ToK Essays Nov 2024

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

In the 1980s, as China was modernizing, they ran into a problem. There was no way to fit their 70,000 plus character language on a QWERTY keyboard. Today, the story of how they did it.

One way to differentiate between ‘change’ and ‘progress’ is to think of whether or not a change in knowledge is goal orientated. For example, when Fleming discovered penicillin, scientists would eventually talk of Fleming’s breakthrough as real ‘medica

A global collaboration of telescopes including ESA's Integral high-energy space observatory has detected a unique mix of radiation bursting from a dead star in our galaxy—something that has never been seen before in this type of star, and may solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

Scientists are currently pushing on an ethical boundary. Will out of body gestation ever replace the experience of human birth?

Philosopher Nick Bostrom's "singleton hypothesis" predicts the ​future of human societies. It says that intelligent life on Earth will eventually form a "singleton," which could be a single government or an artificial intelligence that runs everything. Whether the singleton will be positive or negative depends on numerous factors.

For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong

Rather than “just another” brain map, the Julich-Brain atlas is like a neuromapping API—one that could unite old brain-mapping efforts with modern methods.

On July 5, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived around Jupiter, becoming the second mission in history to study the gas giant from orbit – the last being the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Since then, the spacecraft has gathered data on Jupiter’s atmosphere, composition, gravity field, and magnetic field in the … Continue reading "Juno Captures Pictures of Ganymede for the First Time"

Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.