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Zoo animals got quiet, exhibited nighttime behavior dur...

During the eclipse, zoo animals across the U.S. displayed some unique behaviors,...

Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

H5N1 has infected cattle across the US and jumped from a mammal to a human for t...

Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?

To pull off this classic Hollywood stunt, you gotta know your physics!

Toronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods—With a Rain Tax

Outcry reached such a crescendo last week that the city canceled public hearings...

The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the d...

Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit

Two satellites will engage in a “realistic threat response scenario” when Victus...

Study maps "forever chemical" water contamination hotsp...

Study finds cancer-linked PFAS chemicals prevalent in drinking water sources acr...

Space station captures image of moon's shadow during so...

NASA flight engineers managed to photograph and videotape the moon's shadow on E...

Periodical cicadas will emerge this spring. Here's what...

Periodical cicadas aren't present every spring, but when they do emerge, they co...

Critics call out plastics industry over "fraud of plast...

Only 5 to 6% of plastic waste produced in the U.S. is actually recycled. A new r...

NASA seeks to reign in costs of Mars Sample Return mission

NASA said it agrees with an independent review board that concluded the project ...

The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind...

It Takes Guts to Fix Wind Turbines for a Living

Want one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US? Get used to being high.

The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change

Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help ...

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Di...

The untold, top-secret story of the British researchers who found the key to kee...

US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an $830 Million Pla...

WIRED spoke with US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg about recent grants ...