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Desalination Is Booming. But What About All That Toxic Brine?

The Water Crisis

Desalination Is Booming. But What About All That Toxic Brine?

Matt Simon

This year we will start discovering more new biological molecules

Biology

This year we will start discovering more new biological molecules

JOSHUA HOFFMAN

Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New Clues

minerals

Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New Clues

Rebecca Boyle

Alexa or Google Assistant? At CES, the battle moves into home robots

CES

Alexa or Google Assistant? At CES, the battle moves into home robots

Sophie Charara

Exoskeletons are the new weapon of choice for ambitious criminals

Robots

Exoskeletons are the new weapon of choice for ambitious criminals

Geoff Manaugh

Biofeedback from the brain will help students learn faster

Health

Biofeedback from the brain will help students learn faster

STANLEY YANG

A Flying Tesla? Sure! We Calculate the Power Demands

1.21 jigawatts

A Flying Tesla? Sure! We Calculate the Power Demands

Rhett Allain

A tech revolution will help farmers harvest sunshine with their crops

Environment

A tech revolution will help farmers harvest sunshine with their crops

Emma Bryce

The Insane Numbers Behind Cycling's Most Masochistic Race

pedal power

The Insane Numbers Behind Cycling's Most Masochistic Race

Robbie Gonzalez

The Exaggerated Promise of So-Called Unbiased Data Mining

WIRED Opinion

The Exaggerated Promise of So-Called Unbiased Data Mining

Gary Smith

A Strange Kind of Data Tracks the Weather—and Pirate Ships

space

A Strange Kind of Data Tracks the Weather—and Pirate Ships

Sarah Scoles

We may have finally spotted a star turning into a black hole

Space

We may have finally spotted a star turning into a black hole

Sanjana Varghese and Katia Moskvitch

A Magic Wand? Nope, Just Good Ol’ Fashioned Physics

presto

A Magic Wand? Nope, Just Good Ol’ Fashioned Physics

Rhett Allain

To Prevent Fires, One California Town Says 'Goat Fund Me'

Chew on This

To Prevent Fires, One California Town Says 'Goat Fund Me'

Matt Simon

Trump's Immigration Speech Won't Change Minds, Science Says

beliefs

Trump's Immigration Speech Won't Change Minds, Science Says

Emily Dreyfuss

We've found a mysterious energy burst that's repeating and is more powerful than millions of Suns

Space

We've found a mysterious energy burst that's repeating and is more powerful than millions of Suns

Jonathan O’Callaghan

Los Angeles Gets America's First Earthquake Warning App

tremors

Los Angeles Gets America's First Earthquake Warning App

Amanda Kolson Hurley

Ocean Cleanup's Plastic Catcher Is Busted. So What Now?

Oceanography

Ocean Cleanup's Plastic Catcher Is Busted. So What Now?

Matt Simon

How to get smart about the way we create, store and use energy

Energy

How to get smart about the way we create, store and use energy

Leanne Kemp

The Clever Clumsiness of a Robot Teaching Itself to Walk

Robotics

The Clever Clumsiness of a Robot Teaching Itself to Walk

Matt Simon