Science & Cosmology

The Troubled End of an Ethically Compromised Booze Study

NIH pulled the plug on what would have been a grand experiment in “healthy” drinking.…

https://www.wired.com/story/the-troubled-end-of-an-ethically-compromised-booze-study

You could practice out on the pitch, or you could use a numerical calculation. Source…

https://www.wired.com/story/lets-use-physics-to-model-a-curving-soccer-ball

Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum…

https://www.wired.com/story/finally-a-problem-only-quantum-computers-will-ever-be-able-to-solve

New offers from consumer genetic testing companies raise more questions than they answer. Source Link:…

https://www.wired.com/story/family-dna-testing-at-the-border-would-be-an-ethical-quagmire

Researchers get a robotic prosthesis to feel pain. But is that something amputees would even…

https://www.wired.com/story/pain-is-weird-making-bionic-arms-feel-pain-is-even-weirder

The question now is: Can it loft its rockets inside the newly opened launch window,…

https://www.wired.com/story/its-business-time-for-rocket-lab-launcher-of-small-satellites

What an analysis of 800 million tweets and 7 billion words published to Twitter between…

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-diurnal-trends

A new NASA program aims to turn the gaze of small, traditionally Earth-monitoring satellites outward…

https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-smallsats-look-at-spaaaaace

A coating doubles the ripeness window of avocados. How? By supercharging the defenses that evolution…

https://www.wired.com/story/apeel

With help from the Gates Foundation, Oxitec aims to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the…

https://www.wired.com/story/oxitec-gates-self-limiting-mosquitoes