunch
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here's why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn't how it will end.
Now they're pointing the way to future battery technologies.
atom
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
But does Amazon know when you're tired or hungry?
Voyager 1
In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?
Credit: CNSA
Data from the Zhurong rover suggests the Red Planet was wet more recently than we thought.
The site will be the first working example of a geological disposal facility.
crystallization
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
mars sound
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
black hole spacetime
Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?
population latitude
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
Understanding these links could bring us closer to a cure.
advanced civilization
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
blue sky
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.