Technology

In the pandemic’s early days, government-backed public health apps acquired millions of users—a ready-made audience developers are...

Genomic analysis of ancient remains has shed light on the origins of the black death and offers insights into the coevolution of humans...

Hesitancy, bureaucracy, inequity, and the need to explain new formulas could slow down vaccine delivery to the last unprotected group.

Spraying aerosols and sucking carbon out of the air would bring down temperatures, yes. But the unintended consequences of geoengineering...

Over 100 million women are estimated to use oral contraceptives, but studies on the pill’s mental health effects raise more questions...

After three aborted attempts, engineers successfully completed a practice countdown that included filling the tanks with liquid oxygen...

Remote sensing systems can struggle to spot high waters, especially in stormy weather or at night. Synthetic aperture radar offers...

Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.

WIRED spoke with the agency’s former deputy administrator about how she architected a major shift to working with the fledging private...

Climate change and natural variability are making 2022 a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and...