Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere 40 light-years away.Read More 

For decades, the screwworm was eliminated in North America, but containment efforts in Panama have failed. Now cattle smugglers are helping the parasite advance north.Read More 

The technology searches for buried objects by sending vibrations into the ground and measuring what comes back.Read More 

“I’m not trying to land on Mars,” Cost Plus Drugs founder Mark Cuban joked at WIRED’s The Big Interview event.Read More 

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India’s capital has turned to tech to fight its worst air pollution in eight years.Read More 

A Swedish startup wants to democratize stem cell treatments, but the finances of the unproven therapies raise ethical questions.Read More 

The two probes have left the solar system and are still collecting data from the interstellar environment—but their atomic hearts are growing weaker and weaker.Read More 

Scientists have discovered a new way of making chocolate that uses the entire cocoa pod to reduce waste and improve farmer revenue streams. But can chocolate made any other way taste as sweet?Read More 

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