Technology
How to Build a Spacecraft to Save the World
WIRED paid a visit to NASA's first probe designed to protect Earth from killer asteroids. It launches next year.
What Forest Floor Playgrounds Teach Us about Kids and Germs
Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good...
Wild Predators Are Relying More on Our Food—and Pets
A new study shows that some big carnivores are getting up to half their diet from sources like trash, crops, or small mammals that...
See Earth Transform Like You're a Time-Traveling Astronaut
The new photo book Overview Timelapse shows the startling ways humanity is changing the planet, from lithium mines to the ravages...
This Is My Brain on Salvia
I loaned my head to the world’s first fMRI study on the effects of salvinorin A, a potent psychedelic. Here’s what it revealed.
‘Meteorite’ Is a Love Letter to Space Rocks
For centuries, scientists thought meteorites were too fantastical to exist. A new book reveals that they hold even more mysteries.
What Would Happen if All the Antarctic Ice Melted?
It … let's just say it would not be good. Here, let's do the math.
AI Is Throwing Battery Development Into Overdrive
Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding it up by...
New York Is Trying Targeted Lockdowns. Will It Curb Covid?
Instead of shutting down all of New York City, this time officials are taking a block-by-block approach to home in on areas with increasing...
The Effort to Build the Mathematical Library of the Future
A community of mathematicians is using software called Lean to build a new digital repository. They hope it represents where their...
