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Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was…

A Letter to My Pandemic BabyWIRED StaffScience Latest

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On this week's Get WIRED podcast, an editor captures the bizarre world of 2020 for his unborn daughter.Read More

The Steampunk Rover Concept That Could Help Explore VenusAdam MannScience Latest

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50 years after the first spacecraft touched down on our super hot neighbor (and promptly died), NASA has a plan…

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s OrganismsMatt SimonScience Latest

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Anthropogenic mass—concrete, metal, and other human creations—has grown to be heavier than plants, animals, and microbes combined. Planet Earth is…

The First Americans Are Being Vaccinated. Now, the Hard PartGregory BarberScience Latest

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State and local officials are scrambling to figure out how to inoculate millions—after health care workers and the elderly—against the…

Cops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree SleuthingMegan MolteniScience Latest

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Verogen’s push into public crime labs with genetic genealogy may help solve more cold cases, but it raises concerns about…

How NASA Scrambled to Save OSIRIS-REx From Leaky DisasterChris WrightScience Latest

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The $800 million craft successfully collected precious asteroid material from a near-Earth asteroid. Then it started spilling regolith into space.Read…

Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side EffectsMaryn McKennaScience Latest

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Disinformation could thwart distribution before government messages have a chance to push back. Debunking might turn out to be everyone’s…

Wildfire Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous?Matt SimonScience Latest

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Researchers are putting out a call to study the potential effects of bacteria- and fungi-filled haze on human health.Read More

A New Field Guide for Earth’s Wild MicrobesMonique BrouilletteScience Latest

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The most massive database of microbial gene sequences so far shows that the tree of life is much larger than…