Science and reality
Redirected walking can trick people into believing they’re exploring huge areas when they’ve been walking in circles in a room.
The post You Can’t Walk in a Straight Line—And That’s Great for VR appeared first on WIRED.
Bad news: Norovirus probably spreads through aerosolized vomit.
The post A Vomiting Machine Shows How Viruses Spread in Puke appeared first on WIRED.
The United States' GMO rules never worked well, and new, precise gene-editing techniques are stretching them to the breaking point.
The post New Gene-Editing Techniques Mean a Lot of GMO Loopholes appeared first on WIRED.
WIRED asked a chemist and a water sommelier about why your water tastes funky after a night in the open.
The post Big Question: Why Does Tap Water Go Stale Overnight? appeared first on WIRED.
Getting new ideas from social science into police academy training and thousands of local police departments is a slow endeavor.
The post Police Training Is Seriously Lacking in Actual Science appeared first on WIRED.
Charles Richter made a huge mess of the way that seismologists measure the strength of a quake, and it's making our lives hell.
The post The Way We Measure Earthquakes Is Stupid appeared first on WIRED.
Frozen egg research is so new that the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology just started publishing the stats for frozen donor egg cycles this year.
The post Everything We Still Don’t Know About Egg Freezing appeared first on WIRED.
Virtual reality has a less-than-obvious problem with how your eyes focus called vergence-accommodation conflict.
The post The Obscure Neuroscience Problem That’s Plaguing VR appeared first on WIRED.
Since Wednesday morning, a ribbon of bright orange water has been making its way down the Animas River.
The post The EPA Accidentally Turned This River Toxic—And Orange appeared first on WIRED.
Unchecked pesticide use has long been the status quo in the anything-goes world of illegal weed farming. But as more states legalize marijuana, that will have to change.
The post Nobody Knows What To Do About Pesticides in Legal Marijuana appeared first on WIRED.