Technology
What Should You Do About Holiday Gatherings and Covid-19?
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, there's no perfectly safe way to socialize. But here are some tips on how to talk to your relatives about...
These Oceanographers Want to Turn Marine Slime Into Drugs
A California team will use a robotic vehicle to study tiny seafloor creatures, hoping they might yield new compounds to fight viruses...
What Comes After the International Space Station?
Funding for the world's premiere orbital laboratory won't last forever. Its end could usher in a new era of commercial space stations.
Boston Dynamics’ Robots Won’t Take Our Jobs … Yet
On this week’s Get WIRED podcast, writer Matt Simon talks about Spot the dog and SpaceX with Marc Raibert.
There May Be Far More Water on the Moon Than NASA Thought
A new pair of studies reveals that the resource isn’t limited to large shadowy craters. That's good news for the upcoming crewed missions.
Boston Dynamics' Robots Won't Take Our Jobs ... Yet
On this week's Get WIRED podcast, writer Matt Simon talks about Spot the dog and SpaceX with Marc Raibert.
Pandemic Quiet Is Helping Humans Eavesdrop on Rare Dolphins
Researchers are hoping to use the opportunity to get a better handle on the language of Australia's endangered Burrunan dolphins.
Mark Kelly’s Been To Space. Can He Make it to Capitol Hill?
Mark Kelly isn’t the first former NASA astronaut to run for office, but if he’s elected he’ll be the only one to make it to Congress...
Scientists Discover the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
Physicists finally achieved the long-sought goal, but there’s a catch: Their compound requires crushing pressures to keep from falling...
Russia's Laptev Sea Should Have Started to Freeze by Now
Normally, the 'birthplace of ice' freezes by late October. For the first time in recorded history, it hasn't. That could have knock-on...
