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The Bird Flu Threat Keeps Growing
Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics
No, You Can’t Have a Solar-Powered Passenger Plane
The Mysterious Discovery of ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor
The Race for the Next Ozempic
Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris
Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling in the Aftermath of the Great IT Meltdown
Newly Discovered Moon Caves Could One Day House Astronauts
To Find Alien Life, We Might Have to Kill It
The New UK Government Wants Clean Energy, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and Public Transport Reform
It Will Soon Be Easier for Americans to Recycle Batteries
Google DeepMind's Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second Volunteer
AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era
The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy
This Ancient Technology Is Helping Millions Stay Cool
Health Care Should Be Designed for the Extremes of Life
How a Group of Butterflies Managed to Fly 4,200 Kilometers Without Stopping
The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors
Sexist Myths Are a Danger to Health
Not Everyone Loses Weight on Ozempic
NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms Are Struggling to Make Them
Aging Might Not Be Inevitable
With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life
Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain
Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed
Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to Find Them
Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI
How to Take the Perfect Soccer Penalty
Starship’s Successful Test Moves SpaceX One Step Closer to Mars
Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing
Sellers Call Amazon’s Buy Box ‘Abusive.’ Now They’re Suing
From the Archives: Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re Celebrating
The 2024 US Open Is Designed to Thwart Golf’s Big Hitters
Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI
From the Archives: The Race to Save Yellowknife From Raging Wildfires
Apple's Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave
AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
The World’s Largest Fungarium May Unlock the Mysteries of Carbon Capture
From the Archive: How a Firefly Course Is Saving Japan’s Favorite Glowing Insect
From the Archives: What Do We Owe the Octopus?
From the Archives: Why Scientists Are Bugging the Rainforest
Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
From the Archives: What Science Says About Social Media and Mental Health
Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTube
Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
From Security, Spoken: Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control
From Business, Spoken: Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?
Chatbots Are Entering the Stone Age
Neuralink’s First User Is ‘Constantly Multitasking’ With His Brain Implant
From What's New: Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees
The Auroras Should Be Spectacular This Summer, Thanks to Solar Maximum
Don’t Believe the Biggest Myth About Heat Pumps
Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing
How a Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria
The World Is Ignoring the—Other—Deadly Kind of Carbon
Hydro Dams Are Struggling to Handle the World’s Intensifying Weather
City Trees Save Lives
An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs
Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves Now. But There’s a Catch
Saunas Are the Next Frontier in Fighting Depression
The First Person to Receive a Pig Kidney Transplant Has Died
These Artificial Blood Platelets Could One Day Save Lives
The Earth Is About to Feast on Dead Cicadas
Sell Lab-Grown Meat in Alabama and You Could Go to Jail
The One Thing That’s Holding Back the Heat Pump
Boeing's Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into Space
The US Is Cracking Down on Synthetic DNA
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
She Painted a Few Champagne Bottles. Then Came Meta’s Customer Support Hell
Can’t Afford a House? Buy a Piece of One Instead
What’s the Safest Seat on an Airplane?
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused By Cloud Seeding
Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better
Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse
The Rise of the Carbon Farmer
US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an $830 Million Plan to Fix It
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change
Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?
Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program
Mexico City’s Metro System Is Sinking Fast. Yours Could Be Next
He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working
Why the East Coast Earthquake Covered So Much Ground
Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?
‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills:’ American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions
How to View April’s Total Solar Eclipse, Online and In Person
This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of People
Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot
The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows
The Real Reason Why Some Abortion Pill Patients Go to the ER
The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space
Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed so Quickly
A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time
Are You Noise Sensitive? Here's How to Tell
Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears
The World's E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
DeepMind Is Helping Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are
Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap
So You Want to Rewire Brains
Get Ready to Eat Pond Plants
Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?
Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea-Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking
A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound
Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That
A Tragic Tower Block Fire Exposes the World's Failing Fire Regulations
US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day
Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
Alabama IVF Patients Are Running Out of Time
What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump
A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber
The Transport Companies Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind
Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft
Tech Still Isn’t Doing Enough to Care for the Environment
Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War
The Leading Lab-Grown-Meat Company Just Paused a Major Expansion
Why Fake Caviar Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution
Farming Prioritizes Cows and Cars—Not People
Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible?
Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future
These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump
Dr. Dara Norman Wants to Bring More People Into Science
I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away
A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap Insulin
Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Schoolchildren
Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains
Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink’s Brain Implant
Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space Right Now
6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is at Risk of Extinction
The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
The World's First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now
Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
A Scandal Is Tearing the World of Record-Breaking Dogs Apart
A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person—and Worked for 3 Days
Scabies Is Making a Comeback
The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever
The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max
Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Decision Is a Warning
Why Humans Are Putting a Bunch of ‘Coal’ and ‘Oil’ Back in the Ground
There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It
How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold
Yes, the Climate Crisis Is Now ‘Gobsmacking.’ But So Is Some Progress
Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
Former NBA Star Rick Fox Is Making a Play for Carbon-Neutral Concrete
Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry
Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial
Snow Sports Are Getting More Dangerous
Energy Drinks Are Out of Control
You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
Elon Musk’s New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation
How Dr. Clara Nellist Collides Art and Science
A Brilliant COP Agreement? It Depends Who You Ask
Here’s Scientific Proof Your Cat Will Eat Almost Anything
This Pill Tracks Your Vitals From the Inside
The First Crispr Medicine Is Now Approved in the US
Don’t Worry, It’s Just ‘Fire Ice’
Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah Is Reimagining Cancer Care
Ozempic Could Also Help You Drink Less Alcohol
Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000
Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There
Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them
A Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatment Is Under FDA Investigation—for Cancer Risk
Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space
Dr. Paula Johnson Is Breaking Down the Barriers to Better Health
It’s Time to Log Off
Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet
Emissions Should Be Plummeting. Instead, They’re Breaking Dangerous New Records
The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved
Dr. Alison Todd’s Inventions May Save Your Life
Dr. Michelle Wong Brings the Science of Skincare to New Audiences
A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol
Wegovy Slashes the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke in a Landmark Trial
The Hidden, Awful Way That Climate Change Imperils Animals
The FDA Approves Weight Loss Drug Zepbound, a Wegovy and Ozempic Rival
New Jersey Keeps Newborn DNA for 23 Years. Parents Are Suing
The Euclid Space Telescope’s Spectacular First Photos of Distant and Hidden Galaxies
The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
Scientists Have Finally Found the Origins of a Mysterious Asteroid
The Ultra-Efficient Farm of the Future Is in the Sky
As Extreme Heat Increases, Heart Attacks Will Rise
Everyone Was Wrong About Why Cats Purr
These Plants Change Color When Exposed to a Pesticide
If You Didn’t Care About Antarctica’s Icy Belly, You Will Now
Why Antidepressants Take So Long to Work
The Mystery of Cosmic Radio Bursts Gets Bright New Clues
Glacial Lakes Threaten Millions in a Warming World
The Surprising Way Clean Energy Will Help Save the Snowpack
New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy
These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu
Chum Salmon Are Spawning the Arctic. It’s an Ominous Sign
Inside the Race to Crush Paris’ Bedbug Crisis
NASA’s Psyche Mission Is Off to Test a Space Laser (for Communications)
A Groundbreaking Human Brain Cell Atlas Just Dropped
This First Peek Inside NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Is a Glimpse Back in Time
A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years
Heat Waves in the Ground Are Getting More Extreme—and Perilous
New Malaria Vaccines Offer a Real Shot at Fighting the Disease
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells
September's Record-Shattering Heat Was ‘Absolutely Gobsmackingly Bananas’
The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed
Why It’s Too Soon to Call It Covid Season
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations
DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
How to Make a Pig Heart Transplant Last in a Person
How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth
A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
The US Is Mobilizing an Army to Fight the Climate Crisis
A Pair of Sun Probes Just Got Closer to Solving a Solar Enigma
Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants
This Treaty Could Stop Plastic Pollution—or Doom the Earth to Drown in It
NASA Didn’t Find Aliens—but if You See Any UFOs, Holler
Libya’s Deadly Floods Show the Growing Threat of Medicanes
Covid Boosters Can’t Outpace New Mutations. Here’s Why They Still Work
Blue-Green Algae Is Filling Rivers With Toxic Sludge
The Investigation of SpaceX’s Starship Explosion Is Complete—and Elon Musk Has More Work to Do
Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs
What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?
A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm
Weight-Loss Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy Can Also Protect the Heart
The High-Stakes Calculus of Preventing Wildfires by Burying Power Lines
Paper Coffee Cups Are Just as Toxic for the Environment as Plastic Ones
DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go?
The Massive Campaign to Air-Drop Tiny Rabies Vaccines to Raccoons
The Race to Save Yellowknife From Raging Wildfires
The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning
India’s Lander Touches Down on the Moon. Russia’s Has Crashed
The Winds That Doomed Lahaina
How Hilary Turned Into a Monster Storm
Montana Youth Win a Historic Climate Case
Russia and India Are Racing to Put Landers on the Moon
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
How to Help and Donate to Wildfire Victims in Hawaii
Cities Aren’t Supposed to Burn Like This Anymore—Especially Lahaina
Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use
How NASA Nearly Lost the Voyager 2 Spacecraft Forever
The Scary Science of Maui’s Wildfires
The Weird Way That Human Waste Is Killing Corals
The Mystery Genes That Are Keeping You Alive
Everyone Was Wrong About Antipsychotics
Covid’s Summer Wave Is Rising—Again
This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves
The First Pill for Postpartum Depression Is Almost Here
The Mystery of the Colorado River’s Missing Water
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal
Heat Waves Aren’t Just Getting Hotter—They’re Sticker Too
Why Scientists Are Clashing Over the Atlantic’s Critical Currents
Coming Soon Near You: Bears
This Rare Case of Green Hairy Tongue Is Pure Nightmare Fuel
This Startup Wants to Give Farmers a Closer Look at Crops—From Space
Ticks and the Diseases They Carry Are Spreading. Can This Drug Stamp Them Out?
Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them
The US Finally Approved an Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill. Here’s What to Know
An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo
Weird Weather Is Making Air Travel Even Worse
The Arctic Is a Freezer That’s Losing Power
A Hair Loss Study Raises New Questions About Aging Cells
Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones
The Microplastic Crisis Is Getting Exponentially Worse
Why People Stop Using Drugs Like Ozempic
A Rare Domestic Resurgence of Malaria Is Circulating in the US
One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
Scientists Are Gene-Editing Flies to Fight Crop Damage
Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than You Think
Health Care Data Is a Researcher’s Gold Mine
More People Are Going Blind. AI Can Help Fight It
In the Future, Patients Won’t Go to the Hospital—It Will Come to Them
Heat Waves Are Unleashing a Deadly but Overlooked Pollutant
The Pain and Promise of Europe’s Abortion Laws
How to Find the Titanic Sub Before It’s Too Late
Bird Populations Are in Meltdown
Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ships Are Trying to Stage a Comeback
How to Check the Air Quality Near You
Psychedelic Therapy Is Here. Just Don’t Call It Therapy
Gentle Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory During Sleep
Satellites Keep Photobombing Space Images. Astronomers Need a Fix
Bees Get All the Love. Won’t Someone Think of the Moths?
The Kakhovka Dam Collapse Is an Ecological Disaster
The Age of Flames Reaches the US East Coast
Genomics Are a Lifesaver for Patients With Rare Diseases
The Quest for a Switch to Turn on Hunger
A Secret Key to Saving Species Is Blowing in the Wind
The Race Is On to Crack an Artist’s ‘Test’ Signal From Aliens
A Pill Version of Ozempic Is Coming
Get Ready for 3D-Printed Organs and a Knife That ‘Smells’ Tumors
This Machine Makes You Hallucinate
Bring Back the Seabirds, Save the Climate
Antarctic Sea Ice Is at Record Lows. Is It an Alarming Shift?
You’re Allergic to the Modern World
New Alzheimer’s Drugs Offer Subtle Benefits—With Real Risks
Axiom’s Second Flight Paves the Way for a Commercial Space Station
How Chronic Illness Patients Are ‘Hacking’ Their Wearables
The Looming El Niño Could Cost the World Trillions of Dollars
A New Study Reveals the Traits That Speed Up Evolution
The First Crispr-Edited Salad Is Here
This Is the Quietest Sound in the Universe
Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space
Your Dog Is a Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Cancer
The Weird Way Australia’s Bushfires Influenced a Weirder La Niña
The End of the Covid Emergency Is a Warning
Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis—Until Now
The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect
A New Cloned Horse Offers Hope for Endangered Species
The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain
Is Cosmology Broken? This Map May Be a Crucial Puzzle Piece
Deadly Heat Threatens the Well-Being of 1 Billion People in India
An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans
The Quest for Longevity Is Already Over
As Sea Levels Rise, the East Coast Is Also Sinking
This Private Moon Lander Is Kicking Off a Commercial Lunar Race
Forget Cars, Green Hydrogen Will Supercharge Crops
A Critical Arctic Organism Is Now Infested With Microplastics
The Supreme Court Has Delayed Its Abortion Pill Decision
The Search for Long Covid Treatments Takes a Promising Turn
The Biggest Microbiome Study Sheds New Light on Shared Health Risks
A ‘Morning-After Pill’ for Sexually Transmitted Infections Is Almost Here
Diseases Didn’t Just Shape History, They Control the Future
The Abortion Pill Legal Standoff Endangers Access to All Drugs
The Massive ‘Batteries’ Hidden Beneath Your Feet
Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air
Stem Cell ‘Junk Yards’ Reveal a New Clue About Aging
NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’
The ‘Little Bang’ Helping Physicists Study the Infant Universe
Finally, an Honest Conversation About Contraception
Your First Lab-Grown Burger Won’t Contain Much Beef
How Do People Live in Orbit? Ask the Space Archeologists
This Blood Test Targets 50 Types of Cancer
The Chemical Menace Inside Glaciers and Icebergs
Plastics Are Devastating the Guts of Seabirds
California’s Atmospheric Rivers Are Getting Worse
Climate Freeloaders Are Destroying the Planet
This Is the Lightest Paint in the World
The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun
The Climate Report That Foretells Humanity’s Future
Your Tap Water Is Filthy, but That Could Finally Change
How a Beam of Pellets Could Blast a Probe Into Deep Space
How to Create Your Optimal Bedtime Routine
How to Lucid Dream (Even if You Think You Can’t)
The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal
The World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Is About to Launch
No One Knows if You Need Another Covid Booster
It’s Time for a Flu Vaccine—for Birds
Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be
As Kenya’s Crops Fail, a Fight Over GMOs Rages
How Old Are You, Really? New Tests Want to Tell You
The Disruptors Who Want to Make Death Greener
Cute Animals Are Overrated. Let’s Save the Weird Ones
You Can Turn Your Backyard Into a Biodiversity Hotspot
No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
On-Demand Rocket Launches Are Coming
A Stroke Paralyzed Her Arm. This Implant Let Her Use It Again
Rovers Are So Yesterday. It’s Time to Send a Snakebot to Space
Why Bother Bringing Back the Dodo?
A Bold Plan to Beam Solar Energy Down From Space
MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the First Time
The Secret to Making Concrete That Lasts 1,000 Years
Did the Seeds of Life Ride to Earth Inside an Asteroid?
How Sensor-Dangling Helicopters Can Help Beat the Water Crisis
A Looming El Niño Could Dry the Amazon
Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice
At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up
The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem
Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?
Hey EV Owners: It’d Take a Fraction of You to Prop Up the Grid
It’s Not Sci-Fi—NASA Is Funding These Mind-Blowing Projects
Medieval monks were, in many ways, the original LinkedIn power users
Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat
Lasers Are Mapping Scotland’s Mysterious Iron Age Passages
The Tonga Eruption Is Still Revealing New Volcanic Dangers
This Seriously Hipster Bean Is Coffee’s Best Hope for Survival
The Key to California's Survival Is Hidden Underground
Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing
What This Fearsome Weapon Reveals About Early Americans
Meet the Earth’s Lawyers
Climate Enforcers Need Hard Evidence. Friederike Otto Has It
Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose
Drug Shortages Aren’t New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look
In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated
2022 Wasn't the Hottest on Record. That's Nothing to Celebrate
Let’s Go to Mars. Let’s Not Live There
You Don’t Need to Fear a World of 8 Billion Humans
Here’s What’s Next for Pig Organ Transplants
Eating Too Much Salt Could Cause Stress Levels to Rise
A More Elegant Form of Gene Editing Progresses to Human Testing
The Bittersweet Defeat of Mpox
Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw
Russia Has Turned Eastern Ukraine Into a Giant Minefield
The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost?
How Far Can You Fly a Battery-Powered Jumbo Jet?
How the UN’s ‘Sex Agency’ Uses Tech to Save Mothers’ Lives
The Grim Origins of an Ominous Methane Surge
Antihelium Offers Hope in the Search for Dark Matter
A Smart Way to Get Ahead of the Next Flu Surge
The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away
How Do You Prove There’s Ice on the Moon? With a Lunar Flashlight
The Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
‘Solar Twins’ Reveal the Consistency of the Universe
The Next Great Overdose-Reversing Drug Might Already Exist
The Extraordinary Shelf Life of the Deep Sea Sandwiches
This Low-Cost Test for Hearing Loss Lives on a Smartphone
Electronic Second Skins Are the Wearables of the Future
The Era of One-Shot, Multimillion-Dollar Genetic Cures Is Here
A Proactive Way to Detect Cancer at Its Earliest Stages
Pop-Up Farming Pods to Help Colonizers Grow Crops on Mars
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
'Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells
For Alzheimer’s Scientists, the Amyloid Debate Has No Easy Answers
Vertical Farming Needs to Grow More Than Salad
How to Use a Laser to Kick an Electron out of a Molecule
Turns Out Fighting Mosquitoes With Mosquitoes Actually Works
Tiny Aerosols Pose a Big Predicament in a Warming World
NASA Will Not Change the James Webb Telescope's Name
Your Phone Can Determine If a Bridge Is Busted
Europe’s Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing
No, Qatar’s World Cup Can’t Be Classed as Carbon-Neutral
Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change May Finally Get Their Due
Brace Yourself for a Triple Wave of Seasonal Viruses
This Gulp of Engineered Bacteria Is Meant to Treat Disease
This Personalized Crispr Therapy Is Designed to Attack Tumors
How Peaceful Crowds Turn Into a Deadly Crush
The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real
A Caustic Shift Is Coming for the Arctic Ocean
How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
This Platform Makes Sure Companies Stick to Their Climate Pledges
Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
A Clever Way to Map the Moon’s Surface—Using Shadows
The New Math of Wrinkling Patterns
Rats Are Invasive Menaces. These Cameras Spy on Them
A New Tool for Eruption Forecasting: Carbon-Catching Drones
The US Is Finally Considering Protections Against Salmonella
How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation
Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS
Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats
Gas Drilling Is Disrupting Animal Migration
Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’
Cities Need More Native Bees—Lots and Lots of Adorable Bees
Wildfire Smoke May Carry Deadly Fungi Long Distances
It’s Time to Treat Housing Insecurity as a Health Risk
The FCC's Rules on Space Junk Just Got Stricter
A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr
Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups
A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience
The Problem With Mental Health Bots
Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time
The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand
What Is a Wetland Worth?
How to Find Your Vaccine History—and Store It Safely
There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies
Lawns Are Dumb. But Ripping Them Out May Come With a Catch
The Fungus That Killed Frogs—and Led to a Surge in Malaria
The US Is Measuring Extreme Heat Wrong
To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte
How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science
Teaching ‘Selfish’ Wind Turbines to Share Can Boost Productivity
New Reservoirs Could Help Battle Droughts, but at What Cost?
The Legendary Frank Drake Shaped the Search for Alien Life
Forget Silicon. This Computer Is Made of Fabric
Why Pain Feels Worse at Night
Humanity Is Doing Its Best Impression of a Black Hole
This Follicle-Hacking Drug Could One Day Treat Baldness
Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Spew a Complicated Treasure: Sand
To Fight Severe Drought, China Is Turning to Technology
Can a Particle Accelerator Trace the Origins of Printing?
Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?
The Long, Leguminous Quest to Give Crops Nitrogen Superpowers
Swarms of Satellites Are Tracking Illegal Fishing and Logging
Satellites Keep the World’s Clocks on Time. What if They Fail?
This Giant Sprinkler System Can Protect Cities from Wildfires
Egg and Sperm Donors Could Be Required to Share Their Medical Records
At Some Colleges, the Fall of Roe Will Weaken Student Health Care
How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse
New Evidence Points to the Moon Once Being Part of Earth
Is Oxygen the Answer to Long Covid?
As Wildfires Get More Extreme, Observatories Are at Greater Risk
Doctors Are Pioneering a Better Way to Perform Autopsies on Kids
What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?
This Laser-Firing Truck Could Help Make Hot Cities More Livable
The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action
Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future
Monkeypox Originated in Animals. Could It Spill Back Into Them?
The Pigs Died. Then Scientists Revived Their Cells
A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter
NASA is Crowdsourcing Cloud Research—on Mars
How to Prevent Another European Transport Meltdown
This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs
NASA Delayed the Psyche Launch. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal
California Wants to Make Cheap Insulin. Here’s How It Could Work
Ring Vaccination Beat Smallpox. Could It Work for Monkeypox?
Nuclear Power Plants Are Struggling to Stay Cool
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Scientists Could One Day Float an Aerial Robot Above Venus
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Sunny-Day Flooding Is About to Become More Than a Nuisance
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A New Way to Shape Metal Nanoparticles—With a Magnetic Field
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Climate Change Is Erasing Humanity’s Oldest Art
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Fossils in a Forgotten Ice Core Rewrite Greenland’s Icy Past
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NASA Gets a Quick Peek at a Mysterious Layer of the Sun
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NASA Is Training an AI to Detect Fresh Craters on Mars
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Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang
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The Epic Siberian Journey to Solve a Mass Extinction Mystery
Hummingbirds Can See Colors We Can’t Even Imagine
Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
'Carbon Farming' Could Make US Agriculture Truly Green
NASA’s New Moon-Bound Space Suits Will Get a Boost From AI
Stuck at Home, Scientists Discover 9 New Insect Species
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Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space Toilet
The Trouble With Counting Aliens
The Design and Science of Patio Dining During a Pandemic
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The FDA Revokes Its Emergency Use Authorization for Hydroxychloroquine
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When Health Care Moves Online, Many Patients Are Left Behind
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What It’s Like to Be First to Fly a Brand New Spacecraft
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On the Moon, Astronaut Pee Will Be a Hot Commodity
How School Shutdowns Have Longterm Effects on Children
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Have Dropped 17 Percent During the Pandemic
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‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
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Science Fairs Are Canceled. Maybe That’s Just as Well
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The Neuroscience of Why You Could Really Use a Hug Right Now
The Race to Get Convalescent Plasma to Covid-19 Patients
Physicists Clear the Air With a Sweet Frickin' Laser Beam
The World Is Still Producing More Oil Than It Needs. Why?
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The Legacy of Math Luminary John Conway, Lost to Covid-19
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The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Fueled a Gulf Science Bonanza
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New Covid-19 Antibody Study Results Are In. Are They Right?
The Cold, Hard Work of Delivering Oxygen to Ventilators
Africa's Huge Locust Swarms Are Growing at the Worst Time
‘Common Sense’ Is No Substitute for Science in a Pandemic
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A New, Plastic-Busting Enzyme Can Break Down Water Bottles
Death Cuts the Degree of Separation Between You and Covid-19
Turns Out, Traffic Spreads Like the Coronavirus
How a Real Dog Taught a Robot Dog to Walk
The Political Promise of Carbon Taxes
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Solar Panels Could Be the Best Fad Ever
The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping
Why Stress-Baking and Cleaning Make You Less Anxious
In Crowded Hospitals, Who Will Get Life-Saving Equipment?
Researchers Push For Mass Blood Tests as a Covid-19 Strategy
France's Virus Train Moves Patients to Less Hard-Hit Areas
The Heady, Intricate Beauty of Watching Whiskey Evaporate
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An Old Source for Potential New Covid-19 Drugs: Blood Serum
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The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
The ‘Surreal’ Frenzy Inside the US’ Biggest Mask Maker
Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic
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What's Social Distancing? Flattening the Curve? Your Covid-19 Questions, Answered.
Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever
The Sea Is Getting Warmer. Will the Shrimp Get Louder?
How UFO Sightings Became an American Obsession
Plane Contrails Have a Surprising Effect on Global Warming
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Think Flash Floods Are Bad? Buckle Up for Flash Droughts
Spit Kits, Sperm Donors, and the End of Family Secrets
Did a Woman Get Coronavirus Twice? Scientists Are Skeptical
This Clever Robotic Finger Feels With Light
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Australia's Bushfires Completely Blasted Through the Models
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Psychedelic Fiber Offers a New Twist on the Science of Knots
A Car ‘Splatometer’ Study Finds Huge Insect Die-Off
This Marsupial Dies After Marathon Mating. Now It's Got Bigger Worries
NASA Puts a Price on a 2024 Moon Landing
Europe’s Solar Orbiter Begins Its Journey to the Sun
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Pop Culture May Evolve at the Same Rate as Birds and Bugs
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Cats Are Making Australia's Bushfire Tragedy Even Worse
Australia’s Wildfires Might Intensify Future Climate Crises
Scientists Made a Nearly Invincible Lithium-Ion Battery
The FDA Announces Two More Antacid Recalls Due to Cancer Risk
Wildfires Are Obliterating Australia's Iconic Ecosystems
Does Dark Energy Really Exist? Cosmologists Battle It Out
Science Explains Why We Should All Work Shorter Hours in Winter
How the Extreme Art of Dropping Stuff Could Upend Physics
Whales Help Explain the Evolutionary Mystery of Menopause
Now Entering Orbit: Tiny Lego-like Modular Satellites
It's Not Just You—Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are Rising
This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded
Giant Surveillance Balloons Are Lurking at the Edge of Space
We Might Not Be Planting the Right Kinds of Forests
WIRED's 7 Big Science Stories That Shaped 2019
Got the Flu? These Doctors Really Want to See You—Virtually
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New Tests Use Epigenetics to Guess How Fast You're Aging
What a 5,700-Year-Old Piece of Gum Reveals About Its Chewer
Traveling for the Holidays? Here's How to Not Get Sick
Mathematician Terence Tao Cracks a ‘Dangerous’ Problem
Nature Deserves Legal Rights—and the Power to Fight Back
Forget Earth: In Space, Libertarian Ideas Are Thriving
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer
Scientists Find a Weak Spot in Some Superbugs' Defenses
Melting Ski Resorts Have a Snow Machine Problem
Physics Explains Why You Can’t Open a Plane Door in the Air
The Arctic Is Warming Much Faster Than the Rest of Earth
How to Get Solar Power on a Rainy Day? Beam It From Space
SpaceX Will Bring the Science of Fire and Beer to the ISS
A New Way to Make Comfy, Durable Smart Garments
Stop Obsessing Over Sleep—Your Brain Will Thank You
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Our Planet May Be Barreling Toward a Tipping Point
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Why Robots Should Learn to Build Crappy Ikea Furniture
Are Saturn’s Rings Really as Young as the Dinosaurs?
What Makes an Element? The Frankenstein of Sodium Holds Clues
A Solar 'Breakthrough' Won't Solve Cement's Carbon Problem
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Astronomers Detect Water Vapor Around Jupiter's Moon Europa
Can Fake Horns Save the Rhino? That's … Extremely Thorny
Pinterest Has a New Plan to Address Self-Harm
How Wily Teens Outwit Bathroom Vape Detectors
Alien Hunters Need the Far Side of the Moon to Stay Quiet
The EPA's Anti-Science ‘Transparency’ Rule Has a Long History
The Enduring Power of Asperger's, Even as a Non-Diagnosis
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Baby Fish Feast on Microplastics, and Then Get Eaten
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This Martini Wants to Kill Climate Change One Sip at a Time
SpaceX and Boeing Still Need a Parachute That Always Works
Do We Need a Special Language to Talk to Aliens?
If You Want a Robot to Learn Better, Be a Jerk to It
The Delicate Art—and Evolving Science—of Wildfire Evacuations
Trump Can Now Exit the Paris Accord. It's Still a Bad Idea
Where Do Hippos Wander? An Aquatic Mystery, Solved
Here’s What Happens When You Leave Weed Up Your Nose for 18 Years
How the Measles Virus Induces ‘Immune Amnesia’
Bees, Please: Stop Dying in Your Martian Simulator
Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
NASA is Getting Serious About an Interstellar Mission
Scientists Take Baby Steps Toward Extraterrestrial Babies
Technology Will Keep Us From Running Out of Stuff
California’s Wildfires Are the Doom of Our Own Making
We Should Just Build Giant Telescopes ... in Space
A Secret Space Plane Just Landed After a Record Stay in Orbit
Ocean Cleanup’s New Plastic-Catcher … Kinda Already Exists?
Kincade Fire: The Age of Flames Is Consuming California
Can We Plant 20 Million Trees for 2020? The Math Says Yes
The Most Diabolical Race and the Rise of Women Endurance Stars
Why Did Oklahoma’s Sooner Schooner Tip Over?
NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of Venus
NASA's New Space Suits Will Fit Men and Women Alike (for Once)
The Bizarre Aye-Aye Isn’t Giving Us the Finger After All
Scientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown Meat
Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027. Good Luck, Buddy
A New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic Diseases
How Chaos Will Unfold if Trump Opens the Tongass to Logging
All Hail the Blob, the Smart Slime Mold Confounding Science
The NFL's Helmet Tests Are Brainless
Ethnobotanists have a new theory on which plant the berserkers ingested.
AI Could Reinvent Medicine—Or Become a Patient's Nightmare
Why We Need Guidelines for Brain Scan Data
Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope Dies
Mass Graves in Russia Tell the Grim Story of Mongol Invasion
Three Ways to Fix the Drug Industry's Rampant Dysfunction
Unusual Fluids Flip, Twirl, and Redefine How Liquids Work
India Is Ready to Touch Down Near the Moon’s South Pole
This Huge Electric Dump Truck Never Needs to Plug In
Scientists Avoid Bias When They Know They're Being Tested
See How LA Belches Emissions, Block by Block
Brazil's Plans for Gene-Edited Cows Got Scrapped—Here's Why
A Single Math Model Explains Many Mysteries of Vision
Vaping May Have Killed Someone, Health Officials Say
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Humans, More Than Drought, Are Fueling the Amazon's Flames
Melting Glaciers Are Helping Capture Carbon
Vaping May Harm Your Blood Flow—Even Without Nicotine
NASA's Next Martian Rover Is Almost Ready to Rock
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8/12 am - New IPCC Report Shows How Our Abuse of Land Drives Climate Change
8/7 AM How to Reduce Gun Violence: Ask Some Scientists
Americans Trust Scientists, Until Politics Gets in the Way
8/5 midnight - Don't Ask How to Pay for Climate Change. Ask Who
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The World Health Organization Says No More Gene-Edited Babies
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More Scientists Now Think Geoengineering May Be Essential
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A Mythical Form of Space Propulsion Finally Gets a Real Test
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Tired: Eating Bugs. Wired: Eating Bug Meat Grown in a Lab
The Military Is Locked in a Power Struggle With Wind Farms
A Study Exposes the Health Risks of Gene-Editing Human Embryos
Everyone Needs a Good Pillow—Even Astronauts Bound for Mars
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Abortion Bans Create a Public Health Nightmare
The Mystifying Case of the Missing Planets
Inside Facebook's New Robotics Lab, Where AI and Machines Friend One Another
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Now Ocean Plastics Could Be Killing Oxygen-Making Bacteria
5G Networks Could Throw Weather Forecasting Into Chaos
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What's So Special About Human Screams? Ask a Screamologist
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RIP, Anki: Yet Another Home Robotics Company Powers Down
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The Machine That Reads Your Mind (Kinda) and Talks (Sorta)
What’s Known About the SpaceX Crew Dragon Accident
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Offshore Wind Farms Are Spinning Up in the US—At Last
Ancestry.com’s Racist Ad Tumbles Into a Cultural Minefield
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Researchers Want to Link Your Genes and Income—Should They?
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Two Unusual Galaxies Shake Up the Dark Matter Debate, Again
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By 2080, Tropical Diseases Could Be Headed to Alaska
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It's Either the Best Time or the Worst Time to Have a Baby
Robot ‘Natural Selection’ Recombines Into Something Totally New
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Costa Rica's Zero-Carbon Plan Could Be a Model for the World
Scientists Reveal Ancient Social Networks Using AI—and X-Rays
The First Gene-Edited Food Is Now Being Served
The WIRED Guide to Cannabis
Preparing to Unleash Crispr on an Unprepared World
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DNA Crime-Solving Is Still New, Yet It May Have Gone Too Far
The Uncanny Valley Nobody's Talking About: Eerie Robot Voices
The Arctic's ‘Carbon Bomb’ Could Screw the Climate Even More
23andMe’s New Diabetes Test Has Experts Asking Who It’s For
Trump's Budget Guts Science Agencies—But Favors the Moon
A Teen Started a Global Climate Protest. What Are You Doing?
The Genderless Digital Voice the World Needs Right Now
Astronomers Think They Can Explain Mysterious Cosmic Bursts
Inside the High-Stakes Race to Make Quantum Computers Work
The Fish on Your Plate May Not Be What You Ordered
Oceans Are 'Spiking a Fever' With Record Heat Waves
The Gene Mutation That Could Cure HIV Has a Checkered Past
A New Method of DNA Testing Could Solve More Shootings
Post-Apocalyptic Insurers Try Out a New 'Make it Rain' Strategy
SpaceX Is Sending Its First Crew-Ready Capsule to the ISS
How I Became a Robot in London—From 5,000 Miles Away
Gene Editing Is Trickier Than Expected—but Fixes Are in Sight
Polio Is Nearly Wiped Out—Unless Some Lab Tech Screws Up
This Viral Therapy Could Help Us Survive the Superbug Era
Your Weather Tweets Are Showing Your Climate Amnesia
Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New Life Forms
NASA’s Space Shuttle Rises From the Dead to Power New Vehicles
The Triumphant Rediscovery of the Biggest Bee on Earth
Boaty McBoatface Gears Up for Epic Swim Across the Arctic
Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data
The Confounding Climate Science of Lab-Grown Meat
3 Smart Things: What You Might Not Know About Attention
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Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Replication Crisis With Robots
Two Satellites Almost Crashed. Here’s How They Dodged It
A 6-Legged Robot Stares at the Sky to Navigate Like a Desert Ant
This Robot Debates and Cracks Jokes, but It's Still a Toaster
A New Lab Is Brewing Microbes to Create Makeup and Medicines
The Wretched, Climate-Killing Truth About American Sprawl
Now You Can Join the Search for Killer Asteroids
The Green New Deal Shows How Grand Climate Politics Can Be
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SpaceX's Starship, Meant for Mars, Prepares for a First Hop
China’s Moon Lander Wakes Up From Its Long, Ultra-Cold Night
January Was Unusually Warm—Yes, Warm!—Despite That Cold Snap
Ditch the Super Bowl for a Who's Who of Superb Owls
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Don't Save the Planet for the Planet. Do It for the Beer
A Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga. But This Is No Game
An Underwater Skin Sensor Lets Swimmers Track Their Sweat
SpaceX Revs Its Engines as It Gets Closer to Crewed Flight
And Now, the Weather: Mars-like, With a Chance of Apocalypse
This App Lets Kenya's Farmers Monitor Crops From Eyes in the Sky
The Excruciating, Impossible Science of Airport Delays
We Need a Radical New Way to Understand Screen Use
Drones Drop Poison Bombs to Fight One Island’s Rat Invasion
One Scientist Hopes to Engineer the Climate With Antacid
The Water in Your Toilet Could Fight Climate Change One Day
We Can Still Avoid a Repeat of Last Year's Deadly Flu Season
Exploding Stars May Have Killed Off Prehistoric Predators
For Women Job Seekers, Networking Like a Man Isn't Enough
3 Smart Things: The Hidden Lives of Liquids
Space Billboards Are Just the Latest Orbital Stunt
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A Crocodile-Like Robot Helps Solve a 300-Million-Year Mystery
To Prevent Wildfires, Treat Utilities Like Railroad Barons
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Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New Clues
Bio-Printers Are Churning out Living Fixes to Broken Spines
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A Strange Kind of Data Tracks the Weather—and Pirate Ships
To Prevent Fires, One California Town Says 'Goat Fund Me'
Los Angeles Gets America's First Earthquake Warning App
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The Shutdown Shows Just How Vital Government Scientists Are
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Dark Matter Hunters Pivot After Years of Failed Searches
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Scientists Journey Into the Dark Side of Cannabis
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Sea Level Rise Threatens Thousands of Archaeological Treasure Troves
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The Physics Behind the Strange Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua
Behind the Scenes as NASA Tests the Most Powerful Rocket Ever
Soft Robots Acquire Origami Skeletons for Super-Strength
What Good Is a Supercomputer If It Can't Show Off?
This New Robot Will Help Keep Hearts Pumping
Is Trump's NASA Nominee Ready to Tackle Climate Change?
Would You Put the Genetically Modified Arctic Apple in Your Pie?
Could Tesla Power Its Electric Truck With Solar Panels?
This Next-Gen Satellite Will Scan for Storms Like Never Before
California's Hepatitis A Outbreak Is the Future Poking Us in the Face
This Gene-Editing Tech Might Be Too Dangerous To Unleash
How to Hoist Yourself Out of a Hole With Physics
A New Study of Economics as a Science Says It's Still Dismal
Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers
The Subtle Art and Serious Physics of Subway Surfing
Scientists Save a Kid By Growing a Whole New Skin For Him
Mass Shootings, Climate, Discrimination: Why Government's Fear of Data Threatens Us All
Artificial Intelligence Is Putting Ultrasound on Your Phone
Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future
You Too Can Fly a Spacecraft Around Mars—With Physics!
For Scientists Predicting Sea Level Rise, Wind Is the Biggest Unknown
Controversial Brain Imaging Uses AI to Take Aim at Suicide Prevention
After the Napa Fires, a Disaster-in-Waiting: Toxic Ash
How Much Energy Can You Cram Into Your Halloween Candy?
Can You Figure Out What's Wrong in This Iron Man 3 Scene?
New Science Could Sharpen Crispr's Gene-Editing Scalpel
Cutting Carbs Won't Save You From Cancer
The Way the World Ends: Not with a Bang But a Paperclip
How on Earth Does Aquaman Fly in the Justice League Trailer?
Can We Still Rely On Science Done By Sexual Harassers?
Could San Francisco Get the Oil Industry to Pay for Climate Change?
What Happens When Robots Act Just Like Humans
In 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,' Planet Sovereign Defies Physics
How Climate Change and 'Smoke Taint' Could Kill Napa Wine
Meet the Geek Who Tracks Rogue Satellites With Coat Hangers
In Cities, It's the Smoke, Not the Fire, That Will Get You
The Napa Fire Is a Perfectly Normal Apocalypse
This New Alzheimer’s Test Looks Beyond a Single Problem Gene
Silicon Isn't Just for Computers. It Can Make a Pretty Good Kidney, Too
Let's Analyze the Ridiculous Physics of the Bugatti Chiron
Were US Diplomats in Cuba Victims of a Sonic Attack—or Something Else?
The Physics Nobel Goes to the Detection of Ripples in Space and Time
The Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Your Body's Circadian Clock
After Hurricane Maria, Could Puerto Rico Be at Risk of Cholera?
One Gene Mutation May Cause Zika's Devastating Birth Defects
Temperature Is Not What You Think It Is
Can This Tesla Alum Build the World’s Greenest Battery?
The United States Needs an Earthquake Warning System Already
The Post-Antibiotic Era Is Here. Now What?
Archaeologists Don't Always Need to Dig—They've Got Drones
Bored With Your Fitbit? These Cancer Researchers Aren't
With Designer Bacteria, Crops Could One Day Fertilize Themselves
Cities Turn to Other Cities for Help Fighting Climate Change
What if America Had a Detective Agency for Disasters?
Antarctica Is Looking for a Few Good Firefighters
How Congress Ignored Science and Fueled Antibiotic Resistance
A Patient Gets the New Transgender Surgery She Helped Invent
The Serious Physics Behind a Double Pendulum Fidget Spinner
The Science of Fighting Wildfires Gets a Satellite Boost
Antibiotic-Brined Chicken and Other Bad Ideas From US Farming
Can a Drone Carry a Full-Grown Human in a Hammock?
These Mice Stopped Eating Carbs So You (Maybe) Don't Have To
'Dream Chaser' Space Plane Hitches a Ride With a Helicopter
Astronaut Scott Kelly Explains How the ISS Is Like Harris County Jail
Why You Should Read That Whole Text Book Right Now
With Harvey, Imperfect Engineering Meets a Perfect Storm
What's Inside a Magical (and Flammable) Grease-Lifting Cleaner
A New Way for Doctors to Share Their Medical Mysteries
How Will Houston Handle the Deluge of Hurricane Harvey?
Your Brain Cells Hear the Ups and Downs of Language
Crispr Fans Dream of a Populist Future for Gene Editing
The Defenders Could Punch Better if They Learned Some Physics
Plankton 'Mucus Houses' Could Pull Microplastics From the Sea
Explore the Moon Using Augmented Reality
What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language
NASA's Rocket to Nowhere Finally Has a Destination
Buried in a Gold Mine, a Particle Accelerator Searches for Stellar Secrets
View the Eclipse With This Simple Homemade Gadget
Veritas Genomics Scoops Up an AI Company to Sort Out Its DNA
The US Won't Pay For the World's Best Climate Science
Want a Diagnosis Tomorrow, Not Next Year? Turn to AI
How Color Vision Came to the Animals
It's Past Time for You To Ditch That Fancy Scientific Calculator
Trump Wants the EPA Radon Program Cut. So Do Some Scientists
The Plan to End Science’s Sexist #Manel Problem
Science Says 13 Reasons Why May Be the Public Health Scare People Thought
The Space Junk Problem Is About to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier
The Physics Behind the Magical Parallax Effect Running Your AR Apps
Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science
Physicists Try to Revive a Super-Safe, Decades-Old Cancer Treatment
Luxembourg's New Law Lets Space Miners Keep Their Plunder
How on Earth Did Aaron Judge Bean That Stadium Roof? Physics!
Einstein’s Little-Known Passion Project? A Refrigerator
Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery
Climate Change Is Here. It’s Time to Talk About Geoengineering
Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories
The West Is on Fire. Blame the Housing Crisis
Thanks, Climate Change: Heat Waves Will Keep on Grounding Planes
The Physics of Throwing a Big Sack Over Trump's Beautiful Wall
Let’s Play Around With Two Big Ideas in Physics. It’ll Be Fun
Scientists Upload a Galloping Horse GIF Into Bacteria With Crispr
Tesla's Super-Battery Could Help Lift an Aircraft Carrier 1,500 Feet
US Farms Could Suffer as the Arctic Heats Up
Biology's Roiling Debate Over Publishing Research Early
Let’s Geek Out With the Physics of Spider-Man’s Webs
Scientists Map the Receptor That Makes Weed Work
Jill Tarter Never Found Aliens—But Her Successors Might
Put Down That Ketchup and Step Away From the Hot Dog Slowly
What's Inside Triple-Action Mace? Chili Peppers and UV Dye
Pentagon ‘Space Corps’ Plan Leaves Earth Science in the Dust
Your Connected Devices Are Screwing Up Astronomy
Google Unveils an AI Investment Fund. It's Betting on an App Store for Algorithms.
Prisoners of Gravity: Hey, TV Sci-Fi Can Have Ideas After All
Sorry, Han Solo, Star Wars Don't Need No Stinking Directors
Let’s Slice Open the Biggest Contemporary Art Museum in the US
Don't Fall for the 'Memory' Pills Targeting Baby Boomers
A Race to Develop Pollution Sensing Tech Plays Out in Oakland
Oh, Lovely: The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading
The 20 Most Bike-Friendly Cities in the World, From Malmö to Montreal
The Maker of the Most Iconic Chair Wants You to Stand Up
This New Atari-Playing AI Wants to Dethrone DeepMind
With Breast Cancer, the Best Treatment May Be No Treatment
Meet the 89-Year-Old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard
The Physics of Nearly Killing Yourself on a Motorcycle
String Theory’s Weirdest Ideas Finally Make Sense—Thanks to VR
Want to Understand Creativity? Enlist an AI Collaborator
The Physics of Bullets Vs. Wonder Woman’s Bracelets
Crispr’s Next Big Debate: How Messy Is Too Messy?
Wearables Reveal the Secret Lives of Farm Animals
Lyme Isn’t the Only Disease Ticks Are Spreading This Summer
Trump’s Budget Forgets That Science Is Insurance for America
Eruptions Says Goodbye to WIRED
One Man’s Quest to Make 20-Year-Old Rum in Just Six Days
Want Efficient Energy? Try Carbon Dioxide-Powered Turbines
This New Goldilocks Rocket Is Juuust Right for Small Satellites
Cool Spacewalk, Right? Get Ready for More—ISS Will Need Fixin’
A Physicist Breaks Down One of Roger Moore’s Iconic Bond Stunts
Medicine Is Going Digital. The FDA Is Racing to Catch Up
In Defense of the Reality of Time
How Boring Old Pension Funds Might Curb Global Warming
Scientists 3-D Print Mouse Ovaries That Actually Make Babies
Moms: Your Kids Hijacked Your Brain for Life
Your Fidget Spinner Is (Maybe) Making You Smarter
An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out
The Traditional Lecture Is Dead. I Would Know—I’m a Professor
The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn’s Rings
Brian Greene on How Science Became a Political Prisoner
Want to Know How Long a Fidget Spinner Spins? Get a Laser and Some Physics
What Happens When You Train Like Nike’s Two-Hour Marathon Runners
In Which We Literally Calculate the Power of the Force
A Rare Journey Into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a Super-Bunker That Can Survive Anything
How a Missing Penny Explains the Conservation of Energy
India’s Silicon Valley Is Dying of Thirst. Your City May Be Next
Scientists Brew Up the Creepiest Batches of Brain Balls Yet
You Want Better Beer? Good. Here’s a Better Barley Genome
Let’s Do the Shocking Physics of Why Power Lines Sag
Marching Brought Scientists Together—But What Do They Do Now?
So, That Asteroid Didn’t Kill Earth. Bonus: It Delivered Tons of Data
Who’ll Really Benefit From Verily’s Exhaustive Health Study?
The Mystery of the 5-Foot-Long Shipworm Just Got Stinkier
How Steve Wozniak Got Over His Fear of Robots Turning People Into Pets
Let’s Model Radioactive Decay to Show How Carbon Dating Works
The Secret to Training for a Marathon: Just Keep Running
A Crucial Climate Mystery Hides Just Beneath Your Feet
How Hard Does Thor Hit Hulk in That Ragnarok Trailer? Let’s Do the Physics!
To Save Florida’s Famous Oranges, Scientists Race to Weaponize a Virus
The ‘Most Dangerous’ Volcano Can Be a Tricky Thing to Pin Down
Pricey Technology Is Keeping People Alive Who Don’t Want to Live
Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming
Coastal Inundation Reveals the Upside of Climate Change
You Could Soon Print Out Simple Electronics With Your Deskjet
Elon Musk Isn’t the Only One Trying to Computerize Your Brain
Want to Play Scrabble Like a Pro? Here’s Your Memory Trick
The Fanged Fish That Drugs Its Enemies With Opioids
A Russian Volcano Just Erupted for the First Time in Centuries
In Science, You Can’t Always Get What You Want
What’s the Point of Going to Space if You Don’t Make Booze?
Meet the Woman Who Can See With Her Ears
Somebody Just Buy the ISS Already
The Billionaire on a Mission to Save the Planet From Trump
Catnip Ain’t the Only Plant That’ll Send Your Kitty to Blissville
Got a Sock Stuck in Your Vacuum? It’s Time for Some Physics
Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Predict and Prevent Suicide
Trump’s Budget Would Break American Science, Today and Tomorrow
What if Quantum Computers Used Hard Drives Made of DNA?
Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone
The Feds Are Spending Millions to Help You Survive Nuclear War
Want to Make It as a Biologist? Better Learn to Code
Telemedicine Could Be Great, if People Stopped Using It Like Uber
Ben Carson Just Got a Whole Lot Wrong About the Brain
The Beauty of Mathematics: It Can Never Lie to You
Let’s Do the Physics Of Knocking an Asteroid Into the Sun
You Spend 5 Percent of Your Day Outside. Try Making It More
MIT’s Crispr Guy Braves Enemy Territory at UC Berkeley
Italy’s Etna Volcano Throws Lava Bombs in Its First Big Eruption of 2017
California Needs Atmospheric Rivers. But Like, Not This Many
SpaceX Plans to Launch Humans Around the Moon in 2018
Inside the Extreme Machine That Mimics Bombs and Black Holes
7 Earth-Like Worlds Orbit a Star So Cool, You Didn’t Know It Existed
Forget Weather Apps: Measure the Wind Yourself With an Old Electric Motor
A Wet Winter Is Overwhelming California’s Ancient Infrastructure
Flying at Light Speed Is Pretty Much Impossible—Unless You’re Han Solo
How to Avoid Getting Tricked into Assassinating Someone
Why Is Oroville a Big Deal? Look at All the Places That Need Its Water
A Patent Decision on Crispr Gene Editing Favors MIT
How Does a $575 Life-Saving Drug Jump to $4,500? Blame a Perverse System
Robo-Telescopes Capture the Last Gasp of a Dying Star
How Much Energy Does Iron Fist Pack Into His Superpowered Punch?
Squid Communicate With a Secret, Skin-Powered Alphabet
Earth’s Best Defense Against Killer Asteroids Needs Cash
The Secret to Running a Faster Marathon? Slow Down
Physicists, Lasers, and an Airplane: Taking Aim at Quantum Cryptography
A Blackjack Superstar Explains the Odds of the Historic Patriots Win
Doctors and Patients Reel After Trump’s Immigration Ban
Spill-Proof Cups Aren’t Magic. They’re Physics!
Ever Had a Really Long Acid Trip? Now Science Knows Why
Trump’s Muslim Ban Isn’t Just Inhumane—It’ll Make America Dumber
So You Wanna Get Into Physics. Here Are Three Tips and Tricks
First Human-Pig Chimera Is a Step Toward Custom Organs
How Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative
Sorry, But Speed Reading Won’t Help You Read More
It’s Time to Stand Up for the Climate—and for Civilization
Soft Robot Exosuits Will Give You Springier Steps
Physics Explains How (But Not Why) Humans Can Throw Washing Machines
Why It’s Impossible to Predict When That Giant Antarctic Ice Sheet Will Split
Did LeBron James Flop? Here’s What Physics Says
The Man in the Zebra Suit Knows the Secret of the Stripes
Think Exercise Is Hard? Try Training Like a Nike Super-Athlete
Don’t You Dare Try to Teach Science Without Building Models
To Understand PTSD, Send Scientists to War
Don’t Turn Earth Into Venus, Warns NASA Ex-Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan
Let’s Learn Some Physics Playing With Compound Pulleys
NASA’s Newest Robots Will Spy on Mysterious Lil Asteroids
The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts Only Gets More Beautiful From Here
California’s Huge Storm Could Cause Disastrous Melting in the Mountains
WIRED’s Required Science Reading From 2016
How Long Would It Take to Scale a Mountain in a Human-Powered Chairlift?
Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Your Cosmetics
Vote for the 2016 Pliny for Volcanic Event of the Year
SpaceX’s Year of Fiery Triumphs and Explosive Failure
The Mysterious Virus That Could Cause Obesity
WIRED’s Guide to Turning Your Kids Into Masterful Makers
How Science Uncovered $80 Million of Fine Art Forgeries
Let’s-a-Go: The Physics of Jumping in Super Mario Run
Here’s How Much That Lego Brick You Stepped on Is Worth
Why Do Dogs Love Yoga Mats So Much?
Civil War Turns Syria’s Doctors Into Masters of Improvisation
Thousands of Invisible Oil Spills Are Destroying The Gulf
A Swarm of Earthquakes Shakes Mount St. Helens
Inside the Hunt for a Ghost Particle
John Glenn, First US Astronaut to Orbit Earth, Has Died at 95
SpaceX Says It’s Ready for Liftoff Again. The FAA Begs to Differ
NASA’s Power Supply Mistake on the ISS Was Totally Avoidable
Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Ran a Massive Climate Experiment
Magnets Aren’t Miracles, But Solar Flares Burst With Magic
Dozens of Earthquakes Rattle a Chilean Volcano, Raising Alerts
New Zealand, the Kardashians, and the Battle to Control Manuka Honey
How Humans Can Force the Machines to Play Fair
No, Gotham, That’s Not How Tightropes Work
Blood Diseases Could Show Crispr’s Potential as Therapy
Why Japan’s 6.9 Quake Wasn’t 2011 All Over Again
Nobody Knows Where This Big Raft of Pumice Came From
Record Temperatures Are Robbing the Arctic Of Its Winter
The Physics of Throwing a Starship Off a Cliff to Make It Fly
Apple Pay Will Change the Way Your Brain Thinks About Buying Things
China Used Crispr to Fight Cancer in a Real, Live Human
The Biologist Trying to Make the First Pregnancy Test for Sharks
You Can’t Just Link Batteries Willy Nilly and Expect Everything to Be OK
Can’t Imagine Shapes in 4 Dimensions? Just Print Them Out
Legal Weed Has Arrived. Get Ready for the Budweiser of Bud
To Build A Viable HIV Vaccine, Start from the Molecule Up
A Groundbreaking 30-Year Old Evolutionary Experiment Is Still Going Strong
2016’s Election Data Hero Isn’t Nate Silver. It’s Sam Wang
How NASA Will Choose Astronauts for Its Incredible Journey to Mars
Physics Says This Is the Best Way to Deal With Hot Coffee
A Material From Shapeshifting Planes Could Heal Human Flesh
The Dismal Science of the Standing Rock Pipeline Protests
Electron Microscopes Can Finally See in Wonderful Color
How NASA Got Every Last Piece of Pluto Data Down From New Horizons
Molten Salt Reactors Could Soon Help Power Earth—And One Day Mars
The Lava That Doesn’t Erupt Anymore
China wants a Moon base, but first it needs two people to survive 30 days in space
Facing Climate Change, Tanzania Can’t Afford to Fear GM Crops
Obama Geeks Out Over a Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm That ‘Feels’
If Billionaires Fund Your Research, Don’t Take Public Money
MacGyver’s Body-Bag Freefall Might Actually Work. Physics Says So
One Great Way to Reduce Gun Violence? A Whole Lot of Data
Cholera in Haiti Isn’t Just Bad News—It’s Not Going Away
Japan’s Mount Aso Had a Yuge Eruption. Yuge!
Don’t Get Shaken Up Over California’s Newly Discovered Fault
Florida’s Beaches Have a Problem, and Hurricane Matthew Ain’t Helping
Farmers Are Manipulating Microbiomes to Help Crops Grow
Blue Origin’s Escape Pod Worked, and, Bonus! The Rocket Didn’t Go Kaboom
Hawaii’s Mysterious Coral Reefs Turn Out to Be Super Weird
An Ode to the Rosetta Spacecraft as It Flings Itself Into a Comet
House Republicans Are Trying to Blackball the Climate Investigation into Exxon
The Government’s Top Financial Regulator Is Investigating ExxonMobil
Elon Musk and SpaceX Announce a Plan to Colonize Mars and Save Humanity
IBM Just Made It Easier to Build Apps That Harness the Weather
The US May Not Be Able to Hit Its Ambitious Climate Goal
Jeff Bezos’ New Rocket Could Send the First People to Mars
Want to Be a Good Science Communicator? You Have to Build Bridges
Spraying Mosquitoes by Plane Ain’t Perfect, But It’s the Best We’ve Got for Zika
SpaceX Rocket Explosion Sets Facebook’s Internet Expansion in Africa Back
How Lightning Can Kill 300 Reindeer With One Strike
Cluster of Big Earthquakes Rattles Iceland’s Katla Volcano
Genes Might Be Helping the Tasmanian Devil Fight Off Face Cancer
The Mystery of How Cancer Cells Barrel Through Your Body
This Aquanaut Is Defining the Next Era of Spaceflight
Instagram Probably Can’t Predict Depression. GPS, Though…
Lava Flows Added 5 Acres to Hawaii’s Shoreline This Month
Aliens in Orbit? Probably Not. $100K on a Kickstarter to Check? Oh, Sure
A Magical Mushroom Powder Blocks Bitterness in Food
The Feds Just Made It Easier to Do Research on Weed
How to Succeed in the Asteroid Business Without Really Mining
If You Want a Superstar Horse, Start by Hacking Its DNA
How Can California Cut Methane Emissions if Cows Keep Cutting the Cheese?
The Price of Zika? About $4 Million Per Child
How That Chucklehead Climbed Trump Tower Without Splattering
The Untold Story of Neuroscience’s Most Famous Brain
Sorry, Folks. The LHC Didn’t Find a New Particle After All
Crafty Ideas to Make Drone Deliveries Work for Everybody
Germs Are Magic and Other Things We Learned From Ed Yong’s New Book
Crap’s Spontaneously Combusting in Upstate New York