AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. [...]

Can the legal system catch up with climate science?

New estimate: Fossil fuel companies have caused trillions of dollars in damages. [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has begun its mission to map the entire sky in 3D

A space observatory designed to map the entire sky over a period of two years to further our understanding of the early universe has started snapping images. SPHEREx, which launched in early March, go [...]

Blue Origin also wants to put AI data centers in space

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 sat [...]

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it. [...]

NASA resurrects its VIPER moon rover for a 2027 mission with Blue Origin

NASA is apparently giving its ice-scouting moon rover mission another try. The space agency has announced that the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project — which was called [...]

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Also: final Muon g-2 results, an ultrasonic mobile brain imaging helmet, and re-creating Egyptian blue. [...]

Blue Origin landed its recycled New Glenn booster but failed to put payload in orbit

Blue Origin has successfully reused its first-stage New Glenn booster for the first time after it landed in a cloud of smoke and fire on a recovery ship. It marks the second flight and reuse of Never [...]

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

Congressional Democrats host scientists whose grants have been canceled. [...]