The Long, Strange Life of the World’s Oldest Naked Mole Rat
These death-defying rodents do not age normally. Will their weird biology help extend human life spans, or are those ambitions a dead end? ..
These death-defying rodents do not age normally. Will their weird biology help extend human life spans, or are those ambitions a dead end? ..
Extreme weather is rapidly eroding the limestone caves where people first drew images 40,000 years ago. ..
The calculations work even in cases where it shouldn’t, like when the black holes are close in size. ..
The tiny jellies, which arrived sometime after Henry David Thoreau, are an example of how a non-native species can coexist peacefully with its new environment. ..
Catch up on the most important updates from this week. ..
Researchers only get a chance to study Brood X every 17 years. WIRED came for the ride—and got up close to thousands of hatching cicadas. ..
Nathan Copeland learned to move a robotic arm with his mind, but it was kind of slow. Then researchers gave him touch feedback. ..
“Overwintering” fires smolder under the snow, reigniting vegetation in the spring. New research shows the zombies may proliferate in a warmer world. ..
There’s the physics textbook way, and there’s the human way. ..
A new study shows that climate-driven sea level rise made the damage from Superstorm Sandy $8 billion worse around New York City. ..