2025-05-05

SpaceX's Rocket Launch Site in Texas Is Now Its Own City

The site is where SpaceX conducts the launches of its Starship rockets, which are at the center of its ambitions to launch missions to the moon and Mars. [...]

2025-05-05

Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique morphology and genetic structure may be useful for the development of bioelectroni [...]

2025-05-05

FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas

As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to survivors in disaster areas, per a memo obtained by WIRED. [...]

2025-05-05

How Mexico’s Fishing Refuges Are Fighting Back Against Poaching

Following inaction from the government, fishing communities and conservationists are taking it upon themselves to set up and monitor no-catch zones to combat species depletion caused by overfishing. [...]

2025-05-05

On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk

Tropical cyclone track forecasts are 75 percent more accurate than they were in 1990. [...]

2025-05-04

SpaceX’s Texas HQ, Starbase, is officially on its way to becoming a city

The votes are in and residents of a small swath of southern Texas are in favor of Starbase becoming a real city. The newly-designated city is home to SpaceX and many of its employees, and it’s where [...]

2025-05-04

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 [...]

2025-05-04

Why Pigeons at Rest Are at the Center of Complexity Theory

When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement, and its inverse, have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science. [...]

2025-05-04

The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast

Those epic battle scenes in space are awesome—and physically impossible. But hey, it’s more fun this way! [...]