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.

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Peaking on the night of August 11/12, up to 100 bright meteors per hour will be visible. Here's how to make the most of it.
A pair of hands appears to be gently tossing a baseball, reminiscent of Moneyball strategy. The image, accented with a yellow glow around the baseball, features a modern, abstract black and white design with an AI-inspired touch.
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.
A collage of four glitchy video stills featuring the same man with various dramatic expressions, overlaid with green and purple digital distortion effects. A play button icon rests in the center, hinting at the lessons of hindsight within.
The rise and fall of Josh Harris — the genius who anticipated the digital revolution just a little too soon.
Two elderly men in glasses smiling. One man wears a white shirt and the other a suit and tie. The background features a blue book cover titled "Business Adventures," symbolizing their connection through timeless business wisdom.
"Business Adventures" by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
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Earth, the only rocky planet with a large, massive satellite, is greatly affected by the Moon. Destroying it would cause 7 major changes.
A woman performing a high-knee exercise is overlaid on an image of a brain scan, set against a green and black background, highlighting the importance of exercise in the fight against Alzheimer's.
Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?
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Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.
View of Earth from space showing a partially illuminated hemisphere with detailed ocean and cloud patterns against a backdrop of stars.
In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.
Microscopic close-up of a cell undergoing division, showing two forming daughter cells with visible internal structures against a purple background.
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“The physics of the universe doesn't predict the emergence of biology.” Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin explains how inanimate matter becomes evolutionary:
Image of a galaxy cluster with a purple haze showing dark matter, surrounded by numerous distant stars and galaxies against the dark backdrop of space.
How do normal matter and dark matter separate by so much when galaxy clusters collide? Astronomers find the surprising, unexpected answer.
Digital rendering of multiple human brain models floating against a gray background, highlighting specific brain regions in red.
“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.”
Illustration of radio telescopes detecting propylene oxide molecules in space, against a star-filled galaxy background.
Such discoveries help researchers better understand the development of molecular complexity in space during star formation.
Three Masai men, dressed in traditional attire and adorned with beaded jewelry, gather around a smartphone in an outdoor setting.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
A person in traditional attire works meticulously on a sculpture at a small table in a workshop filled with various art pieces and tools, drawing from deep geido knowledge to perfect each detail.
You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.
A pencil fills in the first answer bubble on a multiple-choice test sheet, option "1" for question 90.
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Testing is an attempt to measure intelligence. But is intelligence really what’s getting measured? A neuroscientist weighs in:
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Even in the very early Universe, there were heavy, supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. How did they get so big so fast?
Close-up of a blue shoelace with silver aglets, transforming ordinary things into art against a plain background featuring black squiggle and circular sketch marks.
Have you ever noticed how many things you interact with but can’t name? So did we.
A digital network visualization with red person icons interconnected by lines symbolizes communication and connectivity. The background is dark with bright red lines forming a web-like structure, evoking the strategic mind of your inner CEO.
The new corporate landscape demands an approach to leadership based on empowering the “inner CEO.”
Often viewed as a purely theoretical, calculational tool only, direct observation of the Lamb Shift proved their very real existence.
Close-up of a hornet with black and yellow stripes on its body, perched on small white flowers against a green background.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.