Technology

How Forbes Sent E-mails to the Future—And What Happened...

Twenty years ago Forbes.com sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the future...

Does Information Ever Really Disappear? Physics Has an ...

Black holes and quantum mechanics present a paradox about the preservation of in...

How to Send a Message to Future Civilizations

When written knowledge is more ephemeral than ever, how can we pass on what’s im...

Can a Buried Time Capsule Beat Earth’s Geology and Deep...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tecto...

Nuclear-Waste Arks Are a Bold Experiment in Protecting ...

Designing nuclear-waste repositories is part engineering, part anthropology—and ...

The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking—Here’s How to Watch...

A thin crescent moon and dark skies could give watchers a clear view of this ast...

How Technology and Friendship Preserved a 20-Year E-mai...

Scientific American’s editor in chief David M. Ewalt reflects on a 20-year exper...

How Influential People Map Their Social World

The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connec...

Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies Dramaticall...

People with this autoimmune disease face much shorter life expectancies in lower...

Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is t...

Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released long-promised ...

Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shape...

New Glenn Rocket Launch Tests Jared Isaacman’s Commerci...

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s int...

Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful...

The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral d...

Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating Burger

Lone star tick bites are the most common cause of alpha-gal syndrome, which caus...

We Had a Name for ‘Galaxies’ before We Knew They Existed

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “sp...

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