WIRED Science

Want to know which way the wind blows? IBM's new Deep Thunder tool combines the Weather Channel's data and forecasting with analytics for business applications.

Soon we'll have science to shape gun violence policy, and it's about damn time.

When a patient is shot by an AR-15, it looks like a grenade went off in there.

The National Science Foundation is right now undertaking a phenomenally risky and rare evacuation from the middle of the Antarctic ice sheet.

What is the three body problem and how do you solve it? Really, the only way to solve this problem is with a numerical calculation.

Biotechnology can work just fine in Silicon Valley, as long as companies know when to pump the brakes.

The 23rd satellite of the BeiDou satellite navigation constellation is in orbit. It's probably time to start paying attention.

What happens to a person who talks for hours on end?

About 1.4 billion years ago, the universe gave scientists a Christmas present.

Drought, sudden oak death, and bark beetle are turning the Golden State's forests into kindling.

As we mark the 25th anniversary of the Pinatubo eruptions, volcanoes in Colombia, Russia and Nicaragua keep rumbling.

If Zika were so dangerous that the Olympics should be canceled, no one would be traveling in and out of Zika-affected areas.

If they do, I'm pretty sure I heard Elon promise he's buying everyone a drink.

Everyone, including doctors, is confused about the patient privacy law.

Mockingbirds are master mimickers who evolved to copy the calls of their fellow birds. And sometimes car alarms.

Doctors worried the patient privacy law would prevent them from talking to families of victims.

That fish that attaches to sharks is called a remora, and while it may be a parasite, it's actually got a lot going for it.

Nobody cares how much water anybody else is using until there's not enough. That leads to some interesting legal predicaments.

A new series of papers has settled a long-standing question related to the popular game in which players seek patterned sets of three cards.

Advocates for plastic bag bans often neglect to ask what will replace plastic bags and what the environmental impact of that replacement will be.

You share the planet with creatures that can smell veins, see colors you can’t imagine, and communicate through their feet.

If you know anything about NASA, you know that missions just don't get launched that fast.

Shell spilled nearly 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last month, and you probably didn't even hear about it.

Carbon dioxide is a problem. And everyone knows the best thing to do with problems is bury them deep in the ground and forget they ever existed.