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.

Even the youngest galaxies are often dust-rich, even with very low levels of heavy elements. Nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A explains why.
A woman in a blue dress sits beside a cradle with a baby; two adults are seated at a green table with a closed book, highlighting the enduring importance of books in an age of advancing technology.
Joel Miller, the author of “The Idea Machine,” joins us to explore why books are history’s most successful information technology.
A galaxy cluster with a faint purple glow, showing a dotted yellow circle in the center, surrounded by distant stars and galaxies.
Astronomers have found starless gas clouds before, but Cloud 9 might be the most pristine one of all, with big lessons for cosmic history.
3D topographic map showing underwater reefs and features labeled with names such as Toul ar Fot, TAF1, Porz Biazel, and Ar Fot Bras; scale and north arrow included.
Scientists found a massive underwater wall off the coast of France that might help explain the origin of the legend of Ys.
A field of distant galaxies in space with a blue-tinted, magnified section highlighting a single bright celestial object observed by JWST, possibly rich in oxygen.
In a galaxy less than 300 million years after the Big Bang, oxygen's presence abounds. That's expected; its absence would truly be profound.
A black and white image of a ball in antigravity motion.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?
The very word "quantum" makes people's imaginations run wild. But chances are you've fallen for at least one of these myths.