Science and reality
Japan announced this week that it would resume hunting minke whales in defiance of an international moratorium. Why?
The post The Japanese Barely Eat Whale. So Why Do They Keep Whaling? appeared first on WIRED.
One doesn’t just set off a nuclear weapon. So nuclear physicists are dissecting old bomb test footage to uncover the weapons' secrets.
The post Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets appeared first on WIRED.
When Chinese scientists announced in April they had edited human embryos using a new genetic tool called Crispr, the headlines blared “designer babies” and the wider world woke up to Crispr’s power.
The post Crispr Is Getting Better. Now It’s Time to Ask the Hard Ethical Questions appeared first on WIRED.
uBiome wants to shift its business from direct-to-consumer kits to clinical tests ordered by doctors.
The post Microbiome Startup uBiome Will Sequence Poop for the CDC appeared first on WIRED.
The drugmaker used only animal studies to prove that vaccine works.
The post This Vaccine Can Protect You From Anthrax—After Exposure appeared first on WIRED.
How gene drives force a gene to spread through a population.
The post The ‘Gene Drive’ That Builds a Malaria-Proof Mosquito appeared first on WIRED.
Nola's death is a real-time window on extinction.
The post Nola the White Northern Rhino’s Death Leaves Just Three on Earth appeared first on WIRED.
An international report on the Ebola epidemic comes out just two days after the virus reappeared in Liberia.
The post We Blew It With Ebola. Scientists Don’t Want That to Happen Again appeared first on WIRED.
A new startup wants to make DNA writing cheaper and faster.
The post Cheap DNA Sequencing Is Here. Writing DNA Is Next appeared first on WIRED.
A (somewhat) premature obituary for the last line antibiotic.
The post A Once Powerful Antibiotic Goes the Way of All Flesh appeared first on WIRED.