Technology

Modern luxury watches can be traced back to one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sisters

Binoculars and other far-range optics span a gamut of price points. Here’s what separates top-tier from entry-level

The SciFy program tests whether adversaries’ most outlandish scientific claims add up or fall apart

With the rise of private orbital habitats, vacations in space are becoming a real possibility for the ultrawealthy

Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark

NASA plans to launch a wildly ambitious nuclear-powered octocopter to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 2028

Here’s how scientists drilled 8,000 feet through ice to place the world’s deepest seismometers

Ghost Murmur was described as a futuristic CIA tool that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances. Physicists say the public story clashes with the basic limits of magnetic sensing

A hidden milestone lurks in the U.S.’s Artemis-focused lunar ambitions—the nation’s first-ever successful robotic moon rover

As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the research is divided on whether those biases persist outside the lab and in real-world interactions

Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post about using nuclear bombs to cut a new channel in the Strait of Hormuz. There’s history there

A new laser system aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft is sending sharper video and more data back to Earth