Science & Cosmology

To Clean Up Space Junk, Some People Grabbed a Net and Harpoon

The latest efforts to corral space debris employ a wide-ranging bag of tricks including orbital…

https://www.wired.com/story/to-clean-up-space-junk-some-people-grabbed-a-net-and-harpoon

The scientific community is at a loss over how, and whether, to publish the controversial…

https://www.wired.com/story/how-do-you-publish-the-work-of-a-scientific-villain

Scientists have discovered a vast subterranean ecosystem of microbial life deep underground, stretching our sense…

https://www.wired.com/story/deep-carbon-observatory-subterranean-ecosystems

Is your tree robust to cold? Do its needles cling to their branches? Christmas tree…

https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-of-growing-a-perfect-christmas-tree

A warp-speed history of our quest for cheap energy, from prehistoric hunters to climate change.…

https://www.wired.com/story/an-energy-evolution-from-delicious-to-dirty-to-almost-free

The Thwaites Glacier is crumbling into the sea. Now scientists must answer two questions: When…

https://www.wired.com/story/antarctica-thwaites-glacier-breaking-point

A weird thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum physics by calling into…

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-quantum-paradox-flags-errors-in-our-view-of-reality

No one really knows how drunkenness works, and hangovers are poorly understood, no matter what…

https://www.wired.com/story/know-it-alls-what-causes-hangovers-how-can-i-avoid-them

Chinese scientists and regulators alike are censuring the rogue biophysicist who allowed two Crispr-edited babies…

https://www.wired.com/story/even-china-roundly-condemns-editing-the-genes-of-babies

Go behind the scenes with Spaceflight Industries, the space travel agency of sorts that coordinated…

https://www.wired.com/story/the-spacex-clown-car-launch-actually-workedheres-how