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.

Bird drone
Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
Metastatic Melanoma Cells
Evolutionary game theory could tip the advantage to medicine.
Einstein bohr
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
uncanny robot
The most technically impressive feats of animation often strike us as eerie instead of impressive, and it’s all thanks to the uncanny valley.
SpinLaunch
SpinLaunch's launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
mushrooms
Roughly half the world population, including in America, has insufficient levels of vitamin D. UV irradiated mushrooms can help.
near-death experience
Our brains might be flooded with the hallucinogen DMT as we die, leading to vivid dreams.
Oort Cloud
Our Solar System's outer reaches, and what's in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
biosignatures
Purely physical and chemical processes can deceive us into thinking that life is present, when it actually is not.
testosterone competition
In tough competitions, men tend to give up early when they feel a low sense of control. Testosterone eradicates that effect.
Omicron
There is no rule that will force Omicron or another COVID variant to become less deadly over time, but there is reason for hope.
In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.
The paper-thin device may also someday be used to stimulate bone growth.
universe expand energy
Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.