Bird Flu Fears Stoke the Race for an mRNA Flu Vaccine
Researchers have been working on mRNA flu vaccines since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but we may get one for bird flu first.
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-hub-the-quest-to-make-an-mrna-vaccine-for-flu/
As Wildfires Rage, California’s Insurance Market Is in Crisis
Providers are offering fewer and fewer policies because of costlier climate-fueled fires, homeowners moving into riskier areas, and outdated regulation of the insurance industry.
https://www.wired.com/story/fire-insurance-wildfires-california-state-farm-allstate-liberty-mutual/
These New Biomaterials Can Help Decarbonize Fashion and Construction
Designers are imagining a future where bacteria powers both clothing and cement—and their ideas are coming to a shop near you.
https://www.wired.com/story/biomaterials-natsai-audrey-chieza-normal-phenomena-life-faber-futures/
These New Biomaterials Can Help Decarbonize Fashion and Construction
Designers are imagining a future where bacteria powers both clothing and cement—and their ideas are coming to a shop near you.
https://www.wired.com/story/biomaterials-natsai-audrey-chieza-normal-phenomena-life-faber-futures/
Hurricane Helene Shows Insurance Industry That No Homes Are Safe
Many homeowners in North Carolina won’t be insured against flooding or landslides due to the fragmented way in which disasters are covered.
Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified
Since launching in 2014, the world’s premier EV racing series has made huge technological leaps and gained hundreds of millions of fans. But CEO Jeff Dodds won’t rest until every new car is electric.
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-energy-tech-summit-jeff-dodds-formula-e/
Eight Scientists, a Billion Dollars, and the Moonshot Agency Trying to Make Britain Great Again
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?
https://www.wired.com/story/aria-moonshot-darpa-uk-britain-great-again/
23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?
The home DNA testing boom is over, and 23andMe is running out of options.
https://www.wired.com/story/is-23andme-dead-at-home-genetic-testing-anne-wojcicki/
The UK Has No Coal-Fired Power Plants for the First Time in 142 Years
With Monday's closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, coal is no longer being used to provide electricity in the UK.
https://www.wired.com/story/uk-no-coal-fired-power-plants-first-time-in-142-years/
Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the Semiconductor Industry
Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the global tech supply chain potentially starved of an ingredient vital for making microchips.
The Vagus Nerve’s Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense of Mind
Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure, and fear.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-our-longest-nerve-orchestrates-the-mind-body-connection-vagus/
An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night
A NASA inspector general report gives new details on a leak that has plagued the ISS for five years, and reveals that the agency considers it the highest-level risk.
https://www.wired.com/story/international-space-station-leak-getting-worse-nasa-up-at-night/
These Record-Breaking New Solar Panels Produce 60 Percent More Electricity
Experimental cells that combine silicon with a material called perovskite have broken the efficiency record for converting solar energy—and could eventually supercharge how we get electricity.
https://www.wired.com/story/tandem-solar-panel-cells-efficiency-energy/
A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras
The country faces a wave of claims after it repealed a law allowing for special economic zones. Chief among them is an American company looking to build a semi-autonomous “startup city” called Próspera.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-lawsuit-from-backers-of-a-startup-city-could-bankrupt-honduras/
The Titan Submersible Hearings End With Few Solid Answers. Here’s What Comes Next
The Coast Guard hearings into the OceanGate disaster are done. Next comes the full report—and any potential criminal investigations.
Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle Plastic by Vaporizing It
A new technique could prevent tons of waste in the future—if it can scale.
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-figured-out-how-to-recycle-plastic-by-vaporizing-it/
Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle Plastic by Vaporizing It
A new technique could prevent tons of waste in the future—if it can scale.
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-figured-out-how-to-recycle-plastic-by-vaporizing-it/
Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff Around
It seems crazy, but light actually exerts a physical force on objects. It could power a new generation of spacecraft for deep-space missions.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-solar-sails-can-work-to-propel-spacecraft/
Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff Around
It seems crazy, but light actually exerts a physical force on objects. It could power a new generation of spacecraft for deep-space missions.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-solar-sails-can-work-to-propel-spacecraft/
Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff Around
It seems crazy, but light actually exerts a physical force on objects. It could power a new generation of spacecraft for deep-space missions.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-solar-sails-can-work-to-propel-spacecraft/