Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.
Research shows the soaring costs hint at widespread, unpriced risk as the global climate warms, with states like California, Florida and Louisiana hit hardest.
Unloved buildings turn to ruin, leading to a deluge of construction waste worldwide. Designer Thomas Heatherwick tells WIRED why cities need to prioritize human health and joy in architecture.
Your pets can already eat a chewable tablet for tick prevention. Now, a pill that paralyzes and kills ticks has shown positive results in a small human trial.
The Earth is in short supply of helium-3. The lunar surface may hold the answer.
Kongjian Yu pioneered China’s “sponge city” concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead of fighting it. Metropolises all over the world are following suit.
Around 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the latest escalation in a surprising culture war.
On Pi Day we answer the burning question: Is there any world in which pi does not go on forever?
Rising temperatures are a threat regardless of where you live on the planet—they’re just dangerous in different ways.
The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs.
When everyone's hooking their brains up to computers, we'll need BCI surgeons to install the hardware.
Meet the amazing azolla, a nutritious fern that grows like crazy, capturing carbon in the process. Could it be a food—and fertilizer and biofuel—of the future?
Rainforests in South America are burning this year faster than ever before, setting the course for a collapse of the Amazon in the coming decades.
Our in-house physics whiz explains how a heat pump can warm your home without burning fossil fuels.
Erasing key information during training allows machine learning models to learn new languages faster and more easily.
Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.
Sex differences explain some of the gaping health inequalities between men and women—but a lot of the time, it’s sexism.
Hundreds of boosters over a 29-month period had little effect on the one person who tried it.
Coastal land is subsiding. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to inundation by 2050.