Science

Multiple US states have logged record pollen counts this spring, with climate change likely to blame.

The elective medical industry is cashing in on plastic pollution fears, but the evidence of harm from microplastics is still deeply uncertain.

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.

In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that were collected from testicular tissue when he was a child.

Using environmental DNA analysis and traditional fishing techniques, researchers are seeking answers about the current population of axolotls in their natural habitat. The numbers are alarming.

An explosive crash between an oil tanker and a cargo ship in the North Sea could have huge consequences for ecologically and commercially crucial marine areas.

With his magnificent underwater images, Gerardo del Villar wants to rehabilitate the reputation of the ocean's great predators, inspire conservation, and encourage responsible ecotourism.

Three states have now passed legislation making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat.

After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold on the market?

Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.

Depending on who you ask, the internet weighs no more than a potato, a strawberry—or something much, much smaller. WIRED investigates.

As Donald Trump rages against renewable energy, solar power is being reimagined as a symbol of American “energy dominance.”

A sprawling Minnesota refinery wants to make low-carbon aviation fuel mainstream—but without government support experts believe the project could be “dead in the water.”

Chargers funded through the program were due to be just a small share of those opening this year. The longer-term effects aren’t yet clear.

A successful reflight of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster would be an important milestone for its Starship program.

The core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System is now integrated with the rocket’s twin boosters.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and Saturn.

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in the Milky Way that does not orbit a star.

Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.

Baseball season just started, and everyone’s talking about these crazy new bats. Will they change the game?

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications.

Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.

The company has partnered with Nvidia to develop “cognitive AI,” which it says will allow people with severe physical disabilities to have more natural interactions with the world around them.

The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.

The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—starting with a very furry mouse.

Biohacker Josie Zyner’s new company, Los Angeles Project, is creating a new generation of gene-edited pets.

In the face of seabeds becoming valuable real estate and corroding bombs polluting the oceans, teams are turning to technology to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem.

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the thick ice shells of bodies like Europa.

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?

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.

Reacquaint yourself with the good things in life by taking the time to appreciate them—and yes, it’s OK to rush through the bad stuff.

With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?

Forecasting is both art and science, reliant on both rigor and luck—but you can develop a mindset that anticipates and plans ahead.

Driving represented an interesting way for neuroscientists to study how rodents acquire new skills, and unexpectedly, rats had an intense motivation for their driving training.