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.

Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
consciousness
A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.
solar car
Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.
From ibuprofen to fentanyl, it’s about meeting the pain where it’s at.
science and religion
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
John Templeton Foundation
mosquitoes
The good news is that it can be countered with acne medication.
dinosaurs
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make "beams" out of them?
A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
human evolution
Fossils of Australopithecus in a South African cave are one million years older than previously thought. This challenges the consensus that humans first evolved in East Africa.
simulation hypothesis
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
augmented reality
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
LHC insides
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
Sick of remembering a random string of letters, numbers, and special characters?
dog cancer vaccine
A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.
airships
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
Amazon river
The architecture and infrastructure found may well have required the greatest amount of skilled labor of any construction from the same time period in the entire continent. 
longest gravitational waves
LIGO can detect the inspirals and mergers of the lowest-mass black holes, but not the biggest ones. Here's how pulsars can help.