Technology
NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
With new satellites and programs, the agency is tackling air quality from all angles—for the health of people and the planet.
America’s Tornadoes Are Evolving, Fast
Scientists are hesitant to blame climate change, but varying weather conditions are causing new and troubling tornado patterns.
How Much Detail of the Moon Can Your Smartphone Really...
What’s the smallest lunar object a phone camera lens could resolve from Earth? Here’s what the physics of light tells us about shooting...
Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’
For the first time, researchers transferred them to the wombs of female monkeys, where the embryo-like structures produced a response...
The Arctic’s Permafrost-Obsessed Methane Detectives
The Far North is thawing, unleashing clouds of planet-heating gas. Scientists rely on an arsenal of tech to sniff out just how nasty...
The Therapy Part of Psychedelic Therapy Is a Mess
There’s little evidence to prove how necessary or helpful many of the accepted norms in psychedelic-assisted therapy are—and some...
The ‘Little Bang’ Helping Physicists Study the Infant Universe
By recreating an early state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, scientists hope to understand the conditions that made the universe...
A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa
The World Health Organization is gearing up to test vaccines against the Marburg virus—but the world is still not prepared to contain...
Lab-Grown Burgers Have a Secret Ingredient: Plants
The first cultivated beef burger you eat will probably contain only a small amount of animals cells—and a whole lot of green stuff.
Palantir’s Plan to Decipher the Mysteries of Long Covid
The tech giant is helping researchers and clinicians decipher vast amounts of data generated by people with persistent symptoms.
