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.

An illustration of Galileo Galilei with a historical text and a lunar sketch alongside.
"I was stunned. Here in front of me was the original apparatus through which a new vision of the world was slowly and painfully brought to light."
Global geoid map with colorful variations representing differences in Earth's gravity field. The scale ranges from -100 (low) to 100 (high). Europe's position is central.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They're more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.
Person examining a petri dish with tweezers, holding small colored objects, against a dark background.
They’re in our brains, hearts, and blood — but what are they doing to us?
A wasp illustration in blue on grid paper is overlaid on a close-up image of effervescent bubbles in a golden alcoholic liquid.
Could studying the Oriental hornet lead to a treatment for people with alcohol use disorder?
Two colorful cells with purple nuclei, green cell edges, and radiating filament structures against a black background.
The findings suggest that biochemical and physical effects of exercise could help heal nerves.
A golden-brown turkey being carefully lowered into a metal pot outdoors, ready for a deep fry amidst the grassy area and wooden fence.
It's the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.
A green and abstract background with connected molecular diagrams and labeled sections: "Building block" and "Assembly pool," with an "Assembly index: 8.
We need a "theory that explains the evolution of evolution," argues theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker.