Science and reality
MAVEN is a spacecraft on a mission to find out what happened to the red planet's lost water, atmosphere, and magnetic field.
The post Newest Mars Probe Reveals Clues to the Planet’s Watery Past appeared first on WIRED.
We have plenty of nuclear fission reactors, but not a successful fusion reactor. What's the difference?
The post Nuclear Fission Works Fine, But Not Fusion. Here’s Why appeared first on WIRED.
Indonesia's Barujari crater at Rinjani has been erupting for the first time since 2015, throwing enough ash in the air to close airports and cancel flights.
The post Eruptions at Rinjani Cancel Flights Across Indonesia appeared first on WIRED.
The editors of the academic journal Lingua quit to protest high fees from publisher Elsevier.
The post Editors of the Journal Lingua Protest-Quit in Battle for Open Access appeared first on WIRED.
How do you tout the benefits of a technology when the well is already so poisoned?
The post Biotech’s New Plan: Nobody Say ‘GMO’ appeared first on WIRED.
By viewing the sun in extreme ultraviolet light, the Solar Dynamics Observatory captures the star's invisible explosions.
The post Watch the Sun Erupt in a Symphony of Solar Storms appeared first on WIRED.
What climbing gear will get you to a V8? Try a prosthetic leg.
The post Amazing Tricked-Out Prosthetic Fakes How a Leg Really Works appeared first on WIRED.
New Horizons' earthbound navigators need to steer the craft to a near collision course with the Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69.
The post How NASA Is Steering New Horizons Toward a Tiny Space Rock in the Kuiper Belt appeared first on WIRED.
The Exothermic Entomology Award, for exceptionally bad judgement in killing invertebrates with fire.
The post Hey Guess What Killing Bugs With Fire Is Still a Bad Idea appeared first on WIRED.
Yemen's geography and politics make it even more vulnerable to the rare tropical cyclone that just made landfall.
The post Yemen’s Rare Cyclone Puts the Country Underwater appeared first on WIRED.