The Cost of Lightning | WIRED
It was the terrible prospect of lightning one day striking the historic windmill that troubled Andrew Farrell. A bolt five...
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Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk Mission
One of the most ambitious space tourism missions in history has launched, with the all-commercial crew set to hit a...
The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still...
Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves
You could say that this is exactly what Isaac Newton’s picture of gravity does—giving a relation between an object’s mass...
Why Polio Has Reemerged in Gaza
Why are most cases of polio vaccine-derived variants?Most cases of paralytic polio are now vaccine-derived due to the success of...
What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.The wide mowed lawns and leafy trees,...
Wildfires Are Contaminating Water Supplies
If you stood on the banks of the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado after the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire,...
Moon GPS Is Coming | WIRED
“I refer to LunaNet as the big umbrella,” Gramling says. “It is an architecture that defines the standards that are...
Ski Resorts Are Stockpiling Snow to Get Through Warm Winters
“We provide 100 percent snow security,” says Antti Lauslahti, Snow Secure’s CEO, proudly. “Any ski resort can start the season...
Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft
On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft.“I’ve got a...