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You might think of it as the force that slows things down, but you literally couldn't get anywhere without it.

The puny insect can withstand forces 39,000 times its body weight. Scientists just discovered its super-strength secret—which could...

Finally, there’s a better way to find approximate solutions to the notorious optimization problem, often used to test the limits of...

Nagging, giving unsolicited advice, and “ecopiety” are out. But there are better ways to get people to adopt green habits.

An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that into a global...

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that into a global...

The CDC put out a central playbook for how to distribute the shots. But how states will address these guidelines is anything but uniform.

WIRED paid a visit to NASA's first probe designed to protect Earth from killer asteroids. It launches next year.

Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good...