Technology
How Lori Garver Launched NASA’s Commercial Space Partnerships
WIRED spoke with the agency’s former deputy administrator about how she architected a major shift to working with the fledging private...
This Year’s Extreme Weather Is Just Getting Started
Climate change and natural variability are making 2022 a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and...
A Photographer Captures Earth as a Strange New World
Inspired by an 18th-century naturalist, Christopher Edward Rodriguez set out to document our climate-changed planet with fresh eyes.
Extreme Weather in 2022 is Just Getting Started
Climate change and natural variability are making this a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and...
What Is the Ideal Gas Law?
Without it, it would be impossible to inflate a balloon or a tire. But understanding how it works requires a little bit of physics...
A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture
Jared Duker Lichtman proved a long-standing conjecture relating prime numbers to a broad class of “primitive” sets. To his adviser,...
Some Scientists Coined a New Name for Summer: ‘Danger Season’
Hurricanes, heat, fires, smoke, drought. Is it time to stop making the hottest part of the year seem cool?
How the Sugars In Spit Tame the Body’s Unruly Fungi
Mucus keeps the microbiome healthy. Now scientists have clues about how it stops good microbes from going bad.
Black Carbon From Rocket Launches Will Heat the Atmosphere
Researchers say that the rising number of space launches around the world will warm parts of the atmosphere and thin the ozone layer.
Can Democracy Include a World Beyond Humans?
A truly planetary politics would extend decisionmaking to animals, ecosystems, and potentially AI.
