From water on Mars to a little something called Pluto, WIRED presents the best photos of the cosmos for 2015.
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The Most Dazzling Photos From Space This Year
The Physics Behind Popping Champagne Bottles
Don't just party on New Year's Eve, think about the cool physics that you can see around you.
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Science Fiction That Came to Life This Year
You live in a future that science fiction visionaries imagined years ago.
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Bacon? No, Not My Bacon!
When the World Health Organization says something, you usually listen, so when the WHO classifies processed red meat---like bacon!---as a carcinogen, AHHHHHHHHH.
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Nope, Nuclear Fusion Still Isn’t Here
Physicists have been “a decade away” from nuclear fusion for...decades.
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Bacteria Gain on Last-Resort Antibiotics
After researchers found a colistin-resistance gene in China this year, scientists realized it’s since spread to Europe as well.
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Martin Shkreli Raised Drug Prices Overnight
Martin Shkreli, the hedge fund trader turned pharma bro, angered pretty much every decent person in the world by raising the price for a parasite drug from $13.50 to $750 overnight.
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Theranos Takes a Beating in the Press
The blood testing company was a media darling until a
Wall Street Journal article took Theranos to task for its unreliable tests and unproven technology.
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Sexism Is Still Everywhere in Science
Science certainly did not solve sexism this year, but scientists started talking about it more openly and loudly and, oh, a famous man actually lost his job over it.
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NASA’s EM Space Drive Is Still Not a Thing
2015 was not the year scientists disproved the conservation of momentum so, uh, 2015 is also not the year NASA figured out interstellar travel.
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