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WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Reaching for the Stars
A small, dense object only 12 miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, ...
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Spiky Nebula
With the cloudy weather, views of the Universe have been hampered this past week. Here is a recently completed image of a colorful nebula that was captured before the winter weather arrived.
Brain Stimulation May Induce the Human Will to Persevere
A rare brain stimulation study suggests that a brain circuit known as the “salience network” contributes to differences in our ability to overcome challenges and cope with stress.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Saturn in Shadows
The shadows of Saturn's rings cast onto the planet appear as a thin band at the equator in this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
Absurd Creature of the Week: This Fly Hijacks an Ant’s Brain — Then Pops Its Head Off
The ant-decapitating fly burrows into ants, mind-controls them, and eventually severs their heads from the inside.
A Chimp’s Day in Court: Inside the Historic Demand for Nonhuman Rights
On the morning of December 2, a lawyer named Steve Wise and three other members of the Nonhuman Rights Project walked up the steps of a courthouse in Johnstown, New York and into the annals of history. In Wise's hands ...
WIRED’s Crazy Spherical Holiday Cocktails Are Powered by Science
It’s time for a wave of holiday parties, during which copious volumes of eggnog and holiday-themed cocktails will undoubtedly be poured. If you want your shindig to stand out, you should ditch that traditional booze, morph yourself into a cocktail ...
These Are Some of the Year’s Best Images of Earth From Space
I never get tired of looking at satellite imagery. There's always something new, amazing and surprising to see. This year, Digital Globe captured a slew of incredible scenes of our planet. I can only imagine how hard it was to narrow their ...
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Curiosity’s 100,000th Shot
Since landing on Mars in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has fired the laser on its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument more than 100,000 times at rock and soil targets up to about 23 feet (7 meters) away. This ...
Bugs and Spiders Disguised as Poop, Leaves, and Each Other
Insects and spiders are masters of disguise, easily hiding in plain sight while pretending to be plants, dung, or one another.
Cassini Captures Amazing High-Res Animation of Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon
NASA's Cassini mission has captured an incredible high-resolution animation of the psychedelic jet stream known as Saturn's Northern Hexagon.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Youngest X-Ray Binary
The youngest member of an important class of objects called X-ray binaries has been found using data from Chandra (blue) and the Australia Compact Telescope Array (purple). X-ray binaries consist of a dense object -- either a black hole or ...
Visit National Parks on Other Planets With These Fantastic Posters
Come see the ice geysers of Enceladus, the searing volcanoes of Io, or the secluded canyons of Mars! The wonders of the solar system have never looked so wonderful. That’s the sense you get from looking at this brilliant collection of ...
The Window: Piecing Together a Power Plant With Salt, the Sun, and 10,000 Mirrors
Outside Tonopah, Nevada, a construction team of 600 is working to get the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy project up and running by 2014. WIRED has an exclusive look inside the construction of this first-of-its-kind renewable-energy power plant.
Volcano Alert: A System to Warn Us About the Next Major Iceland Eruption
Remember how Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano shut down air traffic over the continent in 2010? A team of 100 scientists is working on getting ahead of the next major eruption.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Titan and Vortex
The sunlit edge of Titan's south polar vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon's unilluminated hazy atmosphere. The Cassini spacecraft images of the vortex led scientists to conclude that its clouds form at a much higher altitude ...
Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement May Be Linked
Theoretical physicists have forged a connection between the concept of entanglement — a mysterious quantum mechanical connection between two widely separated particles — and that of a wormhole, a hypothetical connection between black holes that serves as a shortcut through ...
How to Treat Depression When Psychiatrists Are Scarce
Psychiatrist Vikram Patel has a radical idea to make mental health counseling available to people in developing countries: train ordinary people in the basics of psychotherapy.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Polar Ring Galaxy
This new Hubble image shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 660, located around 45 million light-years away from us. NGC 660 is classified as a "polar ring galaxy", meaning that it has a belt of gas and stars around ...
The Truth About ISON: What Happened to the Comet Over Thanksgiving?
It's dead! It's alive! Did something survive? Here is the final truth on what happened with comet ISON over the last few days.
