Science and reality
Starting around 8 am Eastern time, two American astronauts stepped outside the comfort of the International Space Station and into the emptiness of space.
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They're illegal in Europe and corporatized in the US, but genetically modified food crops might save Latin American farming.
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Can a fertility tracking app really help women get pregnant? Maybe. But we have to be careful when looking at health data and drawing conclusions.
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Changing the mass and size of the pigskin and you'd have a very different game.
The post The Physics of Building a Better Football appeared first on WIRED.
When humans bring the gridiron to Mars, it'll be football, Jim---but not as we know it.
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In a teaser trailer for Star Wars VII, we see a whole bunch of Tie fighters flying overhead. How fast are they moving?
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NASA's Cassini space probe makes its second-to-last passage of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
The post Cassini Is About to Taste the Huge Geysers of Enceladus appeared first on WIRED.
Following a major earthquake, the health care needs begin with trauma care, then disease, and eventually mental health.
The post The Afghan Quake’s True Cost Could Come in the Winter appeared first on WIRED.
The World Health Organization classifies the causes of cancer in a horribly confusing way.
The post Bacon Causes Cancer? Sort of. Not Really. Ish. appeared first on WIRED.
Deeper quakes dissipate their energy over larger areas, and tend to be less destructive than shallow quakes.
The post The Upside of Afghanistan’s Quake: It Struck Deep appeared first on WIRED.