Science and reality
Out today is Poultry Suite, a stunning photo book that catalogs some seriously impressive chicken breeds.
The post Humans Made Chickens Look Ridiculous. Really Ridiculous appeared first on WIRED.
If you wanted to pick the most volcanically hazardous place to live on Earth today, it would be hard to beat Naples, Italy.
The post Volcanic Rumbles Mean Magma Might Be Seeping Under Naples appeared first on WIRED.
Climate change will kill off plenty of species...leaving room for new ones to adapt and thrive.
The post Climate Change Means One World’s Death and Another’s Birth appeared first on WIRED.
He transformed modern medicine's understanding of the brain. And he rethought neurology---and his memory---from the inside out.
The post The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks appeared first on WIRED.
More of North America’s land is covered by rivers than we thought, according to a new map.
The post New Map Plots North America’s Bounty of Rivers appeared first on WIRED.
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke does a one-armed handstand with Yoda balanced on his foot. Using this, I can estimate the mass of Yoda.
The post I Used Physics to Calculate How Much Yoda Weighs appeared first on WIRED.
California's long-term lack of rain isn’t what keeps engineers, economists, and state water planners awake at night.
The post California’s Katrina Is Coming appeared first on WIRED.
Shark skin isn't just for suits (or sharks). It can prevent hospital-transmitted infections.
The post Think Like a Tree: How Shark Skin Can Save Us From Superbugs appeared first on WIRED.
The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies.
The post Dark Matter May Be More Complex Than Physicists Thought appeared first on WIRED.
Space photos of the week, August 23–29.
The post Space Photos of the Week: A Nebula Becomes a Butterfly appeared first on WIRED.