Technology
Why Did Oklahoma’s Sooner Schooner Tip Over?
A physicist explains how a touchdown celebration went awry and offers some advice for future designers of covered wagons.
NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of Venus
The longest a spacecraft has survived on Earth's "evil twin" is just 127 minutes. Now NASA is building one to last 60 days.
Technology Will Keep Us From Running Out of Stuff
Opinion: Such dire warnings ignore the force of capitalism and technological progress, what Abraham Lincoln called "the fuel of interest...
NASA's Biggest Telescope Yet, Facebook's 2020 Plan, and...
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Scientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown Meat
Researchers take inspiration from cotton candy to make a gelatin scaffolding, which could help realize the dream of more sustainable...
NASA's Biggest Telescope Ever Prepares for a 2021 Launch
Once the $10 billion Webb Telescope is blasted into orbit, it will seek out water on Earth-like planets, stars being born, and more...
New DNA Editing for Diseases, Dining Surveillance, and...
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A New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic Diseases
A less error-prone DNA-editing method could correct many more harmful mutations than was previously possible.
Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027. Good Luck,...
The presidential candidate backs a type of reactor that promises cleaner, safer nuclear energy. But it may not be the best way to...
The Bizarre Aye-Aye Isn’t Giving Us the Finger After All
The primate uses its long middle finger to fish for grubs. But scientists just discovered its “pseudothumb,” meaning it's got six...
