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The far-traveled space probe is once again transmitting usable data, after a glitch caused months of gibberish.

In the first procedure of its kind, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump.

Sales of vegan meat are trending downward in the US, with companies scrambling to win back customers.

Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building’s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of […]

Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places poorly served by polling stations.

In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town—and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear […]

An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run riot, this can kick the immune system into overdrive.

The world is already committed to warming that will undercut the global economy by 20 percent between now and 2050. That’s six times the price of limiting […]

Space law just got a little more complicated.

After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for its brain implant study is the Barrow Neurological Institute.

Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the […]

Before the dear old model could even power down, Boston Dynamics unleashed a stronger new Atlas robot that can move in ways us puny humans never can.

Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those who blame cloud seeding are misguided.

WIRED spoke with US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg about recent grants to fix ancient roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure before it’s […]

The untold, top-secret story of the British researchers who found the key to keeping humans alive underwater—and helped make D-Day a success.

Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.

Want one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US? Get used to being high.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for […]

Two satellites will engage in a “realistic threat response scenario” when Victus Haze gets underway.