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Science & Tech
Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which "infinity" wins?
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
Beer's flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic cosmic events of all. On October 9, 2022, a remarkable one occurred: the brightest ever seen.
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.
The cathedral is being explored as never before.
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What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
A blood test to diagnose mental illness is a "holy grail" of psychiatry.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.