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It’s Happening! NASA Is About to Touch an Asteroid
After years of studying Bennu, the spacecraft will make its first attempt at a sample collection on Tuesday.
Babies May Drink Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day
Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means for infants’ health,...
How the Venus Flytrap ‘Remembers’ When It Captures Prey
The carnivorous plant is believed to have something akin to a short-term "memory." A team of scientists has uncovered new details...
The Case for Reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps
If the US brought back the Great Depression’s massive worker program, it could put millions of Americans back to work—and help stave...
Your Brain Prefers Happy Endings. That’s Not Always Smart
People tend to focus on whether an experience ends on an up note or a sour one, even if it leads us to make bad decisions. A new study...
The New Science of Wildfire Prediction
On this week's Get WIRED podcast, writer Dan Duane dives into the inevitability of fires in the west and how better models would help...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Touch an Asteroid
After years of studying Bennu, the spacecraft will make its first attempt at a sample collection on Tuesday.
Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles...
Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means for infants’ health,...
It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again
In the early days, we furiously scrubbed, afraid we could get sick from the virus lingering on objects and surfaces. What do we know...
Can Placebos Work—Even When Patients Know They’re Fake?
Researchers showed that a saline spray “treatment” reduced people’s emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray...
