Science A Buzzkill Physics Discovery, a Deadly Miracle Drug, and More NewsWIRED - Condé Nast A new physics discovery kills hope of the unknown, a drug said to cure opioid addiction comes with a caveat, and a competitive videogamer is out to …
Protons Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope DiesWIRED - Condé Nast In 2010, physicists in Germany reported that they had made an exceptionally precise measurement of the size of the proton, the positively charged …
Science How Rich Donors Like Epstein (and Others) Undermine ScienceWIRED - Condé Nast Imagine a billionaire with an abiding interest in science, but also in having sex with young girls. He’s famous, our billionaire, and associates with …
Science Super Planetary-Motion Smackdown: Kepler v. NewtonWIRED - Condé Nast Science is always an unfinished project. That’s what makes it so much fun. The process—collecting data, building models to explain how the world …
Science Mass Graves in Russia Tell the Grim Story of Mongol InvasionWIRED - Condé Nast Archaeologists excavated part of the old city center of Yaroslavl, Russia, between 2005 and 2010 as part of an effort to restore its cathedral. …
Tropical Cyclones Meet a Mad Scientist Who Flies Into HurricanesWIRED - Condé Nast The anticipation of a hurricane is excruciating. Born in a hurricane nursery (actual term) off the coast of Africa, a storm marches across the …
Plastic The Riddle, and Controversy, of All That Missing PlasticWIRED - Condé Nast Humans unleash mountains of plastic into the sea each year, and that rate is only accelerating as plastic production grows around the world. The …
CRISPR How to Practice Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted WorldWIRED - Condé Nast On Monday evening, I spoke with Bina Venkataraman, the author of the new book, The Optimist’s Telescope, at an event organized by The New America …
Science Chinese Scientists Try to Cure One Man's HIV With CrisprWIRED - Condé Nast Until that moment, scientists had only hoped to control the insidious disease, through drugs like PrEP that cut down on transmission or …
Science A New Water Vapor Discovery in Space, SFO Delays, and More NewsWIRED - Condé Nast Scientists made a groundbreaking exoplanet discovery, San Francisco is experiencing major flight delays, and we take a look back at how people …
Science Scientists Find Water Vapor on the Most Habitable Exoplanet YetWIRED - Condé Nast “This is data that we acquired and in some ways we had done all the work," Benneke says. "The UCL team decided to just take our data and write their …
Science The Best Place to Make Undersea Cables Might Be ... in SpaceWIRED - Condé Nast ZBLAN is different. It’s not for NASA. Discovered in the 1970s, ZBLAN is a strange and fickle material. A type of glass composed of heavy metal …
Science Sean Carroll Thinks We All Exist on Multiple WorldsWIRED - Condé Nast In the sixties, the physicist Richard Feynman wrote, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” Today, the situation …
Science Three Ways to Fix the Drug Industry's Rampant DysfunctionWIRED - Condé Nast Based on its testing, Valisure rejects about 10 percent of the drug batches it sees, for various reasons. The FDA requires generic drugs to be …
Science The Myth of Processed Foods, an Amazon Walkout, and More News From TodayWIRED - Condé Nast The stigma around processed foods is all wrong, Amazon employees are walking off the job, and millions of phone numbers were left exposed. Here's the …
Science Unusual Fluids Flip, Twirl, and Redefine How Liquids WorkWIRED - Condé Nast When not confined to a container, liquids will splatter, dribble, and ooze. They shape-shift into their surroundings as puddles and streams, largely …
food news Let's All Just Chill About Processed FoodsWIRED - Condé Nast You are you and I am me because of processed foods, because our ancestors learned how to cook meat and make bread and, perhaps more importantly, …
Play buttonBlack Holes Are We All Wrong About Black Holes?WIRED - Condé Nast In the early 1970s, people studying general relativity, our modern theory of gravity, noticed rough similarities between the properties of black …
Science Is It OK to Change Hurricane Forecasts With a Sharpie Doodle?WIRED - Condé Nast No. Why is this even a question? You can't just go and alter the predictions of a model because you expected something different. I’m talking, of …
Science (India) A Moon Landing Goes Awry, Apple Opens Up on iOS Hacks, and More NewsWIRED - Condé Nast India has lost contact with its lunar lander, Apple finally speaks out after an iPhone hack, and an electric dump truck has taken over the internet. …
Science India’s Moon Landing May Be DoomedWIRED - Condé Nast India has lost contact with its Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, which was scheduled to land near the lunar south pole on Friday. The landing proceeded …
Science How to Rip a Crazy Skateboard Loop With PhysicsWIRED - Condé Nast Why study physics, you ask? Scroll down, friend. This video of a guy rolling through a 360-degree vertical loop at a skatepark—cool as ice, with no …
Science (India) India’s Chandrayaan-2 Is Ready to Touch Down Near the Moon’s South PoleWIRED - Condé Nast For the last two weeks, India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been lowering its orbit around the moon as it prepares for India’s first attempt at a …
Science Retreat? Pish. Democrats Dare Not Speak Climate Change's ‘R’ WordWIRED - Condé Nast “Retreat, hell!” Major General Oliver Prince Smith once said during the Korean War. “We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different …
Science How to Solve a Rubik's Cube, Step by StepWIRED - Condé Nast Earlier this year, while putting together a video about the world’s fastest solvers of the Rubik’s Cube, I decided to devote some time to learning to …
Energy This Huge Electric Dump Truck Never Needs to Plug InWIRED - Condé Nast There's an electric dump truck that's all over the internet right now: It's called the eDumper. What's so great about an electric dump truck? Beyond …
Climate CNN Climate Town Hall:WIRED - Condé Nast Wednesday evening during CNN’s climate change town hall, the gods of politicking looked down on Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and they smiled. …
Vaping Hurricane Dorian Science, a Vaping Mouse Experiment, and More News From TodayWIRED - Condé Nast The science behind Hurricane Dorian, why vaping is killing mice, and how a Bugatti became the first production car to surpass 300 miles per hour. …
Science Vaping May Hamper the Lungs' Ability to Fend off InfectionsWIRED - Condé Nast A lot of otherwise healthy-seeming high schoolers and young adults are getting very sick. Since June, 28 cases of a mystery respiratory illness have …
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