Science & Cosmology

SpaceX Brings Astronauts Home Safely in a Historic First

That’s a wrap on SpaceX’s crewed demo mission, which clears the way for the company…

https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-brings-astronauts-home-safely-in-a-historic-first

Modern scholars have only been able to speculate about where the huge stones came from—until…

https://www.wired.com/story/archaeologists-have-found-the-source-of-stonehenges-boulders

A new model of photosynthesis points to an evolutionary principle governing light-harvesting organisms that might…

https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-plants-green-the-answer-might-work-on-any-planet

Social insects cooperate to curb the spread of pathogens. Maybe their systems of behavior can…

https://www.wired.com/story/what-can-ants-and-bees-teach-us-about-containing-disease

Underwater “sexual parasitism” between male and female allows two bodies to become one. Now we…

https://www.wired.com/story/the-anglerfish-deleted-its-immune-system-to-fuse-with-its-mate

The movement of demonstrators echoes the fluid collective responses of the animal world, as groups…

https://www.wired.com/story/what-the-science-of-animal-networks-reveals-about-protests

The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that’s just one of…

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-in-the-us-is-an-information-catastrophe

NASA’s new rover is its biggest, most autonomous yet and may lead us to the…

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-nasa-launch-its-new-perseverance-mars-rover

In 2015, Oak Ridge National Laboratory produced the first plutonium fuel in the US in…

https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-mars-rover-will-be-powered-by-us-made-plutonium

The director of NIAID talks about vaccines, school reopenings, hostility toward science, and the lessons…

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-fauci-explains-why-the-us-still-hasnt-beaten-covid