Technology
In Defense of the Rat
Rats are less pestilent and more lovable than you might think. Can humans learn to live with them?
Amazon Is Going to Fill the Sky With Satellites. Astronomers...
Large constellations of satellites interfere with telescope observations, and Amazon will eventually add another 3,200 of them to...
As Amazon Launches Project Kuiper, Astronomers Debate How...
Large constellations interfere with telescope observations, and Amazon will eventually add another 3,200 satellites to the night sky....
Meet the Next Generation of Doctors—and Their Surgical...
Don't worry, your next surgeon will definitely be a human. But just as medical students are training to use a scalpel, they're also...
What Do We Owe the Octopus?
Mounting research suggests that cephalopods experience pain. Now, the National Institutes of Health is considering new animal welfare...
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink...
September's Record-Shattering Heat Was ‘Absolutely Gobsmackingly...
Last month was so hot, scientists are struggling to find words for it.
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Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an...
Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman pioneered the technology that produced a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Next,...
A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain...
Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-sized counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest...
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The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With...
Foam rubber—like the filling inside your couch—produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed...
