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Education

The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

Maggie Chen

Space

Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space

Shigeyuki Hando

Numbers Game

A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work

Leila Sloman

Sleep

The Art of the Perfect Nap

Talar Moukhtarian

Climate Change

A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering

Ramin Skibba

Public Health

Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears

Angela Watercutter

Huge, If True

Evidence Grows That Dark Energy Changes Over Time

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica

Extended Break

After 9 Months in Space, Stranded NASA Astronauts Return Home

Javier Carbajal

Mind-Machine Meld

Synchron’s Brain-Computer Interface Now Has Nvidia’s AI

Emily Mullin

Infectious Disease

How to Protect Your Cats (and Backyard Chickens) From Bird Flu

Sassafras Patterdale

Sticker Shock

DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread

Kate Knibbs

Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table

Steve Nadis

Disaster

A Tanker Collision Threatens One of the UK’s Most Important Coastlines

Krysia Mazik, Magnus Johnson, Rodney Forster, Sue Hull

Whiplash

Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies

Kiley Price

Can’t Wrap Your Head Around Pi? Here’s a Cool Visual to Help

Rhett Allain

Code Red

How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon This Month

Jorge Garay

WIRED Health

Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines

João Medeiros

Sharp Focus

One Photographer’s Quest to Redefine the Shark

Geraldine Castro

Public Health

This Is How Measles Kills

Emily Mullin

Steak Out

Mississippi Passes Bill Banning Lab-Grown Meat

Matt Reynolds