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.

dark matter substructure intracluster light
In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.
A spacecraft travels at the fastest spacecraft speed record through bright, yellow-orange streaks of plasma and solar wind near the Sun.
The Parker Solar Probe is about to undergo its seventh encounter with Venus on its journey toward the Sun. Here's how fast it'll go.
Image of a tomato and carrot, each partially overlaid with a black and white digital circuit pattern. The background is a gray, circuit-like texture.
A simple plate of vegetables has found the gaping blindspots in generative AI, and points the way to fixing them.
A hooded crow, exemplifying the intelligence of smart crows, pecks at a nut it holds with its claws on a mossy stone ground.
New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.
Two individuals are holding and inspecting a large white balloon outdoors, with a silhouette of trees visible in the background at dusk.
Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.
Lockman hole galaxy cluster herschel
In all directions, at great distances, the Universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved. Does that mean Earth must be the center?
A stylized clock with a plate as the face and a fork and knife as the hands, emitting a red glow against a dark background, symbolizes the ritual of fasting.
“Having more stem cell activity is good for regeneration, but too much of a good thing over time can have less favorable consequences.”