How Covid Tracking Apps Are Pivoting for Commercial Profit
In the pandemic’s early days, government-backed public health apps acquired millions of users—a ready-made audience developers are eager to tap. ..
In the pandemic’s early days, government-backed public health apps acquired millions of users—a ready-made audience developers are eager to tap. ..
Hesitancy, bureaucracy, inequity, and the need to explain new formulas could slow down vaccine delivery to the last unprotected group. ..
Spraying aerosols and sucking carbon out of the air would bring down temperatures, yes. But the unintended consequences of geoengineering could be enormous. ..
Over 100 million women are estimated to use oral contraceptives, but studies on the pill’s mental health effects raise more questions than answers. ..
After three aborted attempts, engineers successfully completed a practice countdown that included filling the tanks with liquid oxygen and hydrogen. ..
Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors. ..
Remote sensing systems can struggle to spot high waters, especially in stormy weather or at night. Synthetic aperture radar offers a shot in the dark. ..
WIRED spoke with the agency’s former deputy administrator about how she architected a major shift to working with the fledging private space industry. ..
Climate change and natural variability are making this a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and hurricanes. ..
Inspired by an 18th-century naturalist, Christopher Edward Rodriguez set out to document our climate-changed planet with fresh eyes. ..