Science and reality
Without rain, California's farmers have been forced to suck water from the ground. But they've pulled so much that parts of the state are sinking at incredible rates.
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Fans are a great way to cool you off on a hot day, but they don't cool everything off.
The post Why Fans Don’t Always Make Things Cooler appeared first on WIRED.
WIRED spoke to Steve Silberman about how the modern world came to recognize autistic people.
The post How Autistic People Helped Shape the Modern World appeared first on WIRED.
A group at Ohio State University says they've made the most complete replica of a 5-week-old human brain from stem cells. You shouldn't know about it yet.
The post That Human Brain in a Dish? Not Ready for Prime Time 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.
NASA's Science Visualization Studio used two modeling methods to show how oceanic garbage patches form.
The post This Video Shows How Garbage Patches Form in the Ocean 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.
You hear the terms all the time, but what is meant by an active, dormant or extinct volcano?
The post How We Tell if a Volcano Is Active, Dormant, or Extinct appeared first on WIRED.
A new paper pretty much rules out the notion that periodic comet impacts could be replenishing Pluto's nitrogen atmosphere.
The post Something Deep Inside Pluto Is Replenishing Its Atmosphere appeared first on WIRED.
The FDA approved the first drug in the United States that can be prescribed to treat a woman's low sex drive. But critics aren't so sure we need it.
The post FDA Approves the First ‘Female Viagra’ appeared first on WIRED.