What sneaky invisible forces enable these instruments to locate buried treasure?

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children.

The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners.

An ideological war over how tech giants can account for AI data center emissions has bled into the international arena.

As temperatures increase, trains and subways are becoming unendurable. Potential solutions include everything from cooling tunnels with water to painting rolling stock—but there’s no magic fix.

New Mexico City International Airport was canceled when only half built, and has since been flooded and restored into wetlands.

The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built.

The Atlantic CEO’s new book, The Running Ground, examines his complicated relationship with the sport. On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, he talks about the ways tech is helping him become a better runner.

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap.

AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they’re preparing for the future.

Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they might be onto something.

As millions confide in ChatGPT about their most intimate problems, these relationships are even stranger, more moving, and more insidious than we've imagined.

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.

Sean Duffy called out SpaceX for being “behind schedule” on a lunar lander and said he’d explore other options.

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health Organization—all related to a variety of common diseases globally.

By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.

Researchers confirmed that sperm accumulate mutations over the years, increasing the risk of transmitting diseases to offspring.

An archaeological mystery gets one step closer to being solved.

Government investigators are gathering data to confirm what exactly cracked the windshield of a 737 Max aircraft at above 30,000 feet.

A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data.

This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system for another 1,000 years.

This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.