NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sees Martian ‘Spiderwebs’ Up Close
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations — the low ridges seen here with hollows in between them — using its Mastcam on Sept. 26, 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS…
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NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
A day after NASA officials expressed optimism that they could be ready to launch the Artemis II mission around the Moon next month, the space agency’s administrator announced Saturday that…
How to switch from iPhone to Android (or vice versa)
At this point in the smartphone age, many of us have committed our loyalty to one phone brand—but is the default choice always the right one? Might there be a…
Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes. While building…
Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils
When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary…
Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?
Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions…
Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
One of the US government’s top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could cost the country valuable…
Man builds Tetris console inside cardboard box
There was a time when you had to travel to your nearest arcade or beg your parents for a Game Boy if you wanted to play Tetris. Today, the iconic,…
The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website
The Internet Archive—one of cyberspace’s most essential library projects—has achieved a feat that’s hard to even conceptualize. After nearly 30 years of painstaking work, the nonprofit has preserved its trillionth…
“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the…