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.

One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
brain zapping
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Cherenkov neutrino radiation
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
connected entangled pair
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.
wolf clone
This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.
It's the very closest stars to us that hold the key to unlocking the possibilities for life in star systems all throughout the Universe.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.