Technology
Hope on the Front Lines of the Drug Overdose Crisis
In 2021, the first overdose prevention center opened in the United States. WIRED spoke to its director about what “harm reduction”...
The Big Bang's Afterglow Reveals Invisible Cosmic Structures
Scientists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.
A Parasite Is Killing Sea Otters. Is Cat Poop to Blame?
In California, the bodies of four furry swimmers tested positive for a strain of toxoplasmosis first seen in mountain lions.
NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
With new satellites and programs, the agency is tackling air quality from all angles—for the health of people and the planet.
America’s Tornadoes Are Evolving, Fast
Scientists are hesitant to blame climate change, but varying weather conditions are causing new and troubling tornado patterns.
How Much Detail of the Moon Can Your Smartphone Really...
What’s the smallest lunar object a phone camera lens could resolve from Earth? Here’s what the physics of light tells us about shooting...
Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’
For the first time, researchers transferred them to the wombs of female monkeys, where the embryo-like structures produced a response...
The Arctic’s Permafrost-Obsessed Methane Detectives
The Far North is thawing, unleashing clouds of planet-heating gas. Scientists rely on an arsenal of tech to sniff out just how nasty...
The Therapy Part of Psychedelic Therapy Is a Mess
There’s little evidence to prove how necessary or helpful many of the accepted norms in psychedelic-assisted therapy are—and some...
The ‘Little Bang’ Helping Physicists Study the Infant Universe
By recreating an early state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, scientists hope to understand the conditions that made the universe...