2025-07-31

Catch the Perseids Meteor Shower This Week, and See Bright Fireballs in the Skies

If you're in a place where it's dark enough, you could see as many as 100 meteors per hour. [...]

2025-07-31

States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines

As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations. [...]

2025-07-31

August's Full Sturgeon Moon Lines Up With Perseids, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter

The full moon takes place a mere three days before the Perseids meteor shower peaks, and 11 days before the next planet parade. [...]

2025-07-31

The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis

The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations. [...]

2025-07-31

Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico

The disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in the country this year, with the virus continuing to spread rapidly. [...]

2025-07-30

The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments

Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are six times more at risk for the sleeping disorder. Now scientists are studying them in hopes of finding remedies beyond the CPAP machine. [...]

2025-07-30

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED. [...]

2025-07-30

Is Roman concrete more sustainable? It’s complicated.

Roman concrete produces as much, if not more, CO2 as modern concrete, fewer air pollutants. [...]

2025-07-30

Peacock feathers can emit laser beams

The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots. [...]