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SpaceX Launches—and Crashes—Its Starship Mars Rocket
The test flight didn’t come close to the edge of space, but the prototype was a big step toward the rocket’s first orbital mission.
Bees Paint Animal Poo on Their Homes to Repel Giant Hornets
What at first seems like terrible housekeeping turns out to be a clever ploy to fend off huge predators, which can otherwise easily...
The 8 Best Science Books to Read or Gift This Holiday Season
Here are the WIRED science team's top new picks for this winter.
Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?
Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it...
The Perfect Strategy to Fight Covid-19 Is … Everything?
It’d be great to know which public health interventions against the coronavirus have the biggest bang for the buck. But nobody does.
Let’s Unpack the Pendulum Rocket Fallacy
And explore how it relates to Iron Man’s flight strategy.
Who Will We Be When This Is All Over?
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought incalculable suffering and trauma. But it also offers ways for people—and even societies—to change...
The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding
Physicists are checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores, or even...
High-Energy X-Rays Reveal the Secrets of Ancient Egyptian...
Analysis of 12 papyrus fragments from the Tebtunis Temple suggests that certain paint techniques were developed and used well before...
Physicists Are Closer to Knowing the Size of a Proton …...
A new and potentially improved measurement of a proton’s charge radius brings scientists closer to an answer. But the issue is still...
