The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet that has an atmosphere and sits within the habitable zone of a solar system. [...]

As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease

Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks. [...]

Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines. [...]

15 things people believed were true for centuries — and turned out to be completely wrong

These historical beliefs about science, medicine, and the universe stood unquestioned for centuries until new evidence proved every single one wrong [...]

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes. [...]

The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches

The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches. [...]

20 natural phenomena so strange they read like science fiction

Raining fish, immortal jellyfish, rivers that run uphill — phenomena that the natural world produces without apparent regard for what should be possible [...]

Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster

Michigan has been at the epicenter of the wildfire smoke and explosive diarrhea outbreaks. The progressive Democrat talks to WIRED about how he would tackle the forces behind them if he’s elected. [...]

Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii's final day

NatGeo's Pompeii: Out of Time fuses historical fact and imagination to bring city's last 24 hours to life. [...]