Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about justice. Under their stewardship, the forests can thrive.

Climate change, misdiagnosed vulnerability, and ignorance of risk amplify extreme rainfall disasters.

Turkey takes the blame for you ending up as a crumpled mess on the couch, but the real culprits are elsewhere on your plate.

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new fossil discovery, technology, and scientific techniques.

How do these giant balloons work? What makes them both easier and more complicated than a normal-size balloon?

Radioisotopes are a vital resource for imaging patients’ organs and tumors—but these unstable elements also suffer from an unstable supply chain.

While we wait for scientists to come up with a miracle pill, we can take matters into our own hands with easy steps to ensure that life in old age isn’t also the end of living well.

The genome-editing technology can be supercharged by artificial intelligence—and the results are already being felt.

Parent power alone won’t ensure the next generation’s safety—politicians and tech firms must take steps, too.

The term “reducing emissions” has outlived its usefulness, a crutch to soften the blow that’s being exploited by greenwashers. Now it’s time to get real.

In 2025, extreme weather will drive more people from their homes. Governments have no plan. Where will they be welcome?

Elon Musk’s brain implant company is launching a new study to test whether its wireless device can control a robotic arm.

Rich countries have agreed to pay developing nations $300 billion a year to help them with their climate actions—but the agreement doesn’t say who specifically should contribute or how.

This famous probability theory was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong.

The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together at an ever-greater scale.

Donald Trump will have key levers he can use, but he faces limitations too.

In a nutshell, you can get the distances or the sizes right, but not both. Space is hard!

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are injectable medications—but a strange new market has emerged selling oral “compounded” versions online, despite a lack of evidence that they work.

A lab-grown alternative to fattened duck liver offers a controversial future for the cultivated meat industry: as a luxury product for the few.

Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proven that it’s “universally optimal.”

Driving represented an interesting way for neuroscientists to study how rodents acquire new skills, and unexpectedly, rats had an intense motivation for their driving training.

Two recent studies offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks of working on your feet.