technology

A single GE90-115B turbofan is rated at 115,300 pounds-force of thrust. The physics behind it is a short chain of ideas: squeeze air, burn fuel in it, and let the hot gas do work.

From smallpox to COVID-19, vaccines are humanity's most powerful medical technology. Here's how we discovered them.

AI-driven network routing is replacing static algorithms in 5G—reducing latency, balancing load, and adapting to traffic in real time.

A strand of glass thinner than a human hair can carry more information than all the copper wires ever made. Here's the physics behind it.

Your phone's navigation relies on corrections from both special and general relativity. Without Einstein, GPS would be off by kilometers within hours.

DeepMind's reinforcement learning system cut Google's data center cooling energy by 40%—a case study in applying AI to climate-critical infrastructure.

MRI sees inside your body without radiation by making hydrogen atoms in your tissues sing at a specific radio frequency.

Building a skyscraper means solving physics problems at enormous scale — wind, weight, sway, and the challenge of going higher.

Facial recognition turns a face into a short list of numbers and compares it with stored lists. Here is how detection, embeddings, and thresholds work, and why error rates differ across groups and settings.

The most sophisticated cyberattacks don't exploit code — they exploit people. Here's how phishing, pretexting, spear phishing, and vishing manipulate human psychology to bypass any technical defense.

A photon from the sun hits silicon, kicks out an electron, and creates electricity. This simple fact is reshaping civilization.

Ransomware has crippled hospitals, pipelines, and governments. Here is the technical reality of how attackers get in, encrypt files, steal data, and get paid, and which defenses hold up.