Some animals on Earth look so unusual that they appear almost alien. Their shapes, movements, and survival strategies challenge familiar ideas of what life should look like. Scientists study these ...
American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...
With the latest Star Trek series streaming on Paramount+, even Federation superfans might need a refresher on who's who and ...
Some of the greatest movies in cinema are celebrated as much for their special effects (SFX) and visual effects (VFX) as for ...
We asked 11 academic experts to share the book that challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.
A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...
Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...
Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Ryan Coogler, Yorgos Lanthimos, Joachim Trier and Chloé Zhalo — who have 22 Oscar nominations ...
At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...
Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...
A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...
Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...