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.

Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
a man playing a violin in front of a piano.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
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In Einstein's relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won't.
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Humanity's newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.