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.

how many planets
There will always be "wolf-criers" whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
Illustration of a person holding a cup while selecting a book from a shelf filled with various colorful book spines.
Revisiting the year’s noteworthy nonfiction.
cosmic rays
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here's how they prove Einstein's relativity.
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If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it's a JWST image or any other observatory.
A person with a shaved head, beard, and blue-framed glasses—reminiscent of Demis Hassabis—looks at the camera with their hand resting on their face against a dark background.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
A woman in a red dress is gracefully ice skating on a frozen lake.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.