Science & Technology

The results were announced one day before an advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to review data for the Pfizer-BioNTech...

Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own...

Operation Dark HunTor spanned eight countries—and put the focus on sellers more than marketplaces.

By Roelof Botha for Team Sequoia.

"Why should that be the default, particularly when so much value creation happens later?".

It’s a 32,000-gallon concrete tank with a wind tunnel grafted on top. With it, researchers can study the seas—and climate change—like never before.

The renowned author says his genre should inspire solutions. In his new novel, 'Termination Shock,' he tackles our most existential crisis.

With vaccines for 5-to-11-year-olds likely to be approved, data suggests that safe rollout could affect the overall course of the pandemic in the US.

ESA will soon release positions for its brand-new entry-level programme: the Junior Professional Programme! A three-year placement with exceptional learning...

NASA’s real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.

Just like clouds on Earth, clouds of gas and dust in space can sometimes resemble familiar objects, or even popular movie creatures.

The Breakthrough Listen project detected radio waves that seemed to be the best candidate yet for an alien signal, but it turns out it was just human...

A WIRED series dives into thousands of internal documents, showing a company rife with issues that it largely failed to address.

Considerable uncertainty surrounds the timeline of introductions and onsets of local transmission of SARS-CoV-2 globally1–7. Although a limited number of...

Gun violence rose overall in the US during the covid-19 pandemic. The highest increase was seen in Minnesota, while Alaska had a dip in gun violence cases.

Space junk may look like a supernova as SETI researchers struggle with a signal.

The College Advising Corps helps low-income and underrepresented students pursue college degrees.

A wide variety of animals have tusks, from elephants and walruses to five-pound, guinea pig-looking critters called hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals...

Clean air zones across Europe, including in London, are really working to cut dangerous air pollutio.

Thanks to social media, our nasty side has never been more prevalent, but is there a way to quantify how spiteful you actually are?

A newly discovered cause of balding in aging male mice could reveal a cause of hair loss in men and women as well, reports a study from Northwestern Medicine...

Child psychiatric disorders, such as oppositional defiant disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), can feature outbursts of anger and...

The advisory panel endorsed the vaccine to be given at one third the dose of what adults and older kids (age 12 to 17) get now.

Astronomers searching for Earth-like planets in other solar systems have made a breakthrough by taking a closer look at the surface of stars.

Studying the complex causes of Alzheimer's disease, and how to treat and prevent this condition, is like solving a many-piece puzzle, with scientists each...

New work led by Carnegie's Kangmei Zhao and Sue Rhee reveals a new mechanism by which plants are able to rapidly activate defenses against bacterial...

When most people think of wearable devices, they think of smart watches, smart glasses, fitness trackers, even smart clothing. These devices, part of a...

As anyone who has ever parked a car in the sun on a hot summer day knows, glass windows are great at letting sunlight in but terrible at allowing heat out.

Members of the public can now help teach an artificial intelligence algorithm to recognize scientific features in images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover.

Personal carbon allowances were once deemed to be too far ahead of the curve, but the time may finally be right for a revival, writes Graham Lawton.

As countries prepare to reveal new targets to reduce carbon emissions, a climate report card shows who’s already flunking.

Yoti’s tech may be enticing for Big Tech companies: It works out if you’re under or over 13, the age most social media platforms require to create an account.

NASA is looking into whether mixed reality technology could help with repairs and upgrades on the cutting-edge Cold Atom Lab aboard the space station.

I didn’t know I had badges coming. I didn’t know I had even earned any. All I can remember is that I gave a few dollars here and there because Jimmy had...

CyberSecure, hosted online November 16-17 by MIT Technology Review, examines the ransomware response and how to mount a strategic defense against...

The world still lags on its commitments to lower greenhouse gas emissions and forestall the worst effects of global warming, a new U.N. report shows.

Read online Subscriber-Only Newsletter October 26, 2021 The New York Times; Photograph by MicroStockHub/Getty Images The Facebook C.E.O. personifies the...

Finland wants to make everything from ceramics to medical devices and even satellites from wood, helping it to hit carbon neutrality by 2035.

The astronauts who will fly on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission arrive at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 26, 2021. Exiting the plane from...

Stillsuits help protect Frank Herbert's characters from extreme desert conditions in "Dune," but how does the science fiction world of Arrakis compare to Earth?

Welcome to 16 Minutes, our show where we talk about tech trends in the news! We have two segments today: 1) The announcement recently that Valve Software,...

The Food and Drug Administration is all but certain to authorize the vaccine in coming days, meaning it could become available in early November.

The seven-member Expedition 66 crew is getting ready for a Russian cargo mission and the arrival and departure of two commercial crews over the next several...

A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope’s observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation.

Some seahorses pair for life, with the males carrying the pregnancies – but if the pair are separated for even a few days the female seems to forget the male.

The AirPods were already great, but the new AirPods 3 offer better sound, an improved design, and a wireless charging case.

Playing video games that are heavy on action can make you better at some new tasks. New research reveals that these games are helping by teaching players to...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, health care practitioners have relied on COVID-19 testing to tell them what safety precautions to follow with each patient....

Writing in EMBO reports, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health describe how a...

Requiring a discerning eye, mathematical precision, and keen sense of aesthetics, map making is a unique application of both art and science. Though the...