Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was…
On this week's Get WIRED podcast, an editor captures the bizarre world of 2020 for his unborn daughter.Read More
50 years after the first spacecraft touched down on our super hot neighbor (and promptly died), NASA has a plan…
Anthropogenic mass—concrete, metal, and other human creations—has grown to be heavier than plants, animals, and microbes combined. Planet Earth is…
State and local officials are scrambling to figure out how to inoculate millions—after health care workers and the elderly—against the…
Verogen’s push into public crime labs with genetic genealogy may help solve more cold cases, but it raises concerns about…
The $800 million craft successfully collected precious asteroid material from a near-Earth asteroid. Then it started spilling regolith into space.Read…
Disinformation could thwart distribution before government messages have a chance to push back. Debunking might turn out to be everyone’s…
Researchers are putting out a call to study the potential effects of bacteria- and fungi-filled haze on human health.Read More
The most massive database of microbial gene sequences so far shows that the tree of life is much larger than…